Vermont: But two and a half centuries after the insurrection that birthed America, the idea that a rumpled radical like 73-year-old Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders could overthrow the U.S. economic, health care and tax systems seems farfetched at best, according to CNN. Yet that exactly the task the fiery U.S. senator has set himself in a presidential campaign targeting billionaire "oligarchs" who he says have hijacked America economy and inflicted misery on the middle class. Bernie Sanders says billionaire "oligarchs" have hijacked America economy and inflicted misery on the middle class His fiery brand of politics has netted him a 75% approval rating in Vermont, but how will the rest of America receive him Burlington, Vermont It wouldn't be the first time a revolution sparked in New England changed the world. Sanders, an agitator who doesn't suffer fools, political opponents or journalists gladly, is testing whether the kind of populist, liberal agenda that gave him 75% approval ratings in his adopted home state can catch fire nationwide. The obstacles Sanders faces in the presidential primary race, however, are immense. Bernie Sanders' brotherly love "Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small," Sanders told thousands of supporters in Burlington on Tuesday. "Now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas," Sanders said in an implicit denunciation of the runaway front-runner for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton.
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