Populists: support the Democratic Socialists of America!

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13. I happily claim to be a populist/progressive

and I believe representative democracy is sufficient to restrain the billionaires and Wall Street, Bankers, Corporations etc..
Of course I know that money builds power and becomes for many their primary driving force. I also know that those with larger amounts of money become elitist and want to control those around them in many ways that provide satiation and proof in their eyes at least that they and their rich class are superior. Throughout the history of mankind there have been battles waged between the very rich who have often taken almost everything for themselves by creating division and trampling the dignity of others of less fortune. We may talk of Marx as the start of this class warfare but it started long before Marx in this country. People in the Colonies before our revolution knew well this crushing by the rich, they called it "grinding the face of the poor". Today we keep hearing middle class as if we really are middle class, just a lie we tell ourselves as we proceed to get poorer and poorer. The rich at every turn are willing to take away our dignity, grinding our face again and again to suit their purposes.
I believe that progressive measures are sorely needed to restore what at times has been much closer to a representative democracy. I believe that the needs of our people must be paramount over the greed for money and power of the rich. As a progressive democrat who wants his party moved more to the left, I am very happy to know that we actually have greater consensus with the democratic socialists, the Greens, and socialists, the Black Lives Matter supporters etc.. I am also thrilled that we have begun to coalesce around agreed ideas and the knowledge of what we as a people believe based on polls.
A unified class movement is arising against the misdeeds and crimes of the rich. It did not start or will not end with Bernie who bravely and defiantly says the name. Yesterday I, a man of 67, happily went on a canvass for volunteers with young people in their early 20s to mid 30s. Yes they have enthusiasm but most importantly, we of great age differences can unite in a vision of service to ideals expressed by a democratic socialist but accepted as belief across most of our country's people. We were very successful in recruiting volunteers in a neighborhood where we had been much less successful in the past when we campaigned for Obama. Today's young people and many of the old see a change is needed and many of us rush to make that change because in every human is a need to feel they are doing the right thing for our people and the world. It is so clear that the rich must be stopped. We Progressives, Greens, Working Peoples Party, New Black Panthers, Socialists, Black Lives Matter, Democratic Socialists, Democrats and those of you who call yourselves Independents etc. and etc., we must unite and win this fight. We all share a very similar vision. It is time to start making that vision with this common recognition. We must no longer let the rich divide people by supposed economic class or race.
Go Bernie!