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19. Bernie is a gamechanger K&R

The reason I believe Bernie's message resonates is because he's still one of us and he feels our pain and he can articulate it. I don't know if it's because he lives in liberal VT, but you know he doesn't live in the bubble that the other 1%ers inhabit. He seems not to want to either. He talks to people like us everyday, it's obvious he still cares after the meeting is over. He probably gets his hair cut at the local barber shop with the cops, mechanics and electricians. I see him as probably the last chance we'll have to elect someone who rejects the insiders' club and what it takes to belong to it. He'd be a civil servant president.

When Hillary made the abuela faux pas last year, she was taken aback by the strong reaction and the rejection of her overture stung her. You can just tell she'd never sit in the kitchen with anybody's abuela. She's a wealthy grandmother, but never has been and never will be an abuela. She might hire one. Likewise, Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Allbright are astounded by our rejection of Hillary. Here they are sending out one of their own BFFs to be our president and they are gobsmacked that we can't identify with her and don't really want to try. After they get what they want, they'll go back to their gated communities and forget us. No thanks. No sale.

BTW, I've worked with lawyers and oh boy are they clubby, it's good they kept their word about the house.