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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 05:15 PM Feb 2016

Bernie would use the power of the office to get around obstructionism just as much as HRC would.

Bernie would use whatever tools he had to strongly push the change agenda forward. And everyone who supports him knows that the big changes will take work that goes on long after the swearing-in.

He will work just as hard to elect more Dems(especially more progressive Dems, since electing the non-progressive kind isn't worth anything) and he and we who support him will work hard, at the grassroots level, to reshape the balance of forces in American politics.

Nothing Bernie's campaign calls for is based on delusion, or on lies.

It's time to stop pretending that the guy thinks he's Prospero or something.

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