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In reply to the discussion: CNN gets owned Bernie sanders break up banks [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)concentration not just of wealth but also of risk and decisions about risk affects them.
Bernie will apprise Americans of the facts behind his plan to break up the banks.
Bernie will get voters behind him.
And in so doing, Bernie has a good chance to unseat some Republicans and change the make-up of Congress.
This is not just about breaking up big banks. It's about a political revolution, and by that, Bernie means educating and involving more and more Americans in putting their two cents in and helping decide just how the big banks are to be broken up.
The Attorney General could have broken up the banks under Obama -- by demanding the selling off or transferring of assets of the big banks that broke the law when AG (or other departments in the executive branch that were involved in wrenching the big money settlements from the banks) made the deals.
Obama's administration missed opportunities that his administration had to pressure the banks into divesting of some of their assets.
Bernie will hire lawyers who know how to do these things. Hillary will not. That is simply because Bernie wants to do it and Hillary does not.
This is the reality, folks. The big banks can be broken up in many ways. Bernie can do this and will do it if he is president.