"There are a lot of people in our country who are hurting and they are hurting very, very badly," Sanders said." The political establishment is not hearing their pain; the financial and economic establishment could care less about their lives; and the media establishment is not dealing with the reality of their lives; and along comes Mr. Trump."
But Sanders said voters who believed Trump when he told them he was going to make their lives better are going to be disappointed.
"The reality is that this country both politically and economically is moving toward an oligarchic form of society where a small number of very wealthy and powerful people control our economy and our political life," Sanders said.
"So what we have to do," Sanders said, "is create a strong grassroots movement where we bring people together to fight not only for social justice, not only for environmental justice, but for economic justice as well. But here is where it becomes difficult.
"It is very easy for many Americans to say, I hate racism, I hate homophobia, I hate sexism," Sanders said, "but it is a little bit harder for people in the middle or upper middle class to say, maybe we do have to deal with the greed of Wall Street.
"One of the things I'm trying to do," Sanders said, "is to figure out a way to radically transform the Democratic Party from a party led by a liberal elite to a party led by working people and young people and people who really want to transform society."
If attendance at Sanders' book tour appearances is any indication, he will have no trouble recruiting foot soldiers in his bid to revamp the Democratic Party.
Doug Liser commented:
It's simple what happened. The RNC gave power to the people with 17 candidates and through either will or incompetence did not interfere with the people's choice of Trump. The DNC on the other hand, run by a few powerful politicians, decided in advance who was going to win - no serious competitors to Clinton. Sanders was supposed to be knocked out by one punch in the first week but they grossly underestimated him. So they cheated and rammed their highly-unpopular choice through to a devastating loss. The future of the Democratic party is more at risk now than anytime in the last 100 years. Stop whining about Trump and fix the party!
Gary Reber commented
Bernie Sanders is speaking out and advocating for political once again, but seriously he has lost credibility with those masses of Americans, especially the young, because he gave up the fight against corruption, and economic and political oligarchy.
Msky comment on Gary Rebers above:
Personally, I believe his or his family's life/lives were threatened. Last day of the convention he spots a big bruised cut on his face, as though he were struck by someone wearing a thick ring. We'll probably never know the truth, but I highly doubt he simply "sold out". He, unhappily, did as he was bid and traveled the US stumping for her royal disliked. It is truly a shame that the DNC screwed Bernie...and, thus, screwed all of the rest of us, perhaps globally.
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