I don't mean to be glib, but it's a waste of time and energy talking to an establishment elite if one's goal is to effectively confront serious, entrenched, and long-term problems.
The train has left the station folks, and it's heading for certain disaster. It's a matter of time, which no one knows how long that might be. But ordinary folk need to decide now on the three, basic available choices, only one of which in my view offers any hope at all for posterity:
(1) remain on the train, cluelessly or selfishly absorbed in ones's own narcissistic reality;
(2) get off at the next stop, and try to join with a relatively small number of others to find ways to survive the impending disaster, a disaster that you're not only sure is bound to happen, but also one that none of us common folk can possibly do anything about it - it's just too late; or,
(3) rally, beseech, and organize around a core set of principles with as many people as possible in one's local communities, network and develop sufficient consensus with other communities around the country around these core issues and strategies, and then begin a glorious effort to collectively in great numbers commandeer the train, ultimately steering it into safer pastures so that the long task of creating sane insitutions on this planet can have a chance to reign.
And let me give you a hint: number three is the only hope for saving the most people from destitution or worse, and perhaps the planet itself. Clearly, Bill Bradley, and anyone in his stratosphere, will strongly resist option three. Ergo, it's a waste of time to comisserate with such people, because all you'll get is either inanity, propaganda, or misdirection. And by the way, these people don't need to be educated by the likes of Chris, or anybody else. In fact, what they need, we can't give them: humility, a heart, and an evolved moral conscience.