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It is a tragedy wrought by the Clinton "Telecommunications Act" and, before that, the Reagan killing of the "Fairness Doctrine"--which ballooned media monopolies and ended any political fairness whatsoever in broadcast media. THAT is how Sanders was black-holed for months in broadcast media and why many people still don't know much about him today.
He has actually been amazingly successful despite this huge handicap and with NO superpac/corporate/billionaire money. That is the political story of the century, and of the last century as well. NO ONE has done this before. But you won't hear even a whisper about this in the monopolized, propagandistic corporate media created by Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan.
Sanders not only won four states yesterday--including bell-weather MN and Colorado--and nearly won MA, and also won big in NH and came within a hairsbreadth of winning IA, in the early primaries. He's earned hundreds of pledged delegates and now we move on to some of the most hurting states in the country (f.i., Ohio, devastated by Clinton's "free trade for the rich"
and some of the most progressive states in the country (CA, WA, OR).
This. Is. Amazing.
Sanders success is amazing. His fundraising ability from small donors is off-the-charts amazing.
I never expected to see this in my lifetime--a presidential candidate who speaks the truth about the corruption in our political system and the unfairness in our economic system, refuses corrupt money and did not enrich himself in public office--heading toward the Democratic convention on small donor money with a fair chance at upsetting the apple-cart. Wow!
And, whatever happens, this new thought is out there now, spoken by a viable presidential candidate: our political and economic systems are rigged against the majority of Americans.
Thank you, Bernie Sanders! Thank you, Vermont!
