“Some of the proposals Obama made tonight point in the right direction, on taxing the rich, on providing a free community college education, paid sick and maternity leave, and municipal broadband,” Sawant began. But “how will he get any serious measure to tax the wealthy or against climate change past the entrenched an undemocratic power of Wall Street and big business?”

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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