america's problem is one of complacency. so long as there is money and food in the grocery store america will believe what it sees in the media. dems have done a poor job of educating the electorate ptherwise, and heck ya, bernie is right on. until we return to the tax code in place before ronald reagan took office there will not be a middle class and the rich will not pay their fare share.

No one wants the US government to take over businesses (true socialism), but socialist health insurance - Medicare for all - is a great idea. Members of Congress and the military have it. It takes advantage of economies of scale with the largest possible risk pool, much better than having many insurance companies with multiple data and payout systems. It's working around the world, including countries with free market economies.

This aricle is nonsense. Americans that count, the halfwits that live in Wyoming, the Dakotas, Montana, etc prefer the plutocracy we have. Only the second class citizens of the the large population areas want any type of social programs.

As one of the great liberal presidents of post WWII pointed out it is all about the Military Industrial Complex. Or as they say in the not-so-great Federal District Of Wall Street: "It's all about the money boys and girls!" Neither Iraq or Afghanistan are generating enough profits! We need a brand new and bigger war dropping lots of bombs and putting more bullets to the pound into the "collateral causalities of war" than ought to be allowed by international law (0). It is all hype to justify making these Wall Street "money junkies" and other perverse fetish fiends their tons of flesh lots and lots of money upon the death of innocents and destruction of nations in response to the only aphrodisiac stamped into our genetic code: the lust for wealth and power!

I received a Presidential Invitation to join in the "fun in the sun" of war in Southeast Asia. It was then known as a duty of each and every male citizen to serve in the military when "asked" - those of us who went did so because we had no other recourse. The vast majority of our fellow males at the time were able to get some sort of deferment that allowed them to literally dodge the bullets and throw the weight they should have been carrying onto the backs of those of us who went (Trump, G W Bush, Cheney, Bill Clinton are the worst offenders among them all). To say that conscription is unfair is an understatement predicated upon the fact that war is insane and totally indiscriminate who it kills, maims and/or totally obliterates. To say that I am still outraged some 47 years after my taste of war is accurate. I will be outraged until the day that I die. You see I am a 100% disabled service connected veteran. That means that the medical problems I am fighting today and will probably die from are all the direct and proximate result, according to the federal government, of my time in Vietnam. In a sense for me and others like me our time as soldiers in a war has never ended and we are still serving against our will.

The most distressing part is I look about and now see that service to our corrupt American Empire is no longer put forth as a duty. The Madison Avenue types have now framed it as a privilege to volunteer to be a henchman for The Henchman Of The American Empire. The people who actually get their hands bloody while Wall Street types kept their manicured hands clean in finger bowls of gin and vermouth. Got a lousy economy locally? Dumbed down high school was the last stop on the Train Of Functionally Literate Public Education? The American Empire has just the job for you: Soldier, Sailor, Or Airperson! Military Occupational Specialty: Cannon Fodder. Job Description: soften up enemy combatants and civilians (especially women, babies, other children and old men) before we throw our real military might at them: killer technology controlled from off of the battlefield.

Follow the orders: they run from Wall Street to a Trump White House in a luxury tower or estate and back to Wall Street where the CEO Of the Empire's rubber stamp of approval "magically" turn into profits for Robber Barons and their minions. (Never mind the blood, guts and Death stuff, never mind! Do not think of that stuff. It is bad for you ... err us.) Remember: "It takes War to Build A Glorious Homeland." George W. Smith*, 43rd CEO Of The Empire.

*Name changed by Department Of Homeland Security to protect the guilty. T--mp = Donald J. Stamp.

Mike Pense looks and acts like a "robotic doll!"

This is furhter evidence that Obamacare shouild be replaced with a single-payer (universal) Medicare-For-All Program. This should be easy to pass, because most American adults are already familiar with what Medicare offers (based on their parents' experiences with it).

The biggest problem facing the Democrat Party is the Democrat Party. Until you washed up lefties quit being victims, and take responsibility for your destiny, you will NEVER succeed.

The Democratic Party is only nominally progressive. As long as the party and candidates raise funds from corporate lobbyists, principles will always be sacrificed. For Democrats to distinguish themselves from Republicans, they need to become dedicated champions of real systemic reforms. Proportional representation is one of the reforms that is required to bring a significant degree of demcracy to the United States. The corruption of gerrymandering could be eliminated by the fundamental reform of voting for a party rather than for individual candidates. If the Democratic party wins 50 percent of the statewide vote, then the Democratic party would by an internal election choose the individuals to send to the House of Representatives equal to one-half of the allocated seats.

Bravo, Unc! You hit it squarely on the head!

Do I think that the DNC will arrive at any form of useful reform? Short answer: No. Why? Because the Democratic Party is/was supposed to be on the side of the best interests of working men and women (to include unions). What part of "Corporate Democrat" says best interests of working men and women? Oh, they may agree on some window dressing reforms, but substantively, as long as Perez and any holdovers from the Wasserman-Schultz era are still in the mix, they are going to be pulling for their donors. The ONLY fundamental change that would really matter is that all ties to corporate anything be cut off forever, and that there would be a full return committment to the tenets of FDR, Single Payer, a toppling of the military-industrial complex and a vacating of war as a means to make the 1% rich. Now, you and I both know this ain't gonna happen. They will get together and rangle around and come up with some impotent bastardization of what should be a full bore reform. Let's just say we've seen this roadshow before and hold out no hope that the right-leaning players will change their allegiances and alliances; some people are just too addicted to money. And let's face the fact that if the DNC thought they could get back into power without making any concessions, they wouldn't even give this commission a second thought; which means their will and their committment to change just really aren't there from the start. But, hey, good luck to Bernie and all those on his team. Any inroads is better than none at all. But I'm willing to bet that if the whole country doesn't wake up, and rise up to demand change, that DJT will get a second term in office and the conservative parade will march on. PS I'm with lloydvon and tomcalwriter.

How are they going to reform the party if nine of the members were chosen by Clinton? Therein lies the problem. They're the ones who NEED to be BOOTED OUT.

The real purpose of the Democratic Party is ensure that progressive agenda is not allowed anywhere near the platform. In this purpose they will succeed.