PS Technically, Jackson killed the Second Bank of the U.S., not Hamilton's

Oh never mind

I was addressing the content of the Guardian article

The individual personalities and contexts are different, but this disparate collection of parties and candidates feed on the same discontent. Usually the voters rallying to populist insurgents are those who feel failed by conventional politics, left behind either economically or culturally. They are the ones whose incomes have been squeezed, whose jobs have been shipped abroad or who simply have seen their neighbourhoods transformed before their eyes, by a changing, diversifying population. 

For many of those angry white males this is deeply unsettling. A society that gives a prominent and equal place to, say, black men or gay women can seem to contradict the values in which these traditionalists (some would want to call them reactionaries) were raised. Put more harshly, one of the consolations available to a straight, white, working-class American man of the past was the knowledge that there were others below him in the social hierarchy. He was in a society that validated him above the gay, the non-white and the female. Now that knowledge, along with the job and the affordable home, has gone. Recall that the title of a landmark book on white southerners in the age of civil rights was There Goes My Everything.

Buzz! Thanks for playing. You cannot mock people at dag, but you can mock what they write. You can even call what they write foolish.

I think we've all written foolishly at times, though none of us are fools.

Pssssst!!!!  Bernie doesn't have a strategy except the one you already mentioned --> That millions of people will show up in Washington and....(presumably that will change EVERYTHING.-- including, I guess, the Constitution)   1.  All Congresscritters will slink home to count their money and do nothing at home instead of in Congress. 2.  The millions hanging around in the DC Mall will a) vote in all of Bernie's ideas. B) Elect from amongst themselves, people who will vote in Bernie's ideas.  Or C). Bernie just makes the rules and everyone is so happy that no voting is required..  How else is he planning on getting his stuff through.

So I guess this answers Hal's question about what Bernie thinks of the Founding Fathers.

I'm not sure what Mike W meant about the conceit that Bernie not helping downstream Dems is no big deal. He doesn't even give them verbal support; rather he continues to demonize the very party that has made him famous.  Even in terms of perception, when he goes back to the Senate, does he think he will have MORE friends than the one lone person who has endorsed him?  

This being an election year, I find that almost everyone writes about the horse race, not long-term political strategy. Barring a miracle, the House will still be Republican next year, so we will not see any progressive legislation until 2019 at the earliest, no matter who wins the election. The question is what happens after that.

Here is my explanation, based on history, for why Sanders' movement politics would be more effective than Clinton's pragmatic approach at reshaping Congress: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161860

PS Sending money down ticket is not really a strategy. Obama has been doing that for years with little effect.

PPS Enjoy your vacation!