Monday, March 21, 2016

SYSTEM ISN’T WORKING FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE

[Senator Bernie] “Sanders ‘is tapping into something that is very
deep and very profound
inside the Democratic Party, which is
this discontent with the system that is no longer producing for everyday
pe
ople,Simon Rosenberg, a Hillary [Clinton] supporter and the head
of NDN (formerly the New Democrat Network), a liberal think tank in
Washington, told me. ‘He has characterized Hillary as a champion of that
system and as somebody who is actually a leader of the system, while he
is the one that wants to change it.Rosenberg added, ‘He's Inot being
perceived as a leftist. He is being perceived as somebody who is I
deeply in touch with a sense that something has gone wrong and that
the
system isnt working.’”



Ryan Lizza, “The Great Divide, Clinton, Sanders and the Future
of the Democratic Party,” New Yorker, March 21, 2016, pp: 38-44 (39).