Bernie Sanders - the New Rhetoric

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Community Organizer Posts : 193 Join date : 2011-10-07

Bernie Sanders - the New RhetoricThe facts emphasized by the Occupy Wall Street protesters are not
new. Sen. Bernard Sanders has been talking for years about the dangerous
influence and lack of accountability of corporations and the growing
economic inequality that is wrecking the nation.
But something is new. Now a report by the Congressional Budget Office
describing the growing wealth of the top 1 percent of earners has
received widespread attention and a new kind of legitimacy in the public
discourse. The conservative orthodoxy that has held sway for 30 years
is finally beginning to crack.
Liberals thought the election of
Barack Obama in 2008 was a sign the orthodoxy was cracking. Conservatism
under President George W. Bush had imploded, and Obama showed signs
early on that he wanted to be an activist president, responding to the
economic collapse with Rooseveltian ambitions.

But then came the
conservative reaction and obstructionism by the Republican minority in
Congress against Obama's agenda. Republicans harnessed popular anger
about the recession and what they portrayed as a government in league
with Wall Street to successfully thwart or limit Obama's remedies.

Obama
invited the Republican backlash by the failure of his administration to
hold Wall Street accountable for its criminal destructiveness; instead,
banks were coddled back to health with the idea that the economy would
suffer if Wall Street tottered.

It became apparent soon enough
that, even as the Republicans had blocked many Obama initiatives, they
themselves had nothing to offer except for greater subservience to the
corporations that had brought on the economic collapse. The Citizens
United decision by the Supreme Court underscored the growing hold that
large corporations have on the political sphere.

The American
people noticed these things, and finally the Occupy movement began to
give expression to the incapacity of our politics to subject our
economic malefactors to justice and to move in the direction of economic
health.

theres more at:

http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=8820f406-21a2-405b-916c-812b90b6d5de

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Subject: Re: Bernie Sanders - the New Rhetoric Wed Nov 02, 2011 4:43 pm

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