Big Money, Citizens United and the Campaign Propaganda Industry -- leaches on our democracy.
Presidential campaigns mean big business and lots of money flowing into the coffers of media consultants, the media itself, ad (film) producers, pollsters, all the hanger-on of politics.
It isn't about picking the best candidate for some of them. That's not why they are backing Hillary and pushing for Biden to enter the race. It's a money-making business for them.
Sanders' approach, his condemnation of Citizens United and refusal to run his campaign in the usual spendthrift way is a big threat to the campaign business hangers-on. Nothing against them personally. I appreciate that they fear losing their livelihoods. In that respect, Bernie's low budget campaign probably makes them feel just as insecure as other workers in our country feel.
But Bernie is just the best candidate, has the best ideas and is gaining a lot of momentum.
August has been slow, but look at the crowds Bernie has mobilized. The thing about the crowds is that they represent effort on the part of the people who make up the crowds. I took three metro trains to get to Bernie's event in Los Angeles, three each direction and then waited over an hour to get inside the stadium. And a lot of people were there before me and had to travel routes more difficult and longer than mine. Bernie is really inspiring people.
That means that Bernie will be able to get the vote out.
We shall see what happens. But history is change. Yes, there are patterns, and the pattern suggests to me that we are about due for a populist makeover. Bernie might call it a revolution. I think that the word revolution suggests violence, and I don't think that is what will happen, not if Bernie is elected. I think he will bring the country together.
The media may black out Sanders. But he is on YouTube and social medial and people can an are finding him there. Tell your friends to check him out. Just listen to one of his speeches. That's been enough to sell my friends on his campaign.
In a way, the media is doing the Sanders campaign a favor. It's actually better if people can hear Sanders, unadulterated, without a lot of media comment.
Feel the Bern.
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but it's actually a huge strength, provided we get the word out across the
conventional ideological spectrum, esp racial minorities, but also all the voters
who have grown sick of DNC's GOP-lite approach to governing; because it's
becoming increasingly obvious that it's a LOOSING proposition for voters, for
everyone except a very wealthy few (George Carlin's famous "The Club"
that
sees 95% of the population as "the little people" to provide labor as cheap as
possible, to be exploited & poisoned for corporate CEO's profit, tp be sent to
endless bloody wars, etc.
We the People all over this nation, from all sectors, are waking up and connecting
these ^ dots, and saying "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!", and Bernie's right there fighting
with us against this corporate onslaught. Bless his big heart. 
