A Sanders People's PAC to elect liberal Democrats
By Brent Budowsky
Bernie Sanders can change the course of American history and make the central point of his political revolution the law of the land by creating a People’s Political Action Committee to elect a wave of progressives to Congress, create a liberal Supreme Court majority, reverse the heinous decisions in the Citizens United case and against voting rights, and ignite a surge of small-donor grassroots democracy for America…
There is magic for America in the Sanders small-donor movement, rooted in high patriotism and a push for powerful change. If this magic is expanded to progressives running for the House and Senate on a platform of ending the curse of Citizens United and escalating the cause of voting rights, the result could be a new era of progressive leadership…
The ultimate historic destiny for Bernie Sanders may well resemble William Jennings Bryan, the progressive populist who first ran for president in 1896 against the corruptions of the Gilded Age and was opposed by the oligarchs of that age. Bryan did not become president, but he paved the way for the historic progressive populist triumphs of Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal.
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