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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Names Names [View all]tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)64. Bernie running for President?
Would never work. Not because he's not qualified or wouldn't be popular, it's that he is not in the Beltway corporate owned club...and as an extension of this club, the corporate owned media would just ignore him and he would never gain traction in an election. If by some way he were able to gain traction, the media would then go to their next tactic, which is to attack with slander, defamation and/or just plain ostracizing the candidate that isn't part of the club. Aside, the big money PTB would never allow such a progressive to get anywhere close to sniffing the WH. It's a game that we are all being fed via the kabuki theater of our election process.
Bernie does us a whole lot more good being right where he is as a senior senator.
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Becoming? It always has been. But the time has finally come for the people to rule.
reformist2
Apr 2013
#1
That'll never happen, but the least the rich bastards could do is toss us crumbs. nt
valerief
Apr 2013
#7
Yeah, they could have given a million to each American hoping to buy us off. Bigger game afoot here.
freshwest
Apr 2013
#34
We Agree Bernie - However We No Longer Have The Power (Citizens United) Or The Will To Change
cantbeserious
Apr 2013
#2
Don't See That Happening - Which Means That Citizens United Has Had The Intended Effect
cantbeserious
Apr 2013
#48
We organize.* Demand of every candidate for every office from dog-catcher to president....
lastlib
Apr 2013
#62
"Do we have the will?" Of course we dont if you are including the American people.
rhett o rick
Apr 2013
#63
Bernie makes a lot of sense.... Let's overturn that discriminatory law that favors speech for
midnight
Apr 2013
#3
Thanks... I could not get the link to let me watch on demand so I queued it to first place....
midnight
Apr 2013
#31
It's the people's fault too. They vote for people who lie to them often simply because of the letter
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#10
Sometimes you don't know you are being lied to. Sometimes you don't know someone will...
L0oniX
Apr 2013
#17
their most important tool is talk radio but the dems and the left ignore it. the stoprush boycott is
certainot
Apr 2013
#12
How about "if properly implemented, they're harder to defraud, and more accurate"?
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2013
#68
Amend the Constitution to add "natural" before each instance of the word "person"
Occulus
Apr 2013
#81
What makes you think the Democratic party as a whole even *wants* a veto proof majority?
Fumesucker
Apr 2013
#30
Eh, my theory handily explains the Democratic Senate not reforming the filibuster
Fumesucker
Apr 2013
#37
Yeah, well it's a weak majority in the Senate and I don't think it proves anything.
xtraxritical
Apr 2013
#38
More important than spending caps on wealthy donors, is public finance of poor candidates.
reformist2
Apr 2013
#18
Thank you so much for not being afraid to speak out, Bernie. Obviously you don't have an owner
judesedit
Apr 2013
#19
Things would be so much better if we could take people like Bernie Sanders, Alan Grayson,
AndyA
Apr 2013
#25
Good keynote speech right there. Hopefully at the next DNC. If the party won't....
Smarmie Doofus
Apr 2013
#40
i don't see anything new -- the rockefellers did a lot of political and quasi-political spending
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#66
i'm saying the monied class has always run the country. who did you think ran it?
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#86