Tag: Bernie Sanders

Bernie’s School of Hard Knocks

Bernie Sanders Rally San Jose CA

I hadn’t planned on supporting Bernie’s second run, but somehow I got sucked into it anyway.  And, it turned out to be just as soul-crushing and depressing as I expected it would be before I allowed my heart (and pollsters) to rule my common sense.   

It began sensibly enough.  I was just going to dabble, I told myself. I resisted getting on any lists or donating any money to his campaign. I stayed cool.

But as the race heated up, I got hooked. And anyway — the polls looked so good.  How could he lose?  Read More

There’s Something Very Unifying About A Global Crisis

Cruise Ship

There’s something very unifying about a global crisis — a great inescapable event that affects us all at the same time.  Such crises seem rare but in modern times, they happen often.  We have world economic crises, a global climate crisis, and a crisis of faith in our leaders that’s led to widespread social uprisings around the world.  These sorts of crises affect everyone to some extent, but the effects are hard to gauge.  Some people are affected disproportionately, others not at all.

But in the case of coronavirus, it’s different.  Coronavirus is affecting everyone — rich and poor, young and old, all races and creeds — at the same time.  And while some of us say to ourselves, “It’s just the flu” or “I’m young, it won’t kill me,” our lives are still being majorly impacted by it.  For starters, there are social restrictions and they’re getting tighter by the hour.  Moreover, the world economy is shutting down, which means that along with toilet paper, money is going to be in short supply..

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Dump The Dems

Obama and Clinton with Yoda

On Monday afternoon, on the eve of Super Tuesday, I voted for a Democrat for what will likely be the last time.  I was never a very strong Democrat, always to the left of party policy.  But in the past, I still believed that the Dems were at least marginally on the side of regular people.  I no longer believe that.  Today’s Democrats seem to be more interested in appealing to a better off clientele — people who really love their health insurance plans! and resent those who need help getting to sufficiency.

It wouldn’t be so bad if they had just sold out their values and left it at that.  They didn’t.  Instead, they went after their own frontrunner, Bernie Sanders, like he was Public Enemy #1.

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