Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders and "Movement Politics" [View all]PatSeg
(49,539 posts)Our ideals and goals were often commendable, but the process was flawed. Being young, we thought we could do it with revolutionary actions, but our sense of history was very limited and uninformed. We did plant many seeds and started a lot of progressive change, but so many never even bothered to vote, which was evident by two landslide victories by Richard Nixon.
It is with age and experience, that I've begun to realize that positive change comes incrementally with an occasional quantum leap here and there. You are right, I don't think Bernie has ever moved past that era and his rhetoric and ideas have barely changed over the years. I remember that the revolution of the sixties brought us Richard Nixon, two terms of Ronald Reagan, and one term of George H. Bush. Revolutions have consequences.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden