“I think that it’s about time that voters got a glimpse of reality, which is what’s happening, and President Clinton did that. It was a strong call to arms, particularly to her supporters — and I include myself in that — who have stayed too quiet in the face of those character attacks, and that’s over. What she correctly called the ‘artful smear,’ we need to call attention to,” David Brock, the founder of the Correct The Record rapid response and opposition research group that coordinates with the Clinton campaign, told POLITICO on Monday morning.

In other words, the Clinton Super PACs, the corporatocracy, and Wall Street are ready to pounce. Bernie Sanders will not be treated with kid gloves anymore, and one can expect the kitchen sink to be thrown at him.

Is America at a turning point? Should grassroots movements pushing for a constitutional amendment to rid our politics of Wall Street control and corporate control jump into the Bernie Sanders revolution?

Hillary Clinton has received almost unanimous support and endorsements from the Democratic establishment. Bernie Sanders is a lone ranger attempting to remake the Democratic Party into one that is humane and focused on the middle-class. There is much intersectionality between grassroots movement groups like Move to Amend and others.

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Bernie Sanders said the following in his New Hampshire victory speech:

Tonight we serve notice to the political and economic establishment of this country that the American people will not continue to accept a corrupt campaign finance system that is undermining American democracy and we will not accept a rigged economy in which ordinary Americans work longer hours for lower wages while almost all new income and wealth goes to the top one percent.

That is a large part of the core that many of these grassroots groups are fighting for. Sanders also pointed out that much of the tenets he stands for are trans-partisan and trans-ideological.

The people of New Hampshire have sent a profound message to the political establishment, to the economic establishment, and by the way, to the media establishment. What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics. The people want real change. What the American people are saying, and by the way, I hear this not just from progressives but from conservatives and from moderates, is that we can no longer continue to have a campaign finance system in which Wall Street and the billionaire class are able to buy elections. Americans, Americans, no matter what their political view may be, understand that is not what democracy is about. That is what oligarchy is about. And we will not allow that to continue. I do not have a Super PAC, and I do not want a Super PAC.

Sanders even touched on a subject that many grassroots groups not associated specifically with racial injustice tend to minimize. (Move to Amend makes this a central tenet of its organizing methodology). He said the following:

And when we talk about transforming America, it means ending the disgrace of this country having more people in jail than any other country in the world disproportionately African-American and Latino. Not only are we going to fight to end institutional racism and a broken criminal justice system, we are going to provide jobs and education for our young people, not jails and incarceration.

Sanders unequivocally came out in support of protecting mother Earth. He also took a decidedly non-neocon view of international policy.

The excitement and interest in the Bernie Sanders’ campaign leads one to believe that given the proper impetus, his candidacy and ultimate presidency could create change in the body politic. It could be the necessary catalyst to finally activate an apathetic sleeping giant: The American middle class.

The massive amount of donations to his campaign from the grassroots is probative. This may be that moment in time when grassroots movements need to coalesce with all their might in support of a candidate. Together, they just might start the reversal from a path of fascistic oligarchy toward a real democracy based on the social needs of all Americans.