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directs all his lethal fire at the Republicans and the Kochs and their enormous anti-government/anti-Democrat organization of fellow billionaires.
Is there any Democrat who thinks the party couldn't use a little shaking up and reminding of what its membership wants, especially the membership itself? Yes, Bernie's a definitely something of a crank, imagining all Democrats who don't support him are corrupt and pretending that his revolutionary ideals aren't actually drawn from established liberal Democrat ideology.
But a big fault of the liberal core of the party is stasis, a grim acceptance that we will only be able to achieve part of what we want that has become habitual, and like every old organization its establishment has institutionalized their own continuance over party goals. This new energy that says compellingly, "That's not nearly enough, we must and can do more, and this is what we are going to do:" is something we really need. And if he's occasionally offensive and hostile, oh well? He is what he is.
Jim Hightower in 2010 talking about what Democrats were doing to combat corporate power. Way too much truth to it still. The "they" in this are corporations.
Here come the Democrats, again, you know, just weaker than Canadian hot sauce. You know? Offering a little reform. I saw one of the Senators, Democrats, saying, we're going to have a robust disclosure program. Oh, good. They're going to tell us they're stealing from us. But at least we're going to know.
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