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"I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
-- Robert Kennedy
Pooka Fey
(3,496 posts)Let's get this derailed train back on the tracks and rolling forward again.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)McGovern. (except 4 years with Carter) In the meantime we got a new name...Progressive. Maybe I'll call myself a Liberal Progressive...kind of like a Social Democrat.
kentuck
(111,085 posts)...the Real Deal !
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Had to find a Kleenex...High School Geometry Class...Principal came in and told us about President Kennedy.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)It seems there's a blight on our imaginations these days. Everyone tempers their expectations of change with some pragmatic equation that factors the resistance of entrenched powers; "It doesn't work that way", "They'll never let you", "Live in the real world"... But we've seen the miraculous happen and the greatest walls fall when people are united and their leaders have the will. Bernie gives me hope because he believes in possible.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)contributing to the system THEY set up for us.
Not this time. Bernie IS going to win, and anyone who thinks it isn't possible, doesn't want it to be and is best ignored.
'When the wolves are at your heels, just keep climbing'
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Ya
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)It is so clear, the political establishment does not want Bernie heard from. They know what the people want to hear.
The American people are hungering for Bernie. They just don't know who he is yet.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)President Andrew Shepherd: Look, if the people want to listen to-...
Lewis Rothschild: They don't have a choice! Bob Rumson is the only one doing the talking! People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.
President Andrew Shepherd: Lewis, we've had presidents who were beloved, who couldn't find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight. People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference.
We've got one Party drinking sand, and another that doesn't know the difference.
Bernie Sanders represents real leadership. We'll see if he can beat out the mirage.
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)Bernie is really about hope and change. For him it's more than a campaign slogan.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)Made my day.
Thanks William
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And the full quote is.
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
But RFK made it his, and I think Shaw would have liked that.
Pooka Fey
(3,496 posts)Thanks for the credit to the great George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)ananda
(28,858 posts)It was Ted Kennedy who made that quote at Bobby's funeral. Here is my take on the source.
Shaw's Serpent says to Eve in Back to Methuselah, death is not an unhappy thing because it can be conquered through birth. That birth is shown when the serpent sheds its skin to be renewed. The Serpent then remonstrates with Eve over the way she is always asking Adam,
-- "Why?" He says: Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" I made the word dead to describe my own skin that I cast when I am renewed. I call that renewal being born. --
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)But for the greed of a few hundred people it could be done. Greed and corruption have always been features of our nation. But the greedy and the corrupt have set new records.
Additionally, the TPP is another mega act of greed. It's like housing bubble. They are setting us up.