Regarding what Americans want or believe.

[Uncle Joe]

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/more-and-more-americans-agree-bernie-sanders-and-not-just-those-who-identify-left

More and More Americans Agree With Bernie Sanders, and Not Just Those Who Identify With the Left

Big Business
· About three-quarters (74 percent) of Americans—including 84 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of independents, and 62 percent of Republicans—believe that corporations have too much influence on American life and politics today, according to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll. In contrast, only 37 percent think that labor unions exercise too much influence.

The Pew Research Center discovered that 60 percent of Americans—including 75 percent of Democrats—believed that "the economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy."

(snip)

Seventy-three percent of Americans favor tougher rules for Wall Street financial companies, versus 17 percent who oppose stronger regulation.

(snip)

More than three-quarters of Americans (79 percent) think that wealthy people don't pay their fair share of taxes, while 82 percent believe that some corporations don’t pay their fair share of taxes.

There is more on the link.

Is there a candidate out there that can't be bought, addressing these and many other critical issues?

I believe so.

[HappyPlace]

1. Bern Baby Bern - Disco Inferno!

Bern Baby Bern, Bern the Mother Down!

[Uncle Joe]

3. Here's an interesting poll compilation, scroll down to the second graph on the link.

Does anyone notice a trend?


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_democratic_presidential_nomination-3824.html

For some reason I can't cut and paste it here.

[Doctor_J]

2. I don't think the BOG/HRC get this. The country desperately needs a change of direction

Hillary, while far better than anyone in the clown car, will not even attempt that needed change of direction.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I believe there are two dynamics at play, Doctor_J

Emotional ties can be difficult to cut and will very often override reason.

If nothing else continuous name recognition planted by the corporate media for well over a decade has placed the notion of certainty or inevitability on much of the populace, going from a known (even if it's not the best path) to a more unknown direction can be discomforting.

[WillyT]

5. Thanks For The Tread, Uncle Joe !!!

[Uncle Joe]

6. It was my pleasure, WillyT!

Thanks for the support.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked for the 3:12 CST time crowd.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Bernie Sanders addresses poverty, mass incarceration, putting poor people into jail and

disproportionately imprisoning blacks.

One major reason as to why Sanders didn't have more good fortune in passing legislation is because for so long too much of the Congress and Executive were entralled with Reaganism.

I do believe the tide is turning on that but Sanders was ahead of the parade.