What this election is really about is democracy

[Rebkeh]

From Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/clinton-and-krugman-hardheaded-realism-amounts-protecting-interests-richest-people

Therefore, unless you already are an economic elite, you have no ("near zero&quot influence over government policy, which is the textbook definition of a plutocracy.

How do we influence such a system?

By banging away from the outside; by forming mass movements with mass demonstrations and insurgency campaigns like the one Sanders is running. He is absolutely correct to assert that we need a "political revolution" to modify and end rule by the "billionaire class."

In fact, there is no other way. All the careful policy crafting and intellectual arguments are no match for dominance of the super-rich over politics. The ties that bind Washington, Wall Street and corporate elites will not break, let alone bend, unless faced with a severe popular uprising. Occupy Wall Street did more to put runaway inequality on the political map than did either Clinton or Obama.

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Hillary, however, is betting that she can win over voters by claiming she's the practical one, not the ineffectual dreamer—that she can get things done. But she, along with the median voter, has no chance of influencing policy unless we are mobilized to pressure the political system from the outside as well. She's been an insider for so long she would rather talk quietly with her many elite contacts than threaten them with a mass mobilization. And let's face it: she is one of them. Yes, more liberal, but still a part of those elite structures.

[floriduck]

1. Spot on. Thanks Rebkeh. nm

[ypsfonos]

2. Bernie knows

and is educating everyone.