Bernie Sanders is a once-in-a-lifetime candidate - the first one in my lifetime with whom I can agree and feel I can trust. Well, maybe there was Obama who's doing what he can, and that's the point. Bernie won't be able to do more, he says, unless he has a Movement or Revolution behind him. And if Bernie doesn't win the nomination and become President we the people will need a Movement or Revolution all the more.

It's not going to be easy. We are dealing with gangsters who see themselves above the law. to stay in control they will unleash a police state that will make Honduras look like a holiday resort. Bernie just spoke at the Vatcan. I thought his message was elegant, honest and frightneing. ... "In the year 2016, the top one percent of the people on this planet own more wealth than the bottom 99 percent, while the wealthiest 60 people - 60 people - own more than the bottom half - 3 1/2 billion people. At a time when so few have so much, and so many have so little, we must reject the foundations of this contemporary economy as immoral and unsustainable." ... The essential wisdom of Centesimus Annus is this: A market economy is beneficial for productivity and economic freedom. But if we let the quest for profits dominate society; if workers become disposable cogs of the financial system; if vast inequalities of power and wealth lead to marginalization of the poor and the powerless; then the common good is squandered and the market economy fails us. Pope John Paul II puts it this way: profit that is the result of "illicit exploitation, speculation, or the breaking of solidarity among working people . . . has not justification, and represents an abuse in the sight of God and man." (Para43). ... A Message of Hope: My Speech at the Vatican By Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News, 16 April 16 Okay, so what will this "Movement or Revolution" look like? Will all the single issue groups come together? Will it be leaderless like Occupy? For my own sake I am trying to keep track of groups, parties and movements that may come together and/or be the "Movement or Revolution" that is needed.

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