Robert Reich, who served as Labor Secretary under former President Bill Clinton as given his formal endorsement of Bernie Sanders, saying “I believe Bernie Sanders is the agent of change this nation so desperately needs.”
He went on to say, “He’s leading a movement to reclaim America for the many, not the few. And such a political mobilization — a ‘political revolution,’ as he puts it — is the only means by which we can get the nation back from the moneyed interests that now control so much of our economy and democracy.
“This extraordinary concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top imperils all else — our economy, our democracy, the revival of the American middle class, the prospects for the poor and for people of color, the necessity of slowing and reversing climate change, and a sensible foreign policy not influenced by the ‘military-industrial complex,’ as President Dwight Eisenhower once called it. It is the fundamental prerequisite: We have little hope of achieving positive change on any front unless the American people are once again in control.”
He also said that he, “holds the deepest respect for Hillary Clinton” and saying he’d support her if she wins the nomination — Reich said he sees Sanders as the candidate best able to upend “the establishment,” which he described in a blog post this as “all of the people and institutions that have wielded significant power over the American political economy, and are therefore deemed complicit.”
So, there you have it people, a man that served in the Clinton administration supporting Bernie Sanders as best hope for real change.
I cannot imagine a more important endorsement.
Ritchard York
Colrain