Bernie is getting known all over the world too!
From Norway http://www.aftenposten.no/article/ap-8079272.html
....At the public meeting spoke Sanders about much more than day care. He also made it clear that he wants 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, paid sick leave, education and health care for all Americans.
Jill Langval (35) is absolutely sure that she will vote for Bernie Sanders.
USA, Oman and Papua New Guinea is currently the only three countries in the world that does not offer paid maternity leave.
The bill he will thus give the country's richest. He wants, as he puts it, a political revolution.
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to combat and change the powerful apparatus in the US and globally now. But there's no other choice than continued misery and decline if we don't at try. Like Eliz. Warren says, 'If you don't even try, you can't win'. This sounds so idealistic but there are more than a few times in history when the establishment had to make changes and concessions, though not w/o a fight, for sure.
Iceland jailed their bankers after 2008 and some fled the country. 
During the S&L bank fraud crisis Reagan even prosecuted some of the crooks including a colleague of McCain and a Bush brother who was banned from working in finance for 10 years (no sweat for him, but the gesture was right).
In 1906, Sinclair Lewis' novel, "The Jungle" about the horrors of the Chicago meat packing industry with widespread abuse of immigrant workers (and animals) massive filth and deception shocked the nation so much that the first food safety laws were passed under Theo. Roosevelt I think. Lewis wanted his work to call attention to the workers plight, but as he said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach!". But his message still reached many over time.
Lewis' expose, like Harriet Stowe's widely known 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852) and other actions created increased attention to issues of workers, oppression and excesses. When Stowe visited the White House to meet Pres. Lincoln he said, 'so you're the little lady who started this great big war". Biologist Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" (1962) began warning about the dangers of DDT and pesticides for wildlife and the ecosystem. In 1963 JKF was one of thousands who read her influential work.
Seattle Billionaire Nick Hanauer's warning to fellow elites is amazing; good businessman, family fled WWII Germany.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#.VaQ2BXlRHIU
The indomitable, fearless Mother Jones, 'the Miner's Angel' who's one of my heroines, fought for rights and working conditions of laborers, miners and child workers for decades all over the US. She once led child mill workers who endured injuries, mangled limbs and other abuses, on a walk, barefoot- 'The Children's March' from Pennsylvania to TR's home on Long Isl., NY to demonstrate the need to abolish child labor practices. The event's publicity helped lead to reforms.
http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/articles/172-mother-jones-the-miners-angel.html
OMG, sorry, got carried away here. Here's hoping things improve! 