Every word I have heard from Bernie Sanders

[DirkGently]

101. He's no more radical than they, for sure.

Somehow all of America has been convinced that the liberalism that worked for everyone, that in many cases was not even seriously questioned because it was to clearly just the right thing to do, is now some kind of wacky alien thinking impossible to contemplate.

In the meantime, mainstream Republicans routinely suggest and even try to implement things like abolishing the IRS, eliminating all right to abortion, trying to start a war with Iran, or shutting down the federal government to put a stop to ... healthcare.

Our frame of reference is gigantically off. Normal grownup countries don't snicker at ideas like protecting labor or worker pensions or building infrastructure. They don't spend their time "debating" whether science about evolution or science about climate, or whether the earth has maybe only been a few thousand years.

We have to fight for the idea that banks can't just gamble with everyone's money, take it, then extort whatever loss THEY might have suffered in the process back out of the taxpayers. And we're not winning that fight.

It's just possible the pendulum is finally ready to swing back a little closer to reality, but in the meantime it's interesting to see people snickering at the idea that anything contradictory to the mountains of hyper-capitalist nonsense, which nobody actually believes anyway, is just too impossible to contemplate.

It is possible. The insanity bubble just might burst. History will not remember Bernie Sanders-type ideas as amusingly radical. It will wonder how the loopy, trickle-down, frack the earth, "center-right" nonsense that comprises our present status quo got so radical, and why it took so long for us to do anything about it.