Why Bernie's system overhaul is the best option available, captured in a single quote

[drokhole]

""We are not bringing about a vital change, uprooting the old ways of thought, freeing the mind from traditions and habits.
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We go on day after day exactly as before; we do not want to strip away all our false values and begin anew. We want to do patchwork reform, which only leads to problems of still further reform. But the building is crumbling, the walls are giving way, and fire is destroying it. We must leave the building and start on new ground, with different foundations, different values." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

We tried their drug policy, its overpopulated the prisons and led to broken homes and lives.

We tried their banking, its siphoned money out of the system, funneled it to the top 1%, and almost torpedoed the entire economy.

We tried their healthcare, its led to ballooning $4+ trillion annual costs (and ineffective care) at the pursuit of profits over people.

We tried their higher education, its led to a staggering $1 trillion student loan debt bubble that's about to burst.

Someone recently posted a brilliant Robert Reich quote that succinctly encapsulates the quote from above:



It's time to start on new ground.

Bernie 2016

"In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"We want a little reform here and there, but most of us are afraid to...build a completely new structure, for this would require a radical transformation of ourselves." - Krishnamurti

"If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up exactly where we are headed." - Old Chinese proverb

(okay, technically, multiple quotes )

[99Forever]

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