2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why doesn't the Clinton camp and Democratic Party elites attack [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)Bernie is basically saying the country is hurting because there has been an unholy alliance between the Elites in the political and corporate world for 40 years. We have allowed the development of an Oligarchy akin to thhe Gilded Age. And that has to be changed, and the population has to start fighting back (politically) to bring some balance back into the system.
The Clinton Camp and the rest if the corporate faction of the Democratic Establishment will not say that. Their message is that things are fine as they are , if we could just take over from those Republicans., The system just needs a tweak here a tweak there, and people will be better off.
They will never acknowledge the depth and breadth of the problem, or advocate for Fundamental Reform.
So they'd rather co-opt the easy stuff (in a way that has plausible deniability later), and say "Pay no attention" to the larger problem or the power of the Oligarchy. Just beat the Republicans and there will be a chicken in every pot.