In spirit, modern day Bernie and his people are simply, old style ‘Levelers’.
Of old tradition, but Bernie's social democrats are our ‘Levelers’ of today. Not unknown in history 'Levellers' come a lot like we can see within the present threat of spiritual levelling that is opposing to some of the royalists inside TM right now... ‘Royalists v practitioners’. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : LEVELLERS: Levellers were a group with ideas based more on reason than on spirituality. They believed in equality, and argued for the leveling, or equalizing, of the social conditions of all people. They advocated democracy, freedom of religion, and universal voting rights for men. Early proponents of “one man, one vote,” they were the first group to advocate extending voting rights to men who did not own land. They practiced what Leveller leader Richard Overton called “Practical Christianity”–direct action against all forms of oppression. Many soldiers of Cromwell’s New Model Army, disappointed that the social change they had fought for did not come about under Cromwell’s rule, became Levellers. The ideas of the Levellers were threatening to the rich and privileged classes, and to all landowners.
