This is important - How Populists like Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Racism

From The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/how-populists-like-bernie-sanders-should-talk-about-racism/

Have you guys seen this? (Universal Income)

Switzerland will be the first country in the world to vote on having a national wage of £1,700 a month

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/switzerland-will-be-the-first-country-in-the-world-to-vote-on-having-a-national-wage-of-1700-a-month-a6843666.html

How Populists Like Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Racism

It's long but a must-read.

(I can't get an excerpt for some reason)

http://www.thenation.com/article/how-populists-like-bernie-sanders-should-talk-about-racism/

How Populists Like Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Racism

It's long but a must-read.

(I can't get an excerpt for some reason)

http://www.thenation.com/article/how-populists-like-bernie-sanders-should-talk-about-racism/

Ode to Americans

My "together" post. #notmeus

Ode to Americans

Because you believe your prosperity depends on my poverty,
Your hope depends on my hopelessness.
Because you behave as if your wellness depends on my illness,
Your joy depends on my despair.
Because your life of privilege depends on my life of inequality,
Your sense of security depends on my lack of it.
Because you were taught that your life matters more,
My life is perceived to matter less.
Because your power depends on my powerlessness,
Empathy cannot find its way in.

But I know.
I remember a well-known “secret,”
That zero-sum is a mirage.
Because I am you,
You are me.
My life is tied up in yours.

If only you could bother to seek,
To seek through eyes of love rather than eyes that fear.
With curiosity instead of contempt,
With clarity instead of confusion.
With courage instead of indifference.

Your success need not depend on my failure.
Your pleasure need not depend on my pain.
A plus for one need not depend on loss for another,
Because a loss for one is a loss for all.

You say the fittest survive - alone,
But I know better.
I know the cooperative thrive - together.

Bernie Sanders is calling for a political revolution — while the 'pragmatists' insist on surrender

What this election is really about is democracy

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.

Is CNNgo the only way to watch online?

If so, I'm out. I'll watch Twitter or if a thread starts here.

Get Bernie on 60 Minutes

From Jesus worshipping atheist at Daily Kos

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1474983

There’s an effort underway to get Bernie on 60 minutes. Take a minute to send this in. Select 60 Minutes from the drop down. Message: I would like to see Bernie Sanders on 60 minutes.

audienceservices.cbs.com/...

Meanwhile, the Bernie event in Decorah, IA today

mobile.twitter.com/...


Link: http://audienceservices.cbs.com/feedback/feedback.htm

To see the tweet, follow the first link.

An interesting way of looking at the Democratic Party this primary season