Comments on: Game over for Sanders? It needn’t be https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/game-sanders-neednt/2016/03/10 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 10 Mar 2016 23:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Clay Forsberg https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/game-sanders-neednt/2016/03/10/comment-page-1#comment-1559490 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 23:22:01 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=54756#comment-1559490 Even though the peer-to-peer movement espouses some of the principles as Bernie Sanders, I don’t see how the two correlate. I see his attraction to younger generations because of his stance on free education, even if it is virtually impossible to implement. His position on Wall Street falls in line with the anti-big business rhetoric of Occupy Wall Street which definitely skewed young. So I see the connection there.

But the peer-to-peer movement by definition is much more along the lines of the Nobel Prizing winning economist Elinor Ostrom who advocated for a third type of governance, one of the commons managed directly by the people. Sanders is nowhere near that. In fact, he’s on the opposite end of the spectrum with government getting bigger putting more power at the top of the hierarchy.

I’d love to see Sander’s supporters actually become more Libertarian since the pure Libertarian vision is more control locally resulting in governance by the people directly. If we can take advantage of the “coming together of the youth” and channel them in a true peer-to-peer direction … then we might truly have a societal evolution.

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