Reply #8: It's great, but most Democrats won't say these things. Therefore, the [View All]

[RichM]

ideas won't get a wide audience, won't become political issues, & will wither on the vine, while a lot of BS about terrorism & "national security" is rammed down the public's throat.

Bernie's speech here says everything that needs to be said. It's all here. And he got it as far as the floor of the House. The problem is connecting this already extant developed view to the levers of power & to the machinery of public visibility.

It's too bad, really. If the Democrats were all like Bernie, DK, & other stars in the Progressive Caucus, this message & its implied program would go a lot further. But most of the Party is not at all like that. So the wisdom & coherence of this viewpoint will remain safely muzzled & marginalized.