Couldn't agree more.

bernie is the one that got away

He never ''got away''. He'd never fit into what 'some' required, hence her getting the gig.
Sadly.

Buy Litecoin.

I understand it was a vote for the establishment. However last time I checked Clinton did get more votes than Trump so clearly not so such a two fingered gesture as it seems.

As for Clinton. Centre left? That's stretching my understanding of that term, to say the least. It was a rejection of the idea that you can somehow marry the interests of corporate America with those of working class. The irony is that Trump voters gave the keys to the White House to someone who is a crook, a fraud, a racist, an abuser or women who is unlikely to do improve their standard of living. But he's got four years to prove me wrong.

If Sanders had been Democratic candidate it would have been much clearer to workers what the choices were.

Not at the moment but when the impossibility of building walls, blaming immigrants for everything is tried and tested and fails to bring a solution to people's conditions the idea of an alternative that puts people first and tries to solve problems through co-operation across frontiers will become more attractive.

What amazes me is how anyone is surprised that if you have free movement of goods, services and capital you then get a surge of poor people following the money.

Free trade and free movement would logically lead to a levelling out of wealth across the world. That's why it's unpopular in the wealthier half of the world. But maybe if free trade worked better for poorer countries it would retain more of its population. I'm paying the same for a pair of trousers now that I did in 1980. There is a price to pay for free trade. But rather than putting up walls we would be better off co-operating to sustain people in their place of birth because no one really finds it easy to abandon everything they're familiar with in order to be an immigrant somewhere else.

As for Turkey, I live in the UK but I follow its news closely. What it has is a leader who is paranoid, sees enemies everywhere, and is constantly falling out with allies and shifting allegiances, the American's are about to find out what that's like unfortunately. But at least they can turf him out in four years time.