Obama Didn’t Just Help Create Trump, He Also Helped Create Bernie Sanders

[mystery-ak]

 Obama Didn’t Just Help Create Trump, He Also Helped Create Bernie Sanders

Like Trump, Sanders is tapping into a seething discontent in American life over who has power and who doesn’t.

By John Daniel Davidson
February 24, 2020

AUSTIN, Texas — At a massive Bernie Sanders rally like the one held downtown here on Sunday evening, you get the sense that a huge swath of the Democratic voter base is deeply unhappy with everything in America, and has been for a while.

The immediate object of their ire might be Donald Trump, but their discontent goes further back than the last election, and it encompasses more than politics as usual. They want everything Sanders promises: Medicare for all, free college, free child care, a massive increase in the minimum wage, the Green New Deal, all of it.

But they also want something more, something harder to define. Justice, maybe, or a reckoning with the powers that be. They’d like to wield that power, and they seem ready to sweep away the social and economic order to get it. There’s something positively Trumpian about their fervor, in their belief that they can overcome the political establishment and corporate media elite and usher in a new era. You could almost say they want to make America great—as they define it.

At the very least, they’re ready for what Sanders promised the crowd of nearly 13,000 fired-up Austinites on Sunday night: a transformation of American politics

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[goatprairie]

The emergence of Obama and the candidacy of Bernie Sanders didn't just magically materialize.
There has been a definite leftward drift of the Dem Party to the left for the last fifty years.
Obama and Sanders are the  results of that drift.
Academia is the biggest villain in the cause of that drift.  Virtually all  of the people at the top/factors directing the leftward drift originated in academia.
Purge the universities, high schools, and grade schools of the leftist bacillus  and we'll stop the leftward drift.
Easier said than done.

[berdie]

The emergence of Obama and the candidacy of Bernie Sanders didn't just magically materialize.
There has been a definite leftward drift of the Dem Party to the left for the last fifty years.
Obama and Sanders are the  results of that drift.
Academia is the biggest villain in the cause of that drift.  Virtually all  of the people at the top/factors directing the leftward drift originated in academia.
Purge the universities, high schools, and grade schools of the leftist bacillus  and we'll stop the leftward drift.
Easier said than done.

My thoughts as well...and stated much better than I could have.