New Delhi, March 24 -- "The problems we face did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them."

This line by Bernie Sanders does not comfort you. It challenges you. It removes every excuse. It says that suffering is not fate, poverty is not destiny, and injustice is not the natural order of things. It says someone built this. And, what someone built, someone can fix.

Sanders did not say this from a place of optimism. He said it from a place of anger. It's the kind of quiet, sustained anger that comes from watching the same problems repeat themselves for decades. Meanwhile, those in power shrug and call it inevitable.

The repetition in the quote is delibera...