Back in 2009, the right rose, and we called it the Tea Party.  In 2015, the left is rising, and they call it "Bernie-mania."    Sanders won't get the nomination, but he is showing us something about the modern Democratic Party: this is not your father's Democratic Party or the one that elected FDR, Truman, JFK, LBJ, and even Carter. Sanders has touched a nerve in the left, or the same one that Ralph Nader touched in 2000.   Sanders is telling liberals what they want to hear, as Brent Budowsky posted: In this sense the left is right and the right is wrong, which is why the left is winning and the right is losing the battle of ideas. The right offers an anger-ridden vision of which Americans should be pushed down or locked out,ß while the left offers an uplifting vision that every citizen should have an equal share of the American Dream. This is what fuels the Bernie Sanders summer and creates the...(Read Full Post)