NO one has a crystal ball. Look, he’s been, as I’ve already said, marginalized
by the media, all of the media, right, left (well, not far left), and in
between. But he has pledged to stick it out, and he’s not looking backward,
what’s done is done. Maybe, and I emphasize MAYBE, he thought Massachusetts, so
strongly democratic, its dalliances with Republicans notwithstanding, with its
academic and tech strongholds, would have better sense…so he got it wrong, so
sue him.
I’ve started, and I’m not alone, a campaign to tell one and all that if Bernie
is not nominated, every single person who believes in US, the people, must
write him in…he will thus win the popular vote, and what happens after that,
well, no one really can know that, it’s uncharted water.
It’s all still up for grabs.
But caving in to Clinton as the go-to girl is not, repeat NOT the answer.
On Mar 25, 2016, at 8:24 PM, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Alice, and what shall we do if Sanders isn’t nominated? I won’t even comment
on how letting our very own state slip through his fingers has effected his
chances.
Frank
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I can tell all of you who have never lived anywhere else but in the USA that
all the things the right and even a certain factions of the left want you to
believe about “elsewhere” is a load of crap.
Think Cuba…what fairy tales, to use Carl’s favorite term, although usually
applied otherwise, have we been fed?
Hillary’s snarky comment, “We ar enot Denmark.”
Anyone read the comments of the Finn who has lived both in Finland and here
in the US?
Or the similar article about Iceland?
These are not empty, “scholarly” articles, these are real life experiences,
observations of people who have seen both sides.
I liken this whole dichotomy to music…what else?
Most of the diction manuals used in music schools have been written by Madame
Plushbottom who has never set foot outside of East Buttfuck nowheresville
midwest.
My pedagogical and musical advice? If you want to know how to sing German,
listen to the great German singers singing German, their native language.
News flash, they’ve never heard of the dreaded schwa promoted by Madam
Plushbottom of East Armpit USA.
Do the European social democracies have their own set of problems? You bet
they do.
But much as Eastern Europe stood at a crossroads that offered a unique
historical opportunity to forge something new, so do we, the US…we can forge
a synthesis that takes the best of both worlds and perhaps creates something
new, hopefully some hing better than Communism, than capitalism, than
socialism, than any ism at all…
I must say, I’m astonished after a rather prolonged absence from this list to
read the dismissive, even denigrating remarks about Bernie Sanders,
particularly from those who have been relatively close to his sphere,
geographically at least, for a while now.
I swear, I think we Americans delight in finding fault, picking apart,
dismantling…
And, IMO, Bernie Sanders is not, repeat, NOT, the lesser of two evils, not
the lesser of anything...
