Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1825 to William Branch Giles of “vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.”

We formed this union to serve the needs of all the people not the needs of the few whose goal is to concentrate wealth and control…by any means necessary. Bernie has created some momentum and the task before us is to stay the course for those who follow.