Disrespecting Bernie Sanders is not the way to renight the left.

The empty podium was televised when Bernie, not Hillary was giving a speech. Hillary's speech was televised.

One huge factor about the US & politics - is money in politics. All of your conversations are observations and all of the goodness will be suppressed and subversed by corporate power and corporate influence in politics. And it is not just a few billionaires as you stated. Let's consider health care - even with the ACA you couldn't remove profit from health care because of corporate money in politics. Medicare and Medicaid cannot negotiate the price of prescription drugs as it is written into the law - again another example corporate power and influence in politics. I can give you so many examples of corporate money in politics. And until you get money out of politics, you won't get good long lasting reforms. Also it is very important to reform corporations. And I propose that you do three major changes: 1. 50% of corporate executive boards have to be elected from the employees 2. At least 40% of executive boards need to be female or male (hard to achieve 50/50 split) 3. Factor employees into the profit motive of the company - which means we get rid of the mandate of "shareholder value and to do anything to provide shareholders with a growing profit"... It is OK to be profitable, but you don't have to continue to grow your profits - if it causes great suffering for the employees. Since companies make profit from the labor of the employees the employees need to be factored in the profit motive also and have a say in the decision making. And it doesn't mean US employees only - for global companies - it means employees anywhere in the world. So US companies operating in Vietnam or China or Bangladesh need to treat it's workers and subcontractors humanely and pay them fairly. If you take on these three main changes, then you will see a huge shift in corporate culture. And in parallel you need to work on removing money from politics.

It was Bernie, not Hillary who was giving a speech while the press was filming the empty Trump podium.

All the democratic Institutions these guys speak of, that seek revitalization of citizen involvement, the reassociation of not just the white working class, but across all racial, ethnic & religious stripes of the working class, are actions that Bernie & the Sander's Institute are undertaking. I am glad to see that you folks are fellow travellers. Especially in the area of siloism of progressive organizations like Planned Parenthood & Move Left, good to hear that you are on the same page w/ regard to (it pains me to use this p.c. term) intersectionalism. Especially you Mr. Dione, whom has a front row seat to the neverending activism of Mr. Sanders.

Great discussion. Wish I attended!

Excelent forum .

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No doubt this sort of discussion is very comforting to Trump supporters. No serious self-critique on the Left has been forthcoming. Repetitious Trump-baiting sates the appetite instead. Ironically, Trumpism has moved beyond the Republican-Democrat competition and on to the challenge of transforming itself into a centrist-nationalist party. Such a conception may come to dominate American politics in the way FDR's democratic-socialist party enjoyed unbroken rule from 1933 to at least 2016. The timing seems about right, at least, for another American regime change: 1781, 1789, 1865, 1933....2016? In a sense, regime change is a sign of life for the polity--which isn't to say it signifies virtuous life.

Great discussion. But sorry, #BernieWouldHaveWon.

Never in any US Presidential election has issues been more the major discussion. The Republican primary issues were the top carrying message. In the main election- Issues such as Trade, Manufacturing, Immigration, Jobs, Taxes, Housing, Foreign policy, Regulation, Combating ISIS, Iran Sanctions, Healthcare, ObamaCare, Medicare, Economics, NATO, Israel, Corruption, Lobbying, Supreme Court and other issues when anyone asked Trump. In Comparison Hillary Rigged the election against Bernie, and had no policies except the policies of hating Trump. The public have been being lied to for over 100 years by both parties and the truth is not truth of what some deep delusional intelectual thinks is Truth. The people as Jefferson purposed may be led astray but they correct themselves. They have from the very people in this video. "I am persuaded that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.

Even if you got rid of Trump and all the Republicans, you still have to deal with the Neo-Liberals. Lead by the Clinton's.

one nation under our great president

Bernie2020

Wow, that's a lot of middle-aged White people!