2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This is why I believe Bernie Sanders will prevail over Hillary Clinton as our next president: [View all]Cal33
(7,018 posts)short period of time? Just look at the topics they talked about and are still talking about:
They are issues that affect Americans in the present, or past issues that are still affecting
Americans today - one way or another. In one short sentence: The ways in which
Americans have been used and abused by the corporate world.
There is a good deal of anger and rage -- much of it subconscious -- in the guts of
Americans because they have been used and abused by Big Business corporations.
Elizabeth and Bernie are talking about these issues. This helps to bring into awareness
the abuse they have been or are still going through, and the resultant anger and rage
that many people do not even know was present in them. What they experience is a
constant and steady unhappiness, uneasiness and general dissatisfaction, for which they
often do not know the cause. In talking about these issues Elizabeth and Bernie make
them more aware of that anger and its cause, and this brings about some release, which
makes them feel good.
That, I think, is one main reason for the ability of Elizabeth and Bernie to draw such
crowds wherever they speak. The issues they talk about hit right home!