neither sanders nor corbyn are leftists. they're at most center-left moderates. before history came to an end, they would have been in the mainstream of their respective parties.

i think we're just learning that the truth is that history isn't over, after all.

and, that maybe it was kind of....stupid....to think that it was.

rather, the elites have just steered the spectrum to a point of total disconnect - both from reality and from voters. this needs to be corrected.

we saw the same thing in canada, who maybe experienced the first correction. the liberals moved right in the 90s, along with everybody else. history was over! starting around 2004, the electorate started moving from the liberals to the ndp, the nominal left-wing protest party. this ended up electing the conservatives. the ndp got opposition status in 2011, even. it took the liberals ten years to figure out that we still have history to write, and realign themselves to the center-left.

there's a helluva campaign slogan:

"it's time to make history again."

i think that may be more than an ironic turn of phrase, too. i think it might have some serious potential to tap into something, to mobilize something.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/27/larry-bernie-sanders-jeremy-corbyn_n_8860508.html