2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I see Hillary winning at the end [View all]mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)americans are stupid? Not really. Have they been lied to for most of my life? Certainly.
The New Deal was certainly not popular with the PTB. Roosevelt had the support of millions of real people and made it work. Social Security, Medicare, many other things were not popular with the PTB but determined people made them work.
It makes no sense to be cynical if you want change. Certainly there are those who would have you believe that nothing can be done. NOthing will changed.
Sanders, etc., stand for "ahem" hope and change and also "change you can believe in." There are a lot of us out here that look at this as the last chance for America.
We look around at the political, and moral, standards of the ruling class and are not pleased.
That is why the slogan making the rounds is "fuck this shit."
We may not win tomorrow but we will not stop.