"What the American people are saying, and by the way, I hear this not just from progressives but from conservatives and from moderates, is that we can no longer continue to have a campaign finance system in which Wall Street and the billionaire class are able to buy elections.
"Americans, Americans, no matter what their political view may be, understand that is not what democracy is about. That is what oligarchy is about. And we will not allow that to continue."
Sanders even touched on a subject that many grassroots groups not associated specifically with racial injustice tend to minimize. (Move to Amend makes this a central tenet of its organizing methodology). He said the following.
"And when we talk about transforming America, it
means ending the disgrace of this country having more people in jail than any
other country in the world disproportionately African-American and Latino.
"Not only are we going to fight to end institutional racism and a broken criminal justice system, we are going to provide jobs and education for our young people, not jails and incarceration."
Sanders also unequivocally came out in support of protecting Mother Earth. He also took a decidedly non-neocon view of international policy.
The excitement and interest in the Bernie Sanders' campaign leads one to believe that given the proper impetus, his candidacy and ultimate presidency could make a transformative change in the body politic. The massive number of donations to his campaign from the grassroots is probative. This just may be that moment in time when grassroots movements need to coalesce with all their might in support of the political revolution proferred by Bernie Sanders, which holds promise to lead us away from the fascist oligarchic path we are on to a path towards a real democracy, based on the social needs of all Americans.
(Article changed on February 11, 2016 at 09:29)
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