Bernie Sanders calls for “political revolution”
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lack of sense and the basics of history maybe.
Join the Political Revolution, Sanders 2016! 
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of the French Republic's ideals, liberte, egalite et fraternite. Vive La France!
Regardless of who wins the 2016 election
The Republican party has fallen into the abyss of right wing lunacy and is now a proto-fascist party. It has no more claim to be a positive element in a democratic system than Marine LePen's lunatics in France. The success of such parties is not a good sign of a healthy democracy. In the case of the Republicans, they are on life support being buoyed upwards by gerrymandering, voter suppression and Koch money. The GOP will soon be in the dustbin of history.
The Democratic Party is quite clearly splitting. How many of us who support Bernie Sanders really think we belong to the same party as Debbie Wassermann-Schultz, Jon Cowan or Rahm Emanuel? Emanuel spent his tenure as White House chief of staff making tasteless remarks like how we progressives are "retards." I felt I was being read out of the Democratic party by a vile man who had abandoned the principles of the New Deal and helped a new generation of Gilded Age greed merchants bring on the New Depression. The Third Way/New Democrats/DLC have tried to keep progressives with the bogey man of a Republican president, but as middle class wealth continues to migrate upwards into the pockets of Wall Street criminals, that line is getting old, very old. When there is nothing left of the GOP to fear, the Democratic Party will formally split.
The question will be one of how critical the situation has become. The establishment wing of the Democratic Party will be pushing "market based" policies, supply side economics and "free" trade, all of which exacerbate income inequality, while arguing that they are somehow different from the "old Republican Party, the late and unlamented GOP." The level of income inequality we are experiencing now cannot be long maintained without a police state. A nascent police state already exists in America, with establishment Democrats and the GOP agreed that the common people are potential enemies and need to be watched by the NSA. If that isn't a critical situation crying out for a revolutionary solution, what is?
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*My heart and vote belong to Bernie, but if I were a betting man I'd put my money on Hillary.
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