Bernie Sanders to Stephen Colbert: I’m here to ‘frighten the billionaire class’

[kpete]

Bernie Sanders to Stephen Colbert: I’m here to ‘frighten the billionaire class’
David Ferguson DAVID FERGUSON
18 NOV 2014 AT 09:17 ET

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“Hopefully,” Sanders said, “we frighten the billionaire class. Hopefully, we frighten the insurance companies, because we are the only major country on Earth that doesn’t have a health care system guaranteeing health care to all people.”

Colbert asked if the nation hadn’t rejected liberal philosophy in the 2014 elections, when a “red tide” swept over the country in the form of decisive Republican victories.

“About 64 percent of the American rejected the two-party system,” said Sanders. “They rejected Washington as it now functions. They rejected a political system and a Congress which spends more time representing the wealthy and the powerful more than ordinary Americans.”

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“The news is that I’m thinking about running for president,” Sanders said, adding that first he has to ascertain whether the electoral will exists in the country to “take on the billionaire class.”



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/bernie-sanders-to-stephen-colbert-im-here-to-frighten-the-billionaire-class/

[Autumn]

1. Bernie frightens much more than the billionaire class and the insurance companies.

He scares the shit out of the entrenched politicians. “About 64 percent of the American rejected the two-party system,” .

64 percent, that's a nice number.

[iandhr]

2. Integrity Disqualifies Sanders for White House

The Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s potential bid for the 2016 Presidency was declared over, on Monday, before it even began, because of a key feature of the American political system that makes a person with integrity ineligible for the White House.

According to some experts, the electoral system has developed a number of safeguards over the past few decades to prevent someone with independence and backbone from occupying the Presidency.


“Bernie Sanders’s failure to become a member of either major political party excludes him from the network of cronyism and backroom deals required under our system to be elected,” said Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. “Though that failure alone would disqualify Sanders, the fact that he is not beholden to a major corporate interest or investment bank would also make him ineligible.”


Because of his ineligibility, Logsdon said, the Vermont Senator would be unable to fund-raise the one billion dollars required under the current system to run for President. “The best source of a billion dollars is billionaires, and Sanders has alienated them,” he said. “Clearly he didn’t think this through.”


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/integrity-disqualifies-sanders-white-house

[djean111]

3. It is getting more and more difficult to see the difference between Borowitz and reality.

In this case, what Andy writes is true.

[moondust]

5. By the NYT editorial board?

Oh wait...no...the editorial board would never be that honest. It could jeopardize their "revenue stream" and their access to the cocktail party circuit.

[SomethingFishy]

11. I'm hoping that was supposed to be funny...

And if not then we are well and truly fucked.

[iandhr]

14. It is

Borowitz writes a column for the New Yorker that's similar to The Onion.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. "About 64 percent of the American rejected the two-party system"

Uh-oh.

[L0oniX]

6. What “About 64 percent of the American rejected the two-party system,” says is...

all about those who didn't vote ...or voted independent knowing there would not be a chance of their candidate winning.

[bigwillq]

7. K and R

[Voice for Peace]

8. he's the one.

I'm in.
He is not scared of honesty.
And his smile is adorable.

[SomethingFishy]

9. I. Fucking. Love. This. Guy.

But he's right. If he runs he's gonna need a fucking army to protect him(figuratively), and I just don't know if there are enough seriously angry people yet.

[MisterP]

10. but not giving your votes to a duopoly only strengthens the duopoly! (somehow ...)

[Zorra]

12. Dear 1%: "American Bastille Day" is coming soon to a theater near you. nt

[Voice for Peace]

13. Some brilliant screenwriters and millionaire liberals ought to make the movie.

Tell a story of how the evil one percent's greed united all the
little people -- from the far right to the far left, east & west,
north & south. The story of how they rallied, and succeeded
in making America great again. All sorts of revolutions and
corporations falling greedy people losing haters being sucked
into the ground and the Little People WIN.

I have no idea how, but I know there are lots of brilliant
writers and thinkers out there. Movies can have a profound
social effect, or at the very least, can plant seeds of ideas.