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I love Bernie, but he isn’t effective… hopefully this time he will be, but I don’t see anything he says being shared online
He's one person, you can't change the system without the people being on your side. After the Watergate scandal, and subsequent ~~Regan~~ Nixon resignation and evisceration in the media, fox News showed up.
Between Fox News and all the other misinformation floating around today, the landscape is much different than when people like Martin Luther King Jr. were involved in the civil rights movement.
Basically, it's easy to lie and sling mud, but much harder to fight with facts when the internet can spread lies at a blistering speed around the world through social media.
We are watching one man change the system without the people. So, I disagree. Bernie just needs to say aloud what we are all thinking.
Trump is a symptom, not a cause. Of course his rhetoric and abrasive disregard for the law has emboldened others to be more direct in their hate, but if Trump were to die today these problems wouldn't just magically disappear.
Thats the problem; there's a lot of people who aren't thinking the same things that Bernie says. Those people give Trump his power. He's nothing without a backing.
There's a lot of politicians and corporate media who aren't thinking the same things Bernie says. There are a lot of people -- including quite a few who currently support Trump -- who would be thinking the same things Bernie says, if they became aware of the possibility.
That scares the fuck out of both the Republicans and the corporatist Democrats, though, which is why even though Bernie draws huge crowds he gets such little media airtime.