Thread by @skyfishgoo

you want to know what happened, i can show you.

https://twitter.com/Unpersuaded112/status/1016003945184026624

first @thedemocrats and @GOP swapped places.

this was called the #southernstrategy and is what got Reagan elected.

anyone remember the #moralmajority? (which was neither, btw)

then, @TheDemocrats proceeded to sidle up to the corporations, eventually over taking the role of corporate money funnel to drain the 99% of any hope for retirement, health security, or peace.

all whilst while china wealthy and building their middle class.

eventually this went on long enough that the #GOP was squeezed into every more extreme policy positions in order to present themselves as some kind of alternative to voters...

which leads directly to #trump, one of the most extreme and frankly suicidal presidents we've ever had

the result is a vacuum of representation on the LEFT

enter @SenSanders w/ moderate sane policies

many of which we USED to do, or other countries NOW do, & worked quite well

he's of course labeled an extremest loon by the establishment - as you do - and pushed out of the race

what next as the power vacuum is filled by someone who'll represent the PEOPLE again, to correct this malignant course we are on?

will it be #bernie?

in many ways, he has already started the change by unleashing the idea of something better being possible.

LANE ENDS
MERGE LEFT

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