or how we got to the place where Hillary Clinton, who fought for single payer health care, lectures to us all that we will never ever have single payer health care in this country.
The one time champion of single payer health care, who has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars, from industry insiders of the TBTF banks and the TBTF insurance companies, has at last come to the "reality” that there is no way we will ever be able to change our system.
It’s a funny thing about taking huge “speaking fees”. When you go to speak at the large corporations and industry conferences, You also HAVE To listen to what they tell you. You HAVE to listen to people who are paid very well to convince you to believe what they want you to believe. You have taken their HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars, so you can’t just speak and leave. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THEM as they ply you with wine and food and charm and convince you that it just isn’t practical to try to change the system. After a while, after you’ve amassed MILLIONS of dollars for listening to their very serious, very practical, very “reality” based opinions of what can and cannot be done, YOU find that you have, indeed, come to believe them. It is, after all, in your best financial interests to do so.
That is how the sweet siren song of corruption works.
Bernie has never taken money from these industries. He hasn’t amassed MIILLIONS from speaking and listening fees. He’s never heard the siren song. He’s stayed away from them, and he knows what they don’t want anyone to know, that the real power is in the American people, and if they want something IT CAN AND WILL HAPPEN no matter how much money is spent to keep it from happening.
WE ARE BERNIE!!! #NotMeUs