Bernie Sanders Urges Students Demand Progressive Voices Be Heard

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16. but they don't just have good working relationships with non-profits. Building coalitions with

big money is a farce. It is continuing to believe in the face of contrasting evidence that you can get big money to do the right thing without giving them something they want even more. You can only sell them on needing to do it if there are pitch-forks at the gates, and the Democrats aren't rallying crowds with the pitchforks. Without that, all wheeling and dealing has to operate according to the terms of the people who hold the resources and the power. This strategy has continued to enrich them. Whether it has helped the poor and middle class to a far lesser extent or not, the preponderance of gains have continued to go to the top 1%, and that money and power has then been used against us by continuing to corrupt our system, our media, our voting integrity.

Those who keep thinking we can win by playing nice with the aristocracy are the ones who are naive.