Bernie Sanders: A nation in which...
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Or maybe it's a few thousand.
their children's children. More like India, China. Barring any calamity, natural or human-precipitated
That was true for the Civil War. Today, however, no one is going to invade and close the plantations when the armies all work for them.
I'd walk with you anytime. But such a statement might lead people to think there is no chance that this system isn't self-perpetuating, and it is, perhaps more so now than at any time in history, with a far better-schooled, and predictable, group of subjects.
Different players over time, certainly, and those at the top won't always so white, but if anyone thinks for a minute that when we lose the current oligarchs that their trained replacements aren't going to be the ones that killed them (for being too soft) and took over to find new paths to profit, they are thinking wrongly. 
It could endure, and that bothers me more than thinking it might just die of unrestrained cannibalism. Us being the menu.
I know, you are saying you don't think it should. But it could just get more vile.
Thank you, Bernie! You are greatly appreciated.
