2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Polls, both recent and in the past several months, show that the majority of Americans prefer [View all]PatrickforO
(14,558 posts)addressing issues Americans actually care about instead of the establishment pabulum we usually are fed. The establishment fears him because his policies will raise taxes on big corporations and billionaires and devote that revenue to programs that actually make Americans' lives better as opposed to merely funneling more money into the forever war we have going. Not to mention the war on drugs, privatized prisons and all the rest of the capitalist cancers that beset our society.
Bernie is talking economic justice, Lucinda, and that makes Wall Street and the MIC fearful.
Correction: I should point out that it isn't just Bernie. By himself, Wall Street and the MIC would just laugh. But with millions of supporters ready to write, email, petition and march for better policies, you bet they're quaking in their expensive boots.
The only thing the oligarchs have ever feared is...US.