2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is too extreme for America [View all]ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)back about those times, I DID feel "we the people" felt we could actually have our voices heard by TPTB! Today, it's so out of control and when I look around I see so much lethargy! The CORPORATE media ONLY reports what they feel we should hear AND most of it depends on WHO you are!
I try so hard to make my fellow citizens aware of what has happened, but so much of the time the answer I get is "I don't talk about politics or religion!" Pretty sick AND IMO one of the main reason the SAME people keep getting re-elected over and over an!d over! I'm a Democrat, but when I see how Bernie is being victimized by THIS system it not only depresses me it makes my blood boil!
What the DNC is doing now is really unacceptable to me because anyone who's followed politics for as long as I have can clearly see they've "decided" that Hillary will be the nominee. Yes, she's quite capable and well informed, but for me she represents what we have now which is "more of the same" and I don't have much faith that much will change. I KNOW I'll have to vote for her because of the Supreme Court situation, but unfortunately that's the only plus she offers me.
I so WISH I felt differently, but having been part of the REVOLUTION of "my generation" it's hard for me to accept what I can only call the "dumbing down" of this country. I honestly know people who DON'T know that we have 3 branches of government or that journalists were once known as The Fourth Estate!
Oh, I need to stop. I get carried away. Yes, the past was chaotic and there was much upheaval, but at least I felt I was part of helping to fix it.
PERHAPS we've come to a cross road at this point in time and people are waking up. WE MUST stop this GREED!