Jim Hightower: The Populist Insurgency Is Ratcheting Up

 Hightower talks about BERNIE! "The Bernie movement created a hopeful, formidable and growing populist political channel that is both insistently democratic and independent of the Democratic Party. Let's reflect on some fundamental changes this progressive uprising has achieved in the past 15 months:It yanked the national debate out of the hands of the Washington and corporate elites: both devoted for more than 30 years to rigging all the rules to further enrich the 1 percenters at the expense of everyone else — and proved that future success requires Democrats to abandon their effete namby-pambyism and embrace the vision, message, and issues of unabashed populism.  It lifted: from the political scrap heap up to the top of our national discourse — the concerns of middle- and low-income families:  More...