I've always said our society is a three legged stool. One leg is government, one leg is business, and one leg is the people.
If you look at our history the scale was last this way out of whack in the 1920's and it led to the Great Depression. And we came damned close to the same thing just 8 years ago.
Only a World War and progressive, democratic socialist policies brought us through that nightmare and into the golden years that many seem to still pine for. I wish for the same progress again, only this time including everyone, not just the chosen race.
But for the past 40 years, the people leg of the stool has been shortened and the business leg of the stool lengthened which has allowed them to buy the government leg and enlist its help to keep the stool off balance.
I get that Bernie is selling pie in the sky ideas like universal health care and free higher education like most other developed nations. I get that it won't happen tomorrow. But it's time to tilt the stool back towards a workable equilibrium.
Since I've been old enough to be aware of politics, it seems the stool has been unbalanced in one direction and now it's about ready to fall over.
Time to balance the damned stool.