2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I don't think I want your revolution [View all]Ron Green
(9,822 posts)President Bernie Sanders would be one small but very important first step in turning this thing around, turning away from Empire and toward a real community based in human values rather than profit and exploitation.
Read David Korten, Gar Alperovitz, Gus Speth, Wendell Berry, Pope Francis, T.R. Reid, Naomi Klein, Charles Marohn - the list goes on - these thinkers have written extensively about exactly what we must do to continue human life on this planet, and NONE OF IT includes the kind of "business as usual" that your candidate or any of the Republicans will allow.
The one thing we would have in President Bernie Sanders is a message from the White House that the oligarchy is no longer in unexamined control of our political economy. As I said above, his election is just a first step, and it's not just about, as you say, "the whole spectrum of our party." it's about the whole spectrum of ALL THE PEOPLE, and it's up to them, not Bernie Sanders, to make this shift happen.
Look, I get that you want Hillary and that's fine, but please don't post bullshit about a "revolution" you don't understand.