Robert Reich: Why We Must Try

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35089-why-we-must-try

Instead of “Yes we can,” many Democrats have adopted a new slogan this election year: “We shouldn’t even try.”

We shouldn’t try for single-payer system, they say. We’ll be lucky if we prevent Republicans from repealing Obamacare.

We shouldn’t try for a $15 an hour minimum wage. The best we can do is $12 an hour.

We shouldn’t try to restore the Glass-Steagall Act that used to separate investment and commercial banking, or bust up the biggest banks. We’ll be lucky to stop Republicans from repealing Dodd-Frank.

We shouldn’t try for free public higher education. As it is, Republicans are out to cut all federal education spending.

We shouldn’t try to tax carbon or speculative trades on Wall Street, or raise taxes on the wealthy. We’ll be fortunate to just maintain the taxes already in place.

Most of all, we shouldn’t even try to get big money out of politics. We’ll be lucky to round up enough wealthy people to back Democratic candidates.

“We-shouldn’t-even-try” Democrats think it’s foolish to aim for fundamental change – pie-in-the-sky, impractical, silly, naïve, quixotic. Not in the cards. No way we can.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. Bernie is giving us hope

that we CAN change things, for the better.

I have never felt this way about a presidential candidate since 1968. Even when Bill Clinton won the nomination in 1992, and I was elated that an Arkansan was finally a Democratic competitor for the presidency.

I believe that Bernie is this generation's RFK.

Go Bernie!

[LiberalElite]

2. Me too nt