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polichick

(37,152 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 04:36 PM Aug 2015

It's perfect that social media is empowering a democratic socialist...

We have needed a paradigm shift in the U.S. for a long time - profits over people and planet is no way to run a democracy. But in order to put people back into the equation, people have to engage - and that's what social media is all about.

Many of us are justifiably disgusted with American politics and corrupt institutions, and many of us only use social media to talk about pop culture and whatever we've had for lunch - that's okay. What's important now is that the infrastructure is there, the familiarity is there - the power is there.

The revolution that is forming around Bernie Sanders is actually a new "socialist" paradigm - one that uses social media to put people front and center in their own democracy.

Feel the Bern!

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