Worth Noting

[Tom Rinaldo]

When national Republicans with their well funded think tanks, SuperPacs, and right wing media networks, call for the privatization of public schools and public toll roads, as well as prisons, municipal water districts, the Veterans Administration, and Social Security, while lowering taxes even further, they are simply advancing possible cures for the woes they say ail America in the public market place of ideas. Nothing radical about them in the slightest, they are all said to represent pragmatic and doable initiatives worthy of full consideration.

When Bernie Sanders talks about building on the models of Social Security and Medicare, of reinvesting in the public infrastructure, of expanding free public education, of restoring the tax rates on the wealthiest Americans to levels well below those in place under Republican President Eisenhower, and of fulfilling the vision for America laid out by the man historians agree was the greatest American President (FDR) since at least Abe Lincoln, this it is said is just pie in the sky. Because everyone knows that Sanders doesn't represent viable views, he is well outside of the American mainstream, he is RADICAL

[LWolf]

1. Yes.

And when neo-liberal DEMOCRATS with their well funded think tanks, SuperPacs, and corporate media networks, call for the privatization of public schools and public toll roads, as well as prisons, municipal water districts, the Veterans Administration, and Social Security, while lowering taxes even further, they are simply advancing possible cures for the woes they say ail America in the public market place of ideas. Nothing radical about them in the slightest, they are all said to represent pragmatic and doable initiatives worthy of full consideration.

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. Indeed. That too is well worth noting!

The fact that the public never really climbed aboard our rightward turning ship of state is never noted however. How could it be if no one like Bernie Sanders has been allowed to be taken seriously on a national stage until the response to his current election campaign forced the positions he espouses to be voiced in the national debate.

[LWolf]

3. And THAT

is why his campaign is so important, right in this moment in time.

[Jefferson23]

4. +1. n/t

[cali]

5. Absolutely. Reverting to the gold standard? Not radical.

Axing the EPA? Nope, not radical. Eliminating HUD, the Departments of Education and Commerce?. Not radical. Expanding Social Security? Better grab the smelling salts.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. Big Scary Socialist - Not

Yup the literally radical policies are being pushed everyday with nary a peep from the current establishment

Bernie is advocating common sense solutions for the problems facing real Americans. A case could be made for industrial strength socialism but Bernie isn't making that case. No nationalizing the banks - just breaking up the trusts. It's more akin to reforms made by Teddy Roosevelt when the greed of the Super Wealthy again knew no bounds.

What Bernie is campaigning for are the type things people in most advanced democracies take for granted.