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Sanders wants to create vibrant democracy

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The Revolution of 2016 is the subject of a recent song by Depeche Mode, “Where’s the Revolution,” lamenting the lost opportunity to elect U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders president. Also out this year and available at Citizens library, is Sanders’ book “Our Revolution,” and it is much more hopeful.

The first part recounts last year’s Democratic primary campaign that resulted in its most progressive platform in American history, and the second part concludes with humanity at a crossroads.

“We can continue down the current path of greed, consumerism, oligarchy, poverty, war, racism, and environmental degradation. Or we can lead the world in moving in a very different direction,” Sanders writes.

Sanders spent part of last Saturday night inspiring a large crowd in Pittsburgh’s David Lawrence Convention Center to get to work creating “a vibrant democracy where knowledgeable citizens actively debate the great challenges they face.” Certainly no one is working harder than Sanders and, despite the chants of “Bernie! Bernie!” at the rallies, he knows it is not about him, but the needs of the American people.

Meanwhile, history is repeating itself in the nation’s capital, where a dishonest president is trying to cover up a fraudulent election. This time, instead of Cuban-American CIA operatives as in 1972, it was Russian hackers breaking into Democratic campaign headquarters under orders from President Vladimir Putin.

Attempts were also made to alter voting results electronically, and it is already abundantly clear there was coordination with the Trump campaign. These facts are not going to go away. Nixon resigned in 1974, while the expiration date for President Trump is 2018. But neither Democrats nor Republicans are saying much about it yet.

Jim Greenwood

Washington

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