We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere.

Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.

Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.

Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

Big Oil, Wall Street and big business as a whole - they stand in the way of the kinds of change needed. They are fiercely against the radical reforms Bernie Sanders is popularizing.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.