Bernie Sanders announced on his Facebook page that he is running for President of the United States.

I am running for President of the United States because America needs a political revolution. We need a government which represents all of us, and not just a handful of billionaires. In this campaign we won’t have the support of the big-money interests, Wall Street or the military-industrial complex. That’s why I need you to join me in an unprecedented grass-roots effort. Sign up at my new website – BernieSanders.com

I take this campaign very seriously. It is not a campaign to move some other candidate in a desired direction, It is a for real campaign to become President and finally put the course of this nation back on the right track.

When we campaigned for Barack Obama in his first campaign, we knew that the nation was in serious trouble. It wasn’t really obvious how serious the trouble was until after Barack Obama actually won the election. By the time he was sworn in, it wasn’t even obvious that the world economy would avoid its destruction.

Now that we know the history of the period and the aftermath, we can appreciate that the change Obama promised was not enough. We can no longer afford to have a President who fails to see just how crucial it is to rein in the power of the oligarchs. A President who refuses to prosecute criminal behavior on Wall Street, and one who thinks we are wrong to oppose an even more devastating trade pact than we have ever had before is not the kind of President we can afford to elect for the foreseeable future.

If anybody who is politically to the right of Bernie Sanders were to get elected President, the prospects for this country would be very dim indeed. If you think that more bipartisanship and splitting the differences between the two opposing sides is what we need, then you just don’t appreciate how far our country has deteriorated. If you were born after 1980, then I can understand why you have no personal knowledge of what this country once stood for. As I believe Bernie Sanders has said, we won’t have too many more chances to save this country.