How the People Could Fund a Real Revolution

"Vermont Sen. Bernard (Bernie) Sanders financed his entire $200 million campaign on small donations and nearly gained the nomination. He showed for the first time in the modern era that a candidate for high office need not sell out to the plutocracy to obtain electoral power."

Ya, well that didn't work did it. 200 million and what's to show for it? Hillary Clinton. Sure, some of the diehards will say Bernie's "revolution" and the money spent laid the groundwork for a political revolution while educating the public about the issues of wealth inequality and economic fairness.

Nah, the public knew damn well. Bernie was just one of the few POLITICIANS who said it, that doesn't mean the public didn't know. People sitting in their apartments eating food bought by food stamps watching the television can see the yachts and the mansions and the extreme gap in wealth in this country and the world. Everybody knows the bankers run the place so that's nothing new. They knew that 100 years ago. 200.

And the only groundwork laid was that straight to the Democratic party.

No, what Bernie Sanders really showed was that if the Serfs wanted to get together and raise enough money to take action OUTSIDE the electoral process, we could do it. Imagine if all those $27 donations went toward a real anti-imperialism effort or a climate change effort or a anti-gangster capitalism effort, or even an effort to implement real democracy in this country. $200 million toward a people's movement would really be something. Instead it's fucking wasted on an election farce.

Kind of reminds me of when The Intercept was born. Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahil and those along with their billionaire benefactor, Pierre Omidyar who pledged $250 million toward the overall project. I remember saying at that time that we could better use that money toward a people's movement to take down the oligarchy. Not another so called alternative news outlet that wasn't really alternative. I've never read that site.

This shows how ingrained the electoral process is in the heads of the Serfs, how it completely overshadows any outside efforts for a popular citizens movement. Now the same people who sent Bernie Sanders their $27 are sending Jill Stein another $27. On and on it goes, where it stops nobody knows.

Hell with that, send it to me. I'll put it in the bank for the Global People's Revolution.