Washington Post says: You Suck

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In the person of Jim Hoagland:

Bernie was one of all of us who refused to vote for politicians who would raise our taxes and make the nation live within its means, even as we went to war. Bernie was one of all of us who did not demand more diligent supervision of financial markets as long as the outsize returns kept flowing. And in his own special way, Bernie was one of all of us who wasted energy in myriad forms, kept on consuming imported goods even when it meant going into debt to foreign lands that do not wish us well, and cut budgets for regulatory and law enforcement agencies even in the fat years.

So we got what we didn't pay for, too. And so will our children.

So through the link you'll find a reply by high-falutin' poet John Milton, but I prefer the down home straight talk from our own Fifthfiend:

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Apathy horseshit, show me where any given person is supposed to be able to accomplish anything with any amount of effort without being steamrolled by one or another tool of elite power and then we can talk about apathy. People get used to being shit on because they have no not-getting-shit-on options, and then whenever any one of them gathers up the temerity to point that out, a dozen people being shit on just as much turn around and tell them it's their fault for being an attractive place for the people who rule us to shit.