Bernie Sanders is about to give Democrats their ‘come to Jesus’ moment

In the midst of the media’s never-ending horse race coverage of the Democratic Primary, delivered by pundits who rarely leave the comfy confines of cable news green rooms to actually speak with the voters they pontificate about, a long-brewing simmer of struggle erupted. It started with Democratic voters in 2008; so disheartened and angered by eight years of war, recklessness, and social-Darwinism-masked-as-economic-policy, they delivered Barack Obama the White House on the belief he’d usher in a new era of capital Progressivism. Disenchanted with Obama and 30 years of trickle-down economics and corporate America’s purchase of Washington, D.C., Occupy Wall Street spread in the heart of the corruption only to ultimately fizzle. And then there was Bernie Sanders.Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speaks during a campaign rally at Cubberley Community Center on June 1, 2016 in Palo Alto, California For all the punditry about the Vermont Senator’s historic rise (or lack thereof), a simple truth has been missing. Quite the contrary from some radical, “pie in the sky” revolutionary, Sanders is actually an FDR Democrat. You know, the Democrat who brought America back from the brink of economic calamity. The Democrat whose New [...]
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