It Berns
July 16th, 2015 | 
Author: Every time, they say this election is the most important of our lifetime and I’m sure it’s been true of each one.
This one looms and it’s definitely true.
If democrats lose the presidency, we’ll all end up in FEMA camps.
A saw a list a few days ago of top donors for Bernie and Hillary.
Hillary is all banks and Wall Street law firms.
Bernie is all unions.
I’ve said it before, Bernie Sanders is the best presidential candidate of my lifetime. He’s not perfect I know and I have real reservations. I honestly don’t give a mad fuck about his foreign policy experience because I realize that the only existential threat to the American way is greed. ISIS and Iran ain’t got shit on corporate American avarice. My country tis of thee isn’t broke at all. I’m getting tired of pointing this out. There is plenty of money. We spend it on the wrong things and give it to the wrong people.
We the people are broke though. This time it really is the economy stupid. Inequality is always leveraged by the distribution of capital. That’s why we have culture wars. There are actual social democracies where earnest students pay little to nothing to study and healthcare is a right. And they aren’t out of their goddamn minds all the time.
What is working for Bernie now is what will work for him as president. He stumps and big ass happy crowds show up. President Sanders will have to continue all anachronistic like FDR and adopt the bully pulpit as policy. As a tactic. Without losing stride, he keeps talking to the people in public all the time. He has to make the people make him do things and he can only do that if he keeps doing exactly what he’s doing now.
I understand how archaic it is.
He’s a populist, that’s what they do.
Whatever the telegenic euphemism is. Town Hall. Webinar. Cable news. Keep stumping. This is where accountability begins with the elected and ends with the electorate. Bernie Sanders is doing this now. It’s pretty goddamn cool.
Apoplexy if a republican wins. Just look at them. It may or may not get too much worse under plutocrat owned Hillary. Or we can roll the bones for Bernie, who never squanders an opportunity in front of an audience to say say exactly what he’s saying.
Door number one is Donald Trump or Jeb Bush according to today’s forecast. Door number two is Hillary who gave a big 45 minute speech on the economy the other day that was 43 minutes of generic, pine scented air freshener. Low calorie pablum almost indistinguishable from Scott Walker’s announcement that same day. Door number three is Bernie Sanders who hasn’t been fucking kidding for over half a century.
We are in a shit storm here and Bernie Sanders is the only one talking only about the biblical proportions of it. He is the only one talking about what continues to cause it. He actually talks about what happens if we don’t do anything about it. He is the only one talking about what absolutely must be done about it.
Whether or not Bernie Sanders is electable, whether or not he can prevail over whatever bozo the republicans foist is ultimately up to us.
The fulcrum of the sale rarely rests on reason but almost always reclines on romance.
Drinks for my friends.
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I am annoyed that I have to keep telling the same people, over and over again, that Bernie could win this election if people like them would stop being negative and actually do some of the work of getting good candidates elected. I think many of these people also, likely, said Obama would never be elected.
These people are not liberals. They are lazy people who tend to love to spout about what will never work, as if they have some special knowledge about everything. Their approach is often to “talk” to us Bernie supporters as if we are children who still believe in Santa Claus.
I keep posting the 1956 GOP party platform, and it’s eerily like Bernie’s platform today. He IS the only one truly talking about the fundamental issues we face today. He IS the only one with a sense of urgency in his message. He may be our only chance at having a future for our great-grandchildren.
GOOD TO KNOW YOUR ON TOP AND EXPOSING THE POSING OF PLASTIC HILLARY, JEB BUSH AND THE LIKE. HOW TO DEFEAT THESE PREDATORY MONIED POWER HUNGRY CREATURES, COULD BE AN EXCELLENT SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL. WAY MORE IMPORTANT THAN A WOMAN PRESIDENT, “THE SURVIVAL OF A NATION, THAT ONCE WAS FULL OF HOPE,& PROMISE”.
WHAT CONCERNS ME IS THAT OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, & CORPORATE AMERICA SEEMS TO WANT TO RIGHT OFF SOUTHERN CA, AND THE DESERT SOUTHWEST AS A WASTELAND. ACTUALLY THEY HAVE SO MANY DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES FOR THE SURVIVAL OF OUR ENVIRONMENT. THE FRACKING, WHICH IS DESTROYING OUR MUCH NEEDED GROUND WATER. NOW THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION REQUESTED 52,000 ROUNDS OF AMMO TO SUPPOSEDLY PROTECT HOOVER DAM. IT SEEMS AS THE WATER DISAPPEARS, THERE IS GOING TO BE PLENTY OF DEATH, AS PEOPLE ATTEMPT TO ACCESS WHAT LITTLE POTABLE WATER MAY BE LEFT. ON ANOTHER NOTE; HAVE YOU CHECKED OUT JASON LEOPOLD OF VICE NEWS?