Bernie Sanders, "political revolution," and corporate Democrats

The PBS Newshour interviewed Bernie Sanders last week: Spending ‘a lot’ on Medicare for All will save people ‘substantial’ money 10/21/2019:

Sanders explicitly describes what he means by wanting a "political revolution." This will be helpful to remember when the corporate Democrats and the Republicans roll out the stock accusations that Sanders wants to guillotine everybody in sight, and other things along that line. From the transcript:

I think that the only way we bring about real change in this country is not within Capitol Hill. What I believe is, we need a political revolution, like the labor movement did in the '30s, like the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the gay movement.

Millions of people have got to stand up and fight for justice. So what our campaign is about is twofold. Number one, I do believe I'm the strongest candidate to beat the worst president in the history of this country, the most dangerous president, Donald Trump.

But ... what I know is that no president, not Bernie Sanders or anybody else, can do it alone.

So, what this campaign is about, it's not just winning the election. It is about building a movement of millions of people who, in fact, will stand up to the greed and corruption of the fossil fuel industry, the drug companies, the insurance companies, the military industrial complex, et cetera.

That is the only way that I know as to how we can bring about real change. We are the only campaign, I think, who goes going forward in that direction. [my emphasis]

To be fair to the corporate Democrats, they and their big donors do oppose the kind of democratic and anti-corporte movement Sanders describes there.

So while their demagoguery against Sanders may be malicious and dishonest, they do understand what his popular programs is and they do oppose it.

That quote is also a good illustration of drawing the populist dichotomy of the People versus the Elite. Sanders' version is left populism, of course.