Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: So I guess we got the meme [View all]ananda
(28,856 posts)I voted for Obama twice, and I did realize that he was from the DLC, Rahm Emanuel school of politics.
Yet the TPP really floored me. There were significant and persistant voices and groups against it, but the Reeps were for it and the corporations wrote it, and so it passed.
Ironically, the people it will hurt the most are Blacks and the working poor.
Sanders has always been anti-corporate and proactive on socialist economic issues. The repercussions for this extend to those most oppressed by our current flood-up-to-the-rich economic policies. Redistribution of wealth will also mean a complete sea-change in the way white males think about themselves and their place in society because the threat they now imagine due to the spread of false memes by the corporate oligarchy will no longer exist.