I'm ready for a revolution

[BainsBane]

213. Not according to your fellow Bernie supporters here

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They have insisted it's just awful, "low" of me to "demonize the rich." It turns out that rich people aren't bad at all, and that income inequality isn't really a problem, as long as the people who hold the wealth are dedicated to promoting Bernie's career. It turns out all Bernie's rhetoric about the 99 vs. the 1 percent wasn't supposed to be taken seriously. The only division is about those who support Bernie and those who don't. Sarandon's millions, no problem. The enemies are not the wealthy or banks but those who have the audacity to to exercise their votes as they see fit rather than following the command of self entitled "progressives" certain that they are superior to the majority of the electorate, 2.5 million more of which have voted for Clinton. For those who have already cast their votes in primaries or their preferences in caucuses, the choice now is between Clinton and Trump. Sarandon make her choice clear. The question is whether you too want to see the lives of ordinary Americans get worse in hope that a "revolution" will arise in order to satisfy the political fantasies of nitwits like Sarandon, someone who imagines she can sit in her 6 multimillion dollar homes and call for a revolution that will leave her unscathed.

The political elite does not "provide you with a revolution." A revolution is a social movement in which the people rise up and forcibly change the social order. It is violent and bloody, something people do when they have no other option. It isn't a cheap campaign slogan. Bernie's career, his effort to be installed as head of the capitalist state, is not a "revolution." It's a political campaign. Nothing more.

The fact is Clinton raises taxes on the wealthy and upper-middle class. Trump--whom Sarandon has decided she prefers to Clinton-- and what this thread is about, lowers them substantially. It's getting to the point where this tendency of people like you have to completely make up what you decide Clinton stands for without making even a small effort to inform yourselves on her actual proposals can no longer be excused as anything but a willful effort to promote the GOP. You and countless others make one allegation after another without any effort to provide evidence (eg. policy positions) to substantiate your claims because the fact is you don't care what the truth is. That you despise Clinton is enough, so you feel entirely justified in inventing one false claim after another in order to demonize her.

These are her actual positions. It wouldn't take more than 15 minutes to familiarize yourself with her actual proposals. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/ Or you could try this and enter in various incomes. http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/3/25/11293258/tax-plan-calculator-2016
Or if you really want to do something radical, consult an independent source that seeks to inform rather than deliberately mislead the public into doing the bidding of the GOP. http://taxfoundation.org/blog/comparison-presidential-tax-plans-and-their-economic-effects

Whatever you decide to do is your problem. You get no passes for being mistaken. You have had months and months to inform yourself. At this point the misrepresentation is deliberate and in perpetuating it you serve the GOP and the very corporations and 1 percent you pretend to oppose.

Save your bumper sticker slogans for someone gullible enough to believe them. That sure as hell isn't me. I couldn't lose enough brain cells to buy that crap.