It is no coincidence that the movement for a march on Washington for the Sanders campaign is driven by the theme that “enough is enough.”
Our democracy is becoming an oligarchy dominated by those with the most money. Our government is becoming a private auction where legislation is sold to the highest bidder of lobbyists dispensing or exploiting the donations of big money donors. The the mainstream media acts like a megaphone for competing factions of insiders in league with competing factions of big money donors, while treating most citizens as political nonpersons who must be forced to choose between options they widely disapprove of.
The explosion of social media politics in 2016 is a reaction to the widespread view that if the political game is fixed, the deck is stacked, and the old media has become the home page for those who fix the game, stack the deck and rig the bid. The Bernie Sanders crowds are not driven by condescending political insiders who wrongly believe they are a temporary phenomenon that is not important, or by old media elites that barely acknowledge that the crowds even exist for the Sanders campaign. No, their motivation was stirred by the moment when the revolution of social media met the “enough is enough” view of millions.
Those in the old guard of politics and old media who said that many losing campaigns have drawn large crowds were then surprised by the magnitude of small donor support for Mr. Sanders—as they will be surprised again when citizens in Iowa and other states caucus.
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