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Offline libertybele

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Can Bernie Sanders Start A Revolution?
« on: June 27, 2015, 11:01:11 AM »
Well, after the majority voting in Barry twice, nothing would surprise me.  I think he may very well defeat the Clinton machine.  Sanders is 100%  correct in stating that "now is not the time for the same-old establishment politics" and I hope that the GOPe is carefully paying attention.


Will Bernie Sanders start a revolution?


Burlington, Vermont (CNN)It wouldn't be the first time a revolution sparked in New England changed the world.

But two and a half centuries after the insurrection that birthed America, the idea that a rumpled radical like 73-year-old Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders could overthrow the U.S. economic, health care and tax systems seems farfetched at best.

Yet that's exactly the task the fiery U.S. senator has set himself in a presidential campaign targeting billionaire "oligarchs" who he says have hijacked America's economy and inflicted misery on the middle class.

Sanders, an agitator who doesn't suffer fools, political opponents or journalists gladly, is testing whether the kind of populist, liberal agenda that gave him 75% approval ratings in his adopted home state can catch fire nationwide.

"Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small," Sanders told thousands of supporters in Burlington on Tuesday.

"Now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas," Sanders said in an implicit denunciation of the runaway front-runner for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton.

The obstacles Sanders faces in the presidential primary race, however, are immense.

Sanders has no viable countrywide political organization, so he must foment a grassroots uprising. His task is complicated by the fact that although he caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate, he has always been a political independent wary of formal party affiliations....

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/28/politics/bernie-sanders-presidential-campaign-revolution/
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