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Bernie Sanders Flashback (Original Post)
zebonaut
Aug 2015
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jalan48
(13,871 posts)1. He's made sense for a long time.
Why are his ideas considered too radical?
navarth
(5,927 posts)2. because socialism and stuff. nt
merrily
(45,251 posts)4. If I may rephrase: Who considers his ideas too radical?
Ans: The 1% of the 1%, the same ones who control the plutocracy, incl the msm.
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. In fairness, Hillary, too, is running on getting money out of politics.
(NOT sarcasm. She really is.)
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)6. I thought you were going to use a punchline
along the lines of, "and she's already succeeding in removing it, one large donation at a time".
merrily
(45,251 posts)7. It's its own punchline. But yours is very good.
canoeist52
(2,282 posts)8. Love this line! I wish it were so, but if it all goes to the media,
isn't it just circulating in the 1%?
Uncle Joe
(58,367 posts)5. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, zebonaut.