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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders in one word [View all]Gregorian
(23,867 posts)34. Great bit of history in summation.
I was there. I'm a bit young, but I have been wasted in Height Ashbury, and lived through the amazingly colorful 70's, part of it at UC Santa Cruz, which was insane. But something about the tone of that paper seems really ahead of it's time. I'm only catching on to Marxian economic theory now. But then that has been demonized and omitted from our society. It wasn't always that way though. I suppose more Americans remembered the more liberal side of America than it seems.
You can't force participation. And people often don't realize what is best for them. One rich guy on a hill with a town full of sick and tired. That's a lousy way to set things up.
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Americans gave away their power when they stopped participating in the process.
Gregorian
Oct 2015
#6
And you think this can be achieved, how? You think that a few people agitating, protesting,
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#28
You haven't listened to Sanders at all, have you? You just repeated what he has EMPHASIZED
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#35