2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: And the propaganda against Sanders and his supporters continues [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Of public life. There are some great videos from oh the SPAN, going back decades. He decided to run now for the Presidency since he believes this is a crisis moment. Who else did something similar, mind you that record we have in private letters, not the SPAN? FDR.
When FDR ran for the first time taxation was similar to what we have right now. Here is a little piece you might want to check. Inequality has not been this bad since 1929. Yup, this observation has been made by people like Picketti, Reich, Goobsie, and Krugman. Obama was compared to FDR by none other than Time magazine after he was sworn in. There is a reason for that. We are at one of those moments when the American people know things are not working. We get these populist moments from time to time. We are at one of them.
But to say that Sanders waited until now shows quite a bit of well...ignorance.