2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My Thanks to Bernie Sanders [View all]George Eliot
(701 posts)I wonder if those of us with some age don't remember a time that was more democratic? Before the third way, Wall Street, and Citizens United. Small business reigned, your local banker lived in town and knew the community, churches stayed out of politics and earned their tax exemptions honestly, and politicians mostly cared about constituents instead of the Koch Brothers. Congress has always been a little corrupt but now . . . phew! The middle class was important following the war. It is a time long gone mostly because so few of us remember what we had and understand what we've lost.
A link I read this morning about North Dakota which still has many of the virtues of a by-gone time. An interesting read. http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/sanders-supporters-check-out-amazing-piece-american-history-path-you-might-take
We have Hillary who is better than Trump. Hopefully, Bernie has widened her perspective. I'm hopeful. He was amazing to take on such a task. Perhaps his teaching will inform and educate the millennials to something better in their future and they will act upon it.
A note to all those who want to tell me that many people didn't have it so good. I know that. A lot of people don't have it so good now either. And that includes minorities and women. I hope Hillary will truly be the President that will set things right again.