There's a reason millions of voters are aligning with Sanders.

[Blue Meany]

27. We need FDR. We needed him in 2008, or at least someone like LBJ...

but instead we got a President who was symbolically transformative and did some good things, but was more in the DLC/Clinton mold than in the FDR/LBJ mold. We could perhaps tolerate that in the 1990s, but not now. The current system, and the financial crisis of 2008, has disproportionately hurt people under 35, and to a lesser extent those under 45. African-Americans and Hispanics were also disproportionately hit asset losses (mainly houses) as a result of the crisis. These groups have not recovered and may never recover if something doesn't change--exporting jobs, lowered wages, college debt, do not make for a bright future. This is really a potentially revolutionary moment in our history when the policies of "centrist" corporate Democrats are not going to cut it If the needed changes are going to be made--and people are going to have hope that there is a possibility of change within the existing political system--I think someone like Bernie or Elizabeth Warren needs to be elected. If that does not happen, I expect there to be mass movements for change outside the system in various forms. We watched the occupy movement--a positive, non-violent movement--suppressed under the Obama administration. I expect the Clinton would be less tolerant of dissent than he was.
Unless we want a future of fascism and/or significant social unrest, we need a change of direction now. Sanders may be our last home of staving off this dystopian future.
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