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no more banksters

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Fri Jan 29, 2016, 10:46 AM Jan 2016

How will they try to crush Bernie?

As Bernie Sanders frequently refers to Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) during his speeches, it would be worth to examine a few things on how the corporate establishment tried to fight back, when Roosevelt took the presidency. How the current establishment will try to crush Bernie in case he get elected?

That system today is probably more complex and powerful. After nearly four decades of domination of the neoliberal doctrine in favor of the financial and corporate elites, people learned to worship the free market and hate the state.

However, the system also shows serious signs of saturation. After repeated financial disasters, free market has been proved a fairy tale. At the end, big banks are rescued by the state, while the powerful corporate lobbyists don't hesitate to mobilize the internal government channels in order even to start wars, to increase their profits. That's because the state has been completely occupied by these private lobbyists. Sanders wants to change that and retake the state for the benefit of the people.

Sanders today speaks about Socialism and social policies, but his popularity rises. Surely, this activates a warning alarm to the establishment, which seeks to maintain current status quo by any means. But today, public relations is not something new and unknown. What will the establishment do? Does it have another Bernays in its sleeve, who has already a new method to manipulate the masses? Or is it time for an open class war?

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2016/01/how-will-they-try-to-crush-bernie.html
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