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He thinks many corporations seek and benefit from corporate welfare while ordinary citizens are denied opportunities and a level playing field.

That was cemented into the minds of voters when the elites bailed out Wall Street. Nobody, right or left, wanted them to do it. But they did it anyway. Hence most of or fellow citizens have decided that the "free market" is a crock. End result: Bernie Sanders has a real shot.

Stole my post and then some. That move alone made EVERYONE I know who isn’t a 1%er absolutely furious with Wall Street and very jaded about defending capitalism. Sanders’ heart is as right as most of his solutions are wrong, and people see that. Even those like me who are alarmed at his blatant communism are being tempted to put him in power just to give a well-deserved kick in the pants to the fatcats.

Hence most of or fellow citizens have decided that the "free market" is a crock.

It started before the 2007-2009 market melt, long before.

The cronyism and back-rubbing began after the 1987 Crash; by 1995 we were hearing whispers about "the Greenspan Put", which gradually coarsened into the money-bombing of "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke. Plots against gold, killer Punisher strikes against the commodities market to prop up the dollar and kill the people hedging against Greenspan's/Bernanke's "repression" policies -- the house is crooked, the dice are crooked, the games are rigged. How many ways are there to say it? Goldman Sachs shall be served, and what they are served are the broken and barbecued bodies of savers, investors, and traders. Long live the Great Vampire Squid, and tough luck to everybody else.