the fact that progressive populism is huge within the traditional Democratic Party sphere these days. When a two party system panders to the upper 10-percent over a period of at least 4 decades, what else would you expect? People don’t generally take well to being treat to being treated as meaningless and therefore ignored by other people regardless of their stature. The dues are now being collected and we are all caught up in it whether we like it or not.
Me? I’ve been thinking and saying what Sanders says as long as he has. A registered and loyal voting Democrat the whole time. It’s been a frustrating 40 years — even though I’ve personally done fairly well as far as personal financial security goes, not exceedingly well but relatively secure. For me, it’s not about me. It’s about what Zi see around me. It’s about relatives, acquaintances, community members I’ve seen hurt by the record of our two party system over the past 40 years. The rift within our party is ultimately a good thing in my eyes. It certainly has a lot of folks rattled. As a result, maybe we’ll become a stronger party. We’ll see. But status quo isn’t working.
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