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Bernie was right on one thing: his loathing of the bankster elites. He’s exceptionally weak on economics (I write so as not to offend), but he’s been consistently strong on the financialization and globalization of western economies and the disastrous effects for ordinary working people. He would have been a terrible president and could never have stood up to the pressures POTUS is facing - he would have capitulated in a New York Minute, much as he did when cheated by the DNC. But Bernie did much good in identifying the culprits: I just wish that more of his supporters could see that POTUS is fighting the same essential fight, but that the battles are far bigger and more complex than Bernie’s superficial understanding could have prepared them to appreciate. As I often find myself saying to Bernie followers: we want very similar things; we may disagree about the policies we’d like to see in a more normal political environment, but we have to get there first. You have to unrig the system before implementing policies for the future. Fail in that and everything is lost. We all have an enormous stake in moving to a better world.
Sometimes those arguments hit home. That’s why we all must do our part, however small, to help those around us to see what’s really at stake, for them and for the world as a whole.