Sorry, Bernie but the Democrats know whose side they are on and whose side they have always been on

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307. It is propaganda, or an opinion piece that had a very deep slant. That's not a stretch.

Yes, a President usually comes from a comparatively wealthy, educated, successfully professional background. If you want to equate and damn that as "being cozy with the corporate class" then you aren't going to find many qualified presidential candidates that are qualified.

None of the Kennedys, for example.

Yelling and finger wagging at the wealthy isn't something I require to find a president competent and ready to serve the whole public. I do however expect them to at least be able to sit at the table with all the "classes" of our society.

I never saw Obama as a firebrand. I think that label was pasted onto him by many on the left. You don't organize communities as a firebrand - you reach across divides. A president, by definition must move towards the center (not land in it) in order to function as a president of both left and right.

The activist has a different timeline, measure of success and messaging tools than a politician. That is why some people are far more effective politicians than activists, and vice versa.