The Candidate I agree the MOST with on the issues is Bernie Sanders

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109. I think Americans now want to look beyond who the media tells them to buy ('er vote for)

So, is the only way we should pick our candidates is by how much money they can raise from billionaires?

We'll never move away from rather than move towards an oligarchy with that notion. That is so far removed from how the Democratic Party base used to want to select who represents them. We've let the corporate lobbyists and Republicans define us then, which gets them closer to winning and repeating the victories they got last election, via the same stupid strategies we had that lost us senate seats in the same states that voters voted to increase the minimum wage.

The challenge at this point is he needs to be visible through alternative media and events that are more exposed to alternative meeting and social media which is why these guys try to play that "exclusive debate" card now. They are scared that something like a Democracy Now debate that Sanders might want to appear on with other Democratic Party candidates (especially if some of them are excluded from the other debates) or third parties in the general election should he get nominated might happen.

Though the media tries to make it sound like Hillary has it "locked up", I'm betting in their inside conversations, they are talking quite differently, and are trying to plan strategies like this debate "agreement" to help them continue to control the message, that they are afraid of losing control.

I think of the candidates, 99% of Americans are most "ready" for someone like Sanders, not the others more locked in to the status quo that is so broken for most people now.