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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders’ Revolution is really just common sense. Sadly, that HAS become Revolutionary.
https://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/bernie-sanders-revolution-is-really-just-common-sense-sadly-that-has-become-revolutionary/Source info at the link.
Yes, hes calling his campaign a revolution, but if you look at Senator Sanders positions, its kinda hard to find anything all that radical:
* Clean up Washington by getting bribes (AKA money) out of politics;
* Fix the tax code so that everyone pays their fair share. Including people like corporations;
* Adjust the minimum wage for inflation so it works as originally intended;
* Work to protect our national security by addressing climate change and its impacts;
and other sensible policies like those.
Even though he calls himself a Democratic Socialist, his ideas are actually quite mainstream if you ask regular folks instead of Pundits, Polticians and Plutocrats. Cmon, who in the real world seriously objects to obeying the law, being able to pay your bills, having insurance and living in a reasonably safe place? Even Republican voters profess to hold such values, ferchrissakes, if they dont hear that scaryscaryscary word Socialist. All Bernies saying is lets do things the way we are supposed to already be doing them.
It is truly sad that if we are to get some common sense back into American politics, we WILL, in fact, have to have a revolution at the ballot box. Its sad, depressing, and disgusting that things like fighting corruption, fair tax policy, equal protection under the law, and requiring the government to honor its obligations are revolutionary, but they are. They have become ever more revolutionary over the past few decades, as Teapublicans and Vichy Dems have dragged us down the slimy slope of Supply-side economics and Teavangelical social policies into the trickle-down sewage lagoon that is contemporary America.
A Revolution of Common Sense? Sign this blogger up. See you all at the polls.
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Bernie Sanders’ Revolution is really just common sense. Sadly, that HAS become Revolutionary. (Original Post)
riqster
May 2015
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Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)1. common sense isnt always a good thing to follow
riqster
(13,986 posts)5. So, which of Bernie's policies do you object to?
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)2. rec
Takes a revolution to have a Democratic candidate be a Democrat. No, it took a Democratic Socialist to be a Democrat. This is how right wing the US is now.
riqster
(13,986 posts)4. This.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)3. Bernie Sanders' "Revolution" starts NOW!
riqster
(13,986 posts)6. I'm on board.
think
(11,641 posts)8. K&R! We need to start using COMMON SENSE once again in America.
riqster
(13,986 posts)9. Damn skippy. Make it common once again.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)10. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)12. count me in
k&R
riqster
(13,986 posts)13. Good on you!
daleanime
(17,796 posts)14. K&R.....
zeemike
(18,998 posts)15. I can only think of Orwell's quote
In times of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
And common sense is the enemy of deceit.
I'm in too.
riqster
(13,986 posts)21. Thank you.