Thank you, Bernie!! -- Bernie Sanders Shares His Blueprint for Resisting Trump

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43. Some people will always see the world in terms of great men

in which citizens are insignificant compared to the political elite. It's a conservative worldview that has undergone a resurgence across the political spectrum in recent years. It's how they pretend FDR created the New Deal out of noblesse oblige while ignoring the mass mobilization that forced him to act. We've seen a remarkable outpouring of civic activism, but some are unable to appreciate the power of the populus to affect the world around them. Any non-reactionary reading of history demonstrates that social change has always been brought about by the people, and that those in power only act when their hands are forced. To rhetorically erase citizens from this victory and instead credit a member of the political elite shows a profound discomfort with popular mobilization, suggesting allegiance to a social hierarchy in which a few men rule over the population. It's not surprising that such a concept of "progressivism" is aimed at turning the clock back half a century to when that social order was even more rigid and hierarchical than it is today.