While over 60% of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck,

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19. He has. Many times. Bernie has been labeled a radical socialist for a reason.

Wall Street fears him. So do the oligarchs.

But consider this NYT article (hope you don't get a paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20221009&instance_id=74163&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=95472539&segment_id=109477&user_id=122c14754c0ebb2d655cb1433556f337

And if the link above doesn't work, try this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html

It is about how the capitalist cancer has over half privatized Medicare, and has systematically defrauded the government, and about how its regulatory body is basically a revolving door for people in that industry.

Bottom line, is we are getting ripped off, and we need to elect a bunch MORE Bernies, AOCs, Katie Porters and Elizabeth Warrens, because for every one of them you have a Manchin, a Sinema, or 50 Republican Senators that routinely filibuster EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF LEGISLATION THAT ATTEMPTS TO HELP AMERICANS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Bernie cannot do it alone, and I know you know this. He has written reams of legislation and he has done a pretty darned good job of getting support in Congress, but bottom line, the Wall Street greed-lizards and the billionaire parasites have billions of dollars in corporate lobby money lined up against Bernie.

I know you know this.

Bernie HAS been doing his job. And a really good one at that. He singlehandedly moved the Overton window to where about 70% of us like the idea of Medicare for all Americans. According to Morning Consult, 55% of voters support Medicare for All, while 32%, including 62% of Republicans, oppose the single-payer plan. About 68% support a public option. THAT is all Bernie.

See, a republic like ours requires us to do some work - keep ourselves informed, abreast of issues, be active in our local politics, and elect people who will do what is in our best interest, not Wall Street's. This is why the 1971 Powell Manifesto (written as a memo at the request of the US Chamber of Commerce) laid out the plan for the whole corporate-funded right-wing propaganda apparatus that has been braying its constant drumbeat (the government is bad, we need to privatize, deregulate, cut taxes, and give all power except the common defense to state governments) since the snake Ronald Reagan allowed the Fairness Doctrine to die back in 1987. Since then.

This is why Bernie can't do it alone. He needs us, and we need to inform ourselves about the issues, the way government works at all levels and vote, vote, vote.