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General News    H3'ed 10/25/15

Americans' Embracing Democracy Versus Corporatocracy: the Difference between Bernie and Hillary in one Paragraph

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The dialogue between Hillary and a Harvard Medical School physician supporting single-payer -- accompanying Bernie to his February 1993 meeting at the White House -- is important for the record. They got their meeting at the White House and the two doctors laid out the case for single-payer to the first lady:

“She said, ‘You make a convincing case, but is there any force on the face of the earth that could counter the hundreds of millions of the dollars the insurance industry would spend fighting that? Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party—raging against different halves of the same machine “And I said, “How about the president of the United States actually leading the American people?’ and she said, ‘Tell me something real.’ ”

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Twenty-two years later, Anti-Crony Corporatism where the Occupy and Tea Party movements overlap is a Bernie Sanders sweet spot. 

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