A Wikipedia definition of Neoliberalism: "Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, its advocates supported extensive economic liberalization policies such as privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to enhance the role of the private sector in the economy. Neoliberalism is famously associated with the economic policies introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan in the United States".

This is the philosophy that it's true believers brought with them when they took full control of the DNC leadership in the late eighties and where they remain in charge today as they continue to back the Clintonestas that rose to prominence at that same point in time !

Considering the above definition, are we really expected to believe that there's a broad difference between today's DNC and the current GOP ? Bernie is the first Democrat in over two and a half decades to demand a return to the Progressive values that have long been suppressed by the Neoliberal inspired leadership of the DNC. No mystery as to why major Corporations and wealthy oligarchs have been so successful at expanding their dominance within our country given that both have had the full unquestionable cooperation of both major political parties !

Never underestimate the destructive power of the Fox propaganda network. I have close friends and family that have been totally brainwashed by the hogwash dispensed by this highly effective Fascist weapon. Professional intervention well beyond my ability will be required to bring them back to fact based political reality.

I'm not trying to be funny here, I'm dead serious, they're really brainwashed, and I have an intense hatred for Fox and the corpse media in general for doing this to otherwise very nice but vulnerable people. There's nothing funny about watching those close to you vote themselves into poverty, while at the same time making extreme concentration of wealth easier for the Fascist few.

I'd like to call attention to a recent propanganda maneuver committed by the corpse media . A few outlets were describing the lawless and well armed militia in Oregon as "Occupiers"????? This was an attempt to defame the very patriotic Occupy Movement. The Oregon Militia participants are the antithesis of the true Occupiers who participated in protests a few years ago.

Bernie has run a great campaign and used the alternative media to the max.

But there are still large masses of voters who get their sense of reality from TV.

Lets hope Bernie has a stratagy to reach them.

Hillary has obviously invested a lot of energy into her appearance, and appearance

counts for many votes in the TV medium.

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I have attended countless Democratic meeting where they have bemoaned the absence of the youth and asked how can we attract them? How about giving them a candidate they believe in? Bernie brought out the voters the Democrats are looking for. If the Democrats ignore them and their interests, we'll go back to the 20% participation we've had for several decades. They want Bernie and don't want Hillary. The institutional Democrats believe they can substitute Hillary and it will all be good. They are wrong. Bernie will also get the cross over voters that Hillary won't. I have a Republican brother and an Independent brother. Both are going to register as Democrats so they can vote for Bernie in the NM Primary. They will not vote for Hillary. Though anecdotal, they represent those who will determine this election.

Way to go Bernie! .... Damn gald he's running .... thanks toThom Hartmann/ FSTV/Democracy Now and affiliates for the pump up.... It's refreshing and encouraging to see Amercias new generation of youth taking the helm.. They're not as stupid as their parents who bought the narratives of popular media and this narrative for constant war to steal the worlds resources for themselves in the name of American Interest, that the masses get no share of.

Now we just need Americas new generation of youth to tune in too Professor Richard Wolff... Like in the Movie Terminator "Capitalism is the VIRUS", this is why it was forbidden by Divine in scripture as a financial tool for trade a.k.a USURY

10 Atta-Boys to Bernie!

Thom. You hit the nail on the media head. I can't imgine anyone voting for Criminal Hillaral. Government history is all about change when there exist a huge gap between the haves and have nots. There must me a change, even a radical change and Bernie is the only one that will make these changes. When I was in college in 1983, the gap between the wealthy and the poor was groing at 17% anually. As a country, we are way off balance.

Change does not come easy for those who are used to buying politicians to get more wealth.

If I had placed Flint water in a Michigan legislator's office water pitchers for the last year, where would my new residence be?

FOR republicans across the nation - people are cost savings per unit - and nothing more.

Thom: What most people don't know is that football IS getting safer. According to the National Federation of High Schools, there was a 40% drop in concussions in middle school and high school football players in 2015. The teaching of tackling has changed, and the punishments for targeting is changing the game for the better. As for safer games, soccer and rugby have much higher incidence of concussions than does football. Changing the rules is the way to go, not banning it. If one doesn't want to play a rough sport, then don't play it. Don't take away options for our young people.

I'll NEVER understand the mindset of Racist white folks, who elected these Republican's into office, even after SUFFERING economic cuts to their state's education system, and City Services. What has taken place in Flint, is nothing short of what's happening all over America!

Here in Oklahoma, Earthquakes have increased over 100%, because of FRACKING, yet they voted Fallon back into office, along with the Majority of Republican's controlling our State Legislature!

I BELIEVE our votes are being MANIPULATED, because its mind boggling, to believe with all this suffering going on, these people go out to the polls and RE-ELECT these Robber Baron's, all while they are destroying our environment, and RAISING our Cost of Living, FORCING the citizens of this state, to PAY FOR the DAMAGE they have caused and created.

I keep asking myself ... WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICAN'S whom elect these bums into office? I'll never understand this kind of stupidity!

It's quite clear the corpse media and business as usual moneyed interests want a Clinton vs Rubio race for the White house, this knowing that Rubio will win. I think both the Dems and Teapublican Party manipulated the results in Iowa. The polls couldn't have been that far off on Rubio in particular. Trump is a loose cannon admitting to buying politicians and having out of control greed..he brags about it...his Fascist peer group won't stand for this admission which spotlights the immoral ways of the group as a whole, so it looks like they'll remove Trump early.

Bush won twice with tbird world tactics. Rove got stopped by our friends at Anonymous, otherwise the dictionary definition of a Fascist, Mr Citizens United, "Mitt Romney," would have been in the White House. We need NATO to oversee our elections, and at the very least, eliminate digital/computer voting machines....a paper trail needs to always exist. Revolution is finally in the air! ....and Bernie will do it if the elections aren't rigged.

So! All americans have guns...

Why you don't shoot the oppressors?

That's the american way