| Copyrighted Image - Image is from copyrighted website - AFGE () Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Burlington, Vermont-- The campaign signs all say: "Paid for by Bernie 2016 (Not the Billionaires)." That is a given with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the proud democratic socialist who decries plutocracy and oligarchy and proposes to tax Wall Street. Sanders is the presidential contender who is not looking to win the favor of the hedge-fund managers, bankers and CEOs who define and dominate American politics. The whole point of the audacious bid that Sanders has now formally launched for the Democratic presidential nomination is to upset the calculus of American politics. "Today," he declared at the opening of Tuesday's announcement address, "we stand here and say loudly and clearly that; 'Enough is enough. This great nation and its government belong to all of the people, and not to a handful of billionaires, their Super-PACs and their lobbyists.'" |
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