Sanders: We need to push the Democratic Party to once again be the party of the people

[HughBeaumont]

10. We need gobs of money and influence.

Sorry to say, but the "old college try" just isn't working in the face of evil owning damned near everything . . . including the narratives (and conspiracy theories) that middle America swallows like comfort food at a Cracker Barrel.

When you have at least 3-4 channels on cable news that are pushing blatant Republican politics in such a way that the far right gets mainstreamed, that's just hard to fight. CNBC, for example, is loving the fact that they can be unchained and even MORE right-skewered than ever now that their man is in.

Not only that, I don't want to hear any stitch of claptrap that America doesn't have two sets of standards when it comes to Democratic politicians vs Republican politicians. E.G. - How is it that Ted Strickland was held almost completely responsible for Bewsh 43's sewer of an economy that affected 49 other states as WELL as Ohio, but Mike Pence is praised for cutting a taxpayer-funded deal for Carrier when he made NO effort to save the initial jobs that got shipped to cheap-labor climes to begin with in 2014? Ted Strickland lost big to Rob Portman, a senator who has been nothing but a Republican rubberstamp to every bad life-destroying issue put on his desk.

There is no "understanding" why a substantial portion of America simply likes Republicans more than they do Democrats even after Reagan and the Two Bushes and all of the ruin they caused.

Sometimes, people need to have a damned mirror held up to them to see just who it is that's killing them.