One major reason I support Sanders primarily rather than Clinton
I'll vote Clinton if she's the nom. Meanwhile, it's Sanders for me. This is one reason why. Pretty sure Clinton won't touch this.
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We enabled it, and we continue to enable it.
We COULD pass regulations that protect the United States economy, and deal with some of the darker sides of globalization.
But we won't as long as the defeatist (or in the pockets of the oligarchy"
so-called centrists continue to allow Big Banks, Big Corporations and Wall Street write the rules of the road with no interference from he mere peons.
It merely stops them from using OUR money to do it. We the people would have a bank where we could deposit OUR money for safe keeping that would be invested locally and be covered by FDIC. The investment banks who take huge risks would still be there and anyone who wanted to could put money in their investments but these banks would have to buy their own insurance and use their own money to invest. We would not all be in the game. Just before W left office he tried to privatize Social Security - think what would have happened if he has succeeded. The same thing that happened to all those lost pensions in the Great Recession.
In the Great Recession many lost their savings and pensions because the way it is now the banks can gamble with OUR money regardless if we want them to or not. Also the reason that we had to bail them out was because there was not enough money in the FDIC to cover all the money these too big to fail banks had gambled with.
By separating the banks (back to what it was before Clinton repealed GS) the money of the depositor is protect by FDIC as it was since the Great Depression and the investment bankers can take their chances with their own money. Wall Street is not a good place to save your money. It is an investment entity.
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....and sang its praises? That Walmart? UUUUGGGGHHHH..............
There are quite a few Republicans from blue states defending seats that were picked up in the 2010 midterm election. The house is more difficult because the districts are gerrymandered. 
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they do not like that.
Or, as the great Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, "I have a dream. But it will never get through Congress. So what's the point?"
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wants the investment banks to be free to use OUR money to gamble with even if we do not want them to. As breaking up the banks all that is needed is one bill and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie have already submitted it to the Senate. Glass-Steagell allows for two different types of banks.
Bank 1 is a deposit or commercial bank that hold our deposits and our retirement funds etc.. They are invest locally and are insured by FDIC.
Bank 2 is an investment bank that anyone who wants to can invest in but the bank must insure their own holdings. They do not have access to OUR money nor do we have to bail them out if they lose. They have to gamble with their own money.
I posted about this above with more detail.
and that is how many think, although most Dems. are bright enough not to say that even if they think it, particularly the non new money ones.
do it alone. He has made it clear that in a revolution we create a movement that work for the change. The idea is to mobilize voters to push congress to do what they want. I think FDR said to some of his supporters that they had "make him do it". That is make their support so apparent that congress would not dare ignore it.
BTW I think that President Obama also was saying that but once he was in the WH the voters kind of forgot that part.
One of the first steps that he is indicating is helping to win the Senate back - which is why he keeps talking about a 50 state strategy. As for the House that is so gerrymandered that only a miracle will get it back. I think the House is where we will come in.
As for his accomplishments in the body he serves. He did not get his rating from NAACP, NARAL and the environmental groups for nothing. His record is very good.
And everything that you say about him can be applied to Hillary as well. But I will add one thing - Hillary and Bill Clinton triangulated (traded off) those of us who are poor or poc when they agreed to welfare reform and tough on crime laws. I do not want to be thrown under the bus again.
