Robert Reich: The Secret to Bernie's Campaign

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/32206-focus-the-secret-to-bernies-campaign

I'm always wary of "astroturf" groups designed to resemble grass roots, but these are the real thing. I've spoken with several organizers who hadn't had any contact with the official campaign but felt they "had to help organize" for Bernie, as several of them told me.

I have no idea whether all this grass-roots activity will take Bernie all the way to the White House, but I do know it's real and it's important -- and it's under the radar of Washington insiders and pundits who look only at how many organizers are on a campaign's payroll or how many dollars a campaign has raised. The Sanders campaign isn't like any other campaign I've witnessed since Eugene McCarthy's anti-Vietnam War presidential insurgency -- which didn't get McCarthy elected but gave birth to a national grass-roots movement that ultimately ended the war. Peaceful change of the magnitude we need can come about only when millions or people are organized and mobilized to demand it. Bernie's presidential run is catalyzing such a movement.

[merrily]

1. The secret to Bernie Sanders campaign: Bernie Sanders.

He's been on the right side of history most of the time all his life and he has steadfastly, courageously and straightforwardly done whatever he could to bring everyone else there.

[Enthusiast]

2. +1 a whole bunch!

[Demeter]

3. The Grassroots has been out there all along, waiting to catch fire

And now, the whole world will feel the Bern!