Bernie Sanders Unveils A 12 Point Economic Plan To Break The Koch Oligarchs (cross-posted from GD)

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17. "there are far more of us than of them"

I admire your reasoning and your spirit Sabrina but the Walton family of Walmart infamy has as much money as 42% of the American populace. Do you think overwhelming numbers matter against all that money and power?

There are five hundred and thirty five legislators in congress, if the Koch brothers gave each legislator ten million dollars (about 5% of their combined wealth) do you doubt that they would own the government and that 40 million voters could go eat cat food?

Those 535 legislators I mentioned just now are all the power we have short of a mass uprising or an armed revolt and then their protective services, the police, and history tells us the US military, will have you out gunned and surrounded before they start shooting.

Your more of us than them means nothing in an authoritarian society. Now if you had a direct democracy where everyone all three hundred million of us had the vote your more of us than them would mean something.

As to kicking out the enablers. It is not the what but the how. How is this group or any other group going to get all those wonderful ideas that Senator Sanders talks about through congress. Try to remember there is nothing in the US Constitution that gives any president the power to care for much less act for the general welfare of the nations citizens. If he acts Sanders will face a constitutional battle every inch of the way. It will be Sanders against the 535 and all their resources, and then there are the supremes. Why do you think Roosevelt tried to stack the court all those years ago?

In conclusion, America is working just as it was intended to work. If their is a systemic flaw it is that America was not designed to be a socialist government. If you think the country should act with more social conscience, which I do, we will have to change the constitution. That would require a grass roots movement, initiative petitions in all fifty states and in some towns and a national conversation on what we want our country to stand for, but in my thinking we are still a few generations away from that point if we don't fall into tyranny first.