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.

What Bernie Sanders is calling for is incredibly important. Things like a $15/hour minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, taxing the rich, and free education. The radical reforms he has popularized are a key part of any socialist program today.

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

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

There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it.

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

We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.