Last night Rachel Maddow made a good point about Sanders. Of he stays in the Democratic party when he returns to the Senate, that is a big win for the Democrats. It will also be good for him, because he will have a party to support his platform. And it will bring all those Bernie supporters into the tent. As I have said often, they are the future leaders of the party.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich