Bernie Sanders Urges Students Demand Progressive Voices Be Heard

[JCanete]

18. Do you really believe that change can come about from the inside? What is the impetus for that

change?

No doubt, we need people inside who want to effect change, but they are powerless to do so without a convincing argument that the people up in their tower need to change. Generally that convincing argument is something like pitchforks, or the threat of pitchforks. I'd rather the castle not get stormed, because revolutions tend to replace what existed with something just as bad or worse, but our system of government IS corrupt. Our democratic leadership isn't equipped or clean enough to call it out on the other side. Whether they have better intentions than the GOP is not at issue. Whether they are getting us closer to those goals is.

what is a losing strategy is pretending that we can keep playing the game the way it has been rigged to be played, and get better results.

But what is dishonest about saying money corrupts...that politicians need money to run and favor not to be destroyed by a corporate owned media? Isn't there something dishonest about saying that our democratic leaders are above these primal forces? Do you really believe that they are?