Bernie Sanders wrote a very erudite piece
for the Washington Post about what he and his followers want for America. You
would think that they're the only ones who care. I guess if you buy the story
that Hillary Clinton is a Nazi-loving, corrupt oligarch slash Wall Street whore
it must seem as if her supporters love Nazis, oligarchs and whores and
positively salivate over the idea of the 1% getting richer.
It's a lovely, dramatic picture, one that
gives anybody with unprocessed frustration and anger plenty to vent on. And naturally
Sanders' opening paragraph talks about political revolution.
Boy, does Sanders love that word
'revolution'. And he has extraordinary skill in making it look as if he's the
only politician in America with these aims. What about Barack Obama's almost
eight years worth of contributions, that brought the country back from
recession faster than any of the other countries affected by that recession?
What about how hard and tirelessly he worked and still works towards building
up the middle class and correcting the inequality?
For that matter, what about the work that
Hillary Clinton has done in her political career? It's the easiest thing in the
world to pick out the failures or mis-steps, grossly magnify them, and
conveniently ignore when they've been corrected and when her steps achieved
positive things for the country.
It's harder to go looking for truth. It's
not so much fun, definitely; how can you vent on inconvenient truth?
And how, I wonder, does Bernie Sanders plan
to turn any of his grand vision into reality when he openly refuses to endorse
Hillary Clinton, unequivocally sending the message to his supporters not to
vote for her? The more successful he is in that, the more likely it is that
Donald Trump will be president and Congress will be in control of Republicans.
That means the Supreme Court will be, too. It's pure logic. Unless Sanders has
something else up his sleeve. Maybe he's hoping Hillary Clinton will be
arrested.
I have a Facebook friend who was
convinced about ten days ago that she was going to be arrested the next day, on
the authority of an opinion blog. This is the same person who posted this meme:
The truth, which took me a few seconds
to find via snopes.com, is that the photo is not of the girl, and that in 1975
Hillary Clinton was a young lawyer and had to take the case.
She did so reluctantly; successfully
challenged the mismanaged evidence and the case didn't go to trial. Clinton
didn't claim that the complainant fantasized about being raped by older men and
she allegedly 'laughed' about the unreliable nature of polygraphs.
So Hillary Clinton is not an advocate for
rapists. She is, however, and has always been, an advocate for women and
children.
Even if she is arrested for something that
Jeb Bush also did while Governor but isn't even being questioned on, why should
Sanders be given her place when he didn't get the majority vote? And Clinton
she isn't arrested? It's quite a gamble Sanders is taking. And he sure isn't
being upfront about it. One minute he's standing next to Barack Obama, smiling
and looking friendly and saying he will work with Hillary Clinton. Then the
next thing he's giving a speech to his followers without mentioning her name.
He had a window of opportunity there and he
chose to shut it. The fire of rage that he has fed and the misinformation about Hillary Clinton that he's
helped to grow like a cancer were already both getting dangerously close to
being out of control.
And Bernie is still talking about
revolution. I think back to an interview when he gushed about Castro and said
sure, there are problems but... Problems like mass murders, lock-down on the
press, a society reduced to its lowest common denominator with that denominator
in constant plummet. I wonder if his followers realize that that's what he's
looking for; the revolution that destroys everything.
So he can be the hero who rebuilds? Talk
about unprocessed frustration and anger. If he carries on down this road,
refusing to help his followers get their head around Hillary Clinton, Trump could
become president, and everybody, not
just Sanders and his followers, can kiss
everything that's good about America goodbye and say hello to a Congress even
more dominated by Republicans, a conservative Supreme Court that will roll back
all the social progress on equality, American going back into economic
disaster, and a world of more recession and ghastly wars.
It's your choice, Bernie Sanders.
