Posted on 08/02/2015 5:54:55 PM PDT by Mariner
"He can't possibly win the nomination," is the phrase heard most often when Washington insiders mention either Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders.
Yet as enthusiasm for the bombastic billionaire and the socialist senior continues to build within each party, the political establishment is mystified.
They don't understand that the biggest political phenomenon in America today is a revolt against the "ruling class" of insiders that have dominated Washington for more than three decades.
In two very different ways, Trump and Sanders are agents of this revolt. I'll explain the two ways in a moment.
Don't confuse this for the public's typical attraction to candidates posing as political outsiders who'll clean up the mess, even when they're really insiders who contributed to the mess.
What's new is the degree of anger now focused on those who have had power over our economic and political system since the start of the 1980s.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
The 2016 elections will transform the political landscape.
Sanders? Agent of revolt? Yeah, the hard COMMUNIST revolt. Sanders should move to Cuba or Venezuela where he belongs.
I’d say if Sanders could go and bring order and productivity to Venezuela, people should listen to him. Even Robert cannot praise the revolution in Venezuela with a straight face although the exact policies he has always supported have created the human tragedy in Venezuela.
Trump and the Tea Party as the Wreckers, Sanders and the Occutards as the Rebuilders, Mr Reich? It seems a little backwards. Perhaps you are doing a bit of projection on the sly, Mr Reich?
Yeah, and nary a mention of illegals or trade.
This started out as an interesting article...then it turned into a bunch of outright lies...
Typical liberal tactic: Subsume and subvert.
It was true in the days of the railroads and canal companies back in the early 19th Century. Heck, doing eminent domain deals for private companies is how Lincoln became a Senator.
Sanders has been a paid fulltime professional politician since 1981 - and in Congress since 1993. But he’s an outsider and not part of the ruling class. Lol.
Bernie is about as much of an outsider as Hillary.
I thought Trump articles at HP where in the entertainment section? LOL, HP has been Trumped!
Run, Hillaryous, run.
“What’s new is the degree of anger now focused on those who have had power over our economic and political system since the start of the 1980s.”
LOL. Huffington had to blame it on Reagan, even though there are some good points in the article.
What is laughable is that Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon and Carter did not represent the Ruling Class. LBJ and Nixon created the administrative tools for the ruling class to truly rule.
Here’s another laugher—he misses 2/3 of the private sector cronies.
“The other half of the ruling class comprises the corporate executives, Wall Street chiefs, and multi-millionaires who have assisted and enabled these political leaders — and for whom the politicians have provided political favors in return.”
The other half of the ruling class includes corporate executives, unions and NGO’s. Cronyism extends across all of those groups. Don’t let progressives get away with just indicting corporate cronyism. Planned Parenthood, ACORN, and the various environmental groups all live off the taxpayers and are good recent example.
And yet another laugher.
“The Occupy movement, which also emerged from the Wall Street bailout, was intent on displacing the ruling class and rebuilding our political-economic system from the ground up.”
The Occupy movement was dedicated to keeping the existing structure of power centralization and government overreach but putting their guys in charge. They don’t understand—nor does Reich—that the overreach and centralization of power and money is itself, the problem. Give OWS power and they become the problem. Give R’s the power and they become the problem. Give Obama power and he becomes the problem.
Power corrupts. It even corrupts self-identified, sincere, moral, OWSer’s.
“Which means the ruling class will have to change the way it rules America.”
How about they try to give up power and stop ruling?
The Uniparty Ruling Class really does think the peasants are revolting.
Whistling in the wind past Bernies graveyard.
>>>What’s new is the degree of anger now focused on those who have had power over our economic and political system since the start of the 1980s<<<
Yes Robert, it’s all Ronald Reagans fault.
We see what you did there.
What a friggin Mini Maroon.
No, we've felt this way for a long time. It's just that nobody listens.
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