Reich writes: "The energy that fuels Bernie's 'political revolution' is a determination to sever the connection between great wealth and political power, and thereby reclaim our economy and restore our democracy."
Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein)
11 February 16
onight Bernie Sanders thanked his supporters for helping send a message that would "echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California." And that is that “the government of our great country belongs to all of the people, and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super PACS."
Exactly. The energy that fuels Bernie’s “political revolution” is a determination to sever the connection between great wealth and political power, and thereby reclaim our economy and restore our democracy. Nothing else we want to accomplish – saving the planet from the further devastations of climate change, avoiding interminable war, restoring middle-class prosperity and creating paths into the middle class for the poor, providing universal healthcare, overcoming structural discrimination – is possible unless we reestablish these foundations of our civic life.
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