Reply #36: My take is that even the good politicians who really want to do what is right [View All]

[bertman]

for the working class still have to get re-elected; therefore, they think they have to NOT piss off the big money donors who will help them in their next campaign.

Now with so much riding on how much air time and what kind of ads a politician can run the demand for $$$$ is what drives them. Even if we had some who were willing to say "Screw the money, I'm going to vote for principal" like Alan Grayson, Patrick Murphy and many others, they tend to get KO'd by the money boys who finance the opposition.

It's a corrupt system. Bribery that has been made legal.

But, back to the subject of Bernie Sanders. He's one of my heroes. Whoever said that he never gets anything done is full of crap. Bernie was the guy who got the community public health clinics funded in the Healthcare Deform Bill. One of the few decent parts of that abomination.

Bless You, Bernie. You da man!!

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