The facade cracks. The Establishment begins to freak.
Holy shit, Batman! The Bernie Sanders political revolution is for real!Reality dawns.
The jig is up.
They're on to us.
Until now.
YIKES!Lloyd Blankfein’s “dangerous moment” is another opportunity for Sen. Bernie Sanders to raise some cash.
A day after the Goldman Sachs CEO, a fellow Brooklyn native, said the Vermont senator’s presidential candidacy “has the potential to be a dangerous moment,” Mr. Sanders blasted out a fundraising appeal ripping Mr. Blankfein for Wall Street’s role in the 2008 financial collapse.
“I have to say, I find it a little beyond comprehension that Lloyd Blankfein would lecture our campaign about ‘dangerous moments’ after Wall Street received huge bailouts from the working families of this country, when their greed and recklessness caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs, livelihoods, and homes just a few years ago. His arrogance has no end,” Mr. Sanders wrote, asking for a $3 contribution.
“Here’s the truth: Wall Street is terrified because we are running a campaign that does not support their agenda,” he added. “They never expected us to battle to a virtual draw in Iowa, and they are starting to get a bit nervous about New Hampshire too.”
Bernie Sanders Is Now Fundraising Off Lloyd BlankfeinBernie came out of Iowa like a lion and now has tied the establishment candidate nationally.
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Wall Street, and America 2.0The stunning ascent of Bernie Sanders portends far more than a hard-fought Democratic primary. Its greater implication, whether Sanders wins or loses, is that America's crony capitalism will no longer go unchallenged. Thus Hillary Clinton and her husband, along with many others, are increasingly trapped by the wealth, credentials, and insider status they have pursued so fervently - because they derive from a corruption whose nature and consequences can no longer be concealed. America's financial elites are now so corrupt, arrogant, and predatory that political leaders beholden to them can't even pretend to deliver economic or political security, much less fairness or progress.
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Indeed, this is the Democratic establishment's rejoinder to Bernie Sanders: he's a wonderful dreamer, but impractical - he can't get elected, so we'd get Trump or Cruz, and furthermore even if Bernie was elected, he couldn't get anything done. Look at Dodd-Frank and Obamacare, they say - those laws barely passed. No way could Bernie break up the banks. Only a pragmatic, moderate insider can get anywhere.
Actually the truth is exactly the opposite. American insider politics is now so corrupt that nobody within it can get anything done. But by stepping outside of the rules, you could do a great deal. Let's take a concrete example - the banks.
Start with Hillary Clinton. The sound bite is that Goldman Sachs paid her $675K for three speeches. The full reality is far worse. She, her husband, and their advisers have history with the banks going back decades. Bill Clinton made Robert Rubin, former president of Goldman Sachs, his Treasury secretary, then appointed Larry Summers and Laura Tyson to succeed him, and re-appointed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Fed. Together, they let the banks run amok; in fact, they helped them. They repealed Glass-Steagall, banned the regulation of derivatives, refused to use the Fed's authority to regulate the mortgage industry, and did nothing as massive securities fraud permeated the Internet bubble. Then Rubin became vice-chairman of Citigroup, while Tyson joined the board of Morgan Stanley. Bill Clinton, Rubin, Summers, Tyson, and Greenspan all share major responsibility for the 2008 global financial crisis, and none of them have been remotely honest about it.
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This is what the naysayers don’t get: “by stepping outside of the rules, you could do a great deal.“
And that’s what we’re going to do.They could still stop us. Even in decline the empire is mighty. But the handwriting is on the wall. The people have had enough. As the groundswell of dissatisfaction and heartbreak becomes a tsunami, Bernie is poised to catch the wave. He didn't start the revolution, he was just ready when it came.
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’
We have finally had enough.
The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin’ And the first one now will later be last For the times they are a-changin’
Against all odds and despite the enormous powers arrayed against us, we are rising as one to fight back.
Finally!We've had enough. Real change is coming.
“Brothers and sisters, now is not the time to think small!”Bernie Sanders
Dare to dream, America.
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