How is Bernie

[libdem4life]

47. If he can pull off getting 1 million young folks/and old too, to DC and rally/march,

he'll shake both parties to the core, IMO. He may not have the personality, charisma and youth of Obama, but he has the inner depth and maturity and political record that Obama didn't have.

Nor do I mean that as a criticism...just a comparison. Because that's how I see Obama now. He didn't start out so great, but he learned and matured and will likely go down as one of our greatest Presidents.

Let me pose some potentials...purely from an academic understanding:

Free college education: That was a fact of life before Reagan in California. I would not have a degree today if not for that. All I had to do was teach school, and each year a portion of my last 2 years loans were forgiven. Community College was free. If he could somehow attach this to the Infrastructure Works Program/VA bills/1st time student programs, reinstate the Pell Grants it would perhaps work. I'm not a policy person. It will piss the banks off royally, however, what with their fat profits from poor students.

Speaking of Banks ... Break up the Big Banks: Glass Steagal reinstated...and his lack of fear of the bullying because he is not beholden to one of them. That's why Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan Chase) is already crying Foul...he knows Bernie means it and he's afraid Hillary might actually mean what she just changed her mind to say...Break 'em up.

Increase taxes (i don't think to Ike's time) but many of the .01% have already said it would not matter if their taxes were raised. Raise the limit on SS taxes 5 years to shore up/not gut/that system. Also, he'll go after the "hidden funds" via the IRS or any other way possible. There are way more than enough tax dodgers...some of whom might get a conscience along the way with the possibility of getting outed, if nothing else. It's not that this can't be done, it's that no one has had the courage to even seriously try...make it public...etc.

Single Pay health care: Saves the economy money...indeed it does. As he said, we have the worst health care at the highest cost. We already have the format...Medicare...in 4-8 years, it's doable. This will piss off the insurance people.

No PACs, well, I think it has yet to be seen what can be done without selling the middle class out. Will there be some major donors come to the table? I think so.

JMO, but it Can Be Done. It will take Faith, Works and Commitment on the part of a lot of people. People who have may not have been "in the system" before...like Obama's group. That's how revolutions are started...peaceful and powerful...working within the system we already have.

(Yahoo News had him at the top of the page and a side video of his Couric Interview. That's getting a bit mainstream)