Bernie Sanders: This is government of the few, by the few and for the few....

[Playinghardball]

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Great Slogan...

[Zorra]

1. He totally gets it. Now we have a candidate who will help us try to take

our democracy and our country back.

[merrily]

2. Sounds great, but, realistically, I don't see how it can happen.

2/3 House
2/3 Senate
2/3 states

Even something that seemed as uncontroversial as equal rights for women never passed.

[Octafish]

3. ''This is not what brave Americans have fought and died to defend.''

It certainly is not. And it is welcome to hear some ideas being vocalized which have not been addressed since the time of Jimmy Carter austerity and Voodoo Reaganomics: Class warfare and the oligarchy has almost won completely -- at least as far as the three branches of government go. We've still got a vote and a chance, which is nice.

Go Bernie! We've got a candidate who prioritizes in a way more aligned with my Democratic heroes: People over Profits.

[DJ13]

4. I DARE Hillary to say something like that

[MissDeeds]

5. Exactly

She may say it, but she doesn't mean it. Bernie does.

[liberal_at_heart]

6. Yes. We need publicly funded campaigns.

[libdem4life]

7. Plato seems to think that the step after Democracy is Tyranny. That Oligarchy came before.

http://gaplauche.com/blog/2011/04/13/the-cycle-of-decline-of-regimes-in-platos-republic/

Just another take on it...either way it sucks. And Hell Yes on CU...that was more than a slippery slope...it was an avalanche.

He says: Aristocracy, Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy and Tyranny

"Democratic man loves freedom; the desiring part rules his soul yet there is nothing but desire to distinguish which objects of desire to pursue and nothing to keep desire in check. The freedom that initially accompanies democracy makes it a possible home for all types of men, even philosophers, but according to Plato this very unrestrained freedom inevitably degenerates into mob rule and rampant license, a condition ripe for tyrannical man to step in as a demagogue promising order and change. Tyrannical man is the logical conclusion of this decline in the soul as he is completely a slave to his passions and projects his lack of self-mastery or self-control onto the world as a blind need to control others and satisfy his insatiable appetite."

That last sentence seems to reflect the Police State...unfeeling, undeterred, brutal and soulless. Also sounds a bit "anti-Christy"