In all the "Bernie would have won/No he wouldn't" posts I've read...........

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162. My problems with Bernie? Firstly, HE WASN'T A SOCIALIST!!!!!!!...

He was a SINO, a social democrat, much like Hollande in France. That muddies the waters and makes it MORE difficult for a real socialist to get a real socialist message out.

And as to not having an anti-establishment country, I think that you're wrong on that, ESPECIALLY as far as this particular year and election cycle goes. Until another Bush, Kasich, Clinton or Kaine wins another election, I think that I have the advantage in the veracity of my opinion. And it will get worse. As long as the bourgeoisie keeps sucking up all of the wealth, it's guaranteed to get worse. But I understand you thinking that way because that IS the way it's been for most of the history of this country. Generals always start the next war with the tactics and strategies of the last one.

It's the times that the curtain of "upward mobility" is drawn back to show the heredity class system in all it's oppressive glory that are the times when that idea of establishmentarianism comes under stress. And it's been almost a decade now since the Great Recession and things aren't getting better for most of us. AT BEST, a large proportion of people are just trying to keep pace, while only the rich are actually getting ahead. And a significant segment are actually LOSING ground. And that's under Democratic administrations as well as Republican ones. And that's without a NEW Great Recession looming within the next couple of years.

Capitalism as a system that benefits the majority of the country is gone. It's outlived its usefulness and is dead, leaving a zombie lurching around trying to find something living to gobble up in its quest for more and more profit. People ARE waking up to that fact, but the reactions will be different. It's never guaranteed that dissatisfaction will lurch the country in a leftward direction. In fact without a solid message of leftward change, it's more of a guarantee that the masses go in a Bonapartist or fascist direction. As it has.