We the supporters of Bernie Sanders ARE NOT FRINGE.

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37. The last Democrat we had for president was Jimmy Carter.

Everything really started going downhill when Reagan got elected in 1980. He destroyed this country. The first shot of the Reagan revolution was busting the Air Traffic Controllers Union.

He also eliminated free tuition in the University of California system, which was an outstanding university system, because the educated kids went out and protested against the Vietnam War, and had sit ins against the war, and people noticed. Instead of acting like kids who were eager to go get killed in a civil war that was not any of our business. I learned this from Thom Hartmann on his radio show on Air America. The powers that be want an uneducated, easily manipulated populace.

General/President Eisenhower said that "America should never get involved in a war in Southeast Asia." Nobody listened to him. Nobody listened to the French imperialists, which Vietnamese forces had driven out.

The young people don't know what a real populist Democrat looks like, because we haven't had a true populist since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was a member of the wealthy elite but knew that he had to enact labor laws and put people to work because they were desperate and hungry and he averted a revolution.

Bernie is like FDR plus free college and universal health care and bringing back proper regulation of Wall Street, including reinstating Glass-Steagall.

Read the campaign platform of Norman Thomas in 1932. Most of it was stolen by FDR to avert a violent revolution in the U.S., AFTER FDR got elected. He did not say he would do any of this before he got into office. I know this because my dad was a union organizer in the bad old days of the 1930s when there were no labor laws and no worker protections.

If you showed up on a picket line at Crown Central Petroleum on the Houston Ship Channel, you got your head busted open, hauled off to jail, and had to post $100 bond. Nobody had $100, which was a good months' salary in the 1930s, and so the wife of the only labor lawyer in town, Sophie Mandell, had to bail everyone out of jail.

My parents lived through the depression and told me how desperate people were. They also told me about the Bonus Army, which was a bunch of WW I veterans who marched and camped in Washington to get the bonuses for service they were promised.