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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Senator Issued Shocking Statements About 1%ers Protecting Their Wealth at Oligarch Confab [View all]Moostache
(11,282 posts)Sanders won't win the nomination, nor will he be the president we badly need, but these express attitudes from DINO's in the traditional power structure are going to eventually get what's coming to them.
The anger in the country is real.
The stoking of racism and hatred on the right has led to Trump. He is not a cause, he is a reflection.
This kind of disregard for the working class and the middle class and anyone not in the "club" (that 0.1% or richer 'club') is going to explode eventually. To see it coming from someone nominally on the "left" is a little more jolting.
Walls will not protect them.
Private paramilitary guards will not save them.
The day of reckoning begins the moment that there are too many people with nothing left to lose.
I said it a few days ago and I say it again today - the man with nothing to lose is the single greatest weapon of mass destruction humanity can create and the ruling class around the globe is creating 100's of millions of them and no one on their side seems to recognize the inevitable outcome of that strategy.
I'm pretty sure that Marie Antoinette and her ilk thought the party would never end too...just sayin'...