Tuesday, May 31, 2016

One Week Until #BernieSanders Day in California #Bernie2016 #FeelTheBern

What state knows #FeelTheBern better than California or has traditionally been one of the strongest proponents of free thinking and freedom in general, two of the things Bernie Sanders represents before anything else.

Bernie Sanders has no mantra, no status quo, and no need for defensiveness since his record hasn't changed in over thirty years.  He has never supported killing anyone nor has he endorsed selling weapons to others so they can do it on his behalf.  His record is immaculate throughout his entire career and, amazingly enough, the only one with even a hint of an ability to say the same thing is Donald Trump.

While Trump has any number of questionable business deals and practices on his record, he doesn't have the fishy flip-flop record of Hillary Clinton, the artificial smugness of the normal run of nouveau riche GOP, nor does he have any record of payoffs from Super PAC dollars.  We do not endorse him in any way and wouldn't vote for him to build a pup tent, much less a Great Wall of Mexico, but, relative to all but Sanders, Blondie Boy is the Virgin Mary.


There is authentic High Drama for the poll of the Democrats in California and it has the perennial refrain of 'the Fate of the Free World depends on it' with the always popular refrain, 'Now More than Ever.'  Despite the Kate Smith lyrics, the truth of the situation remains.

We need a whole lot of California Millennials to get extremely damn serious about whether you want to spend your futures paying off yet more aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines when America already has so many or will you take the future for all of America and not just the privileged few who profit from military expansion.

We have seen military expansion increasing at feverish rates ever since Ronald Reagan with scarcely a critic in any quarter whereas social programs have been vilified in every possible way short of blaming them for Ebola and close calls with passing asteroids.

The Navy's testing of a rail gun is a classic example of the Military Emperor's New Clothes since it's fantastically-expensive and probably serves little more purpose than sixteen-inch barrels in an actual WWII-style bombardment.  For anything else, more than likely the Air Force will bomb the target because they can get there faster and drop bigger bombs.


At question more than anything else is reason since America has been doing a great many things out of no more than force of habit.  You're the Millennials so will you take old bad habits or work toward new and better ones with Bernie Sanders.

Next Tuesday in California.  Make it happen.

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