I guess I have just become very cynical after going through the high of that monumental acceptance speech by Obama overlooking thousands declaring WE are the hope and change he was talking about. And it didn't hurt that he was replacing one of the most destructive bafoons that Americans have ever had to suffer through.
Then the blow after blow during his first year. And I'm not talking about the GOP's onslaught. I was expecting that. It was his transparent opportunism. His bull-headedness, not in pushing through Democratic principled legislation, not in grabbing the bull-horn and using his amazing gift of speaking, ...it was that he seemed almost hellbent on proving everyone wrong, that he would be a successful President, which meant passing legislation. He would prove to all the naysayers and actually be productive....which to him meant showing his cards and even capitulating before things were even begun. It became clearer and clearer as the years went by that he was NOT the second coming of MLK, he was just a simple opportunist politician that said what he had to say in order to corner Hillary as a part of the conservative Washington establishment in order to snag the nomination.
So I think we owe it to ourselves, if no one else, to be very very cautious before we go completely ga ga over a candidate for saying what we want to hear. I realize Bernie has a history to fall back on. And so that is also why I would tend to trust his sincerity. But what happens when he actually gets the power and authority and is inundated with top secret information from top "advisers" from the military, intelligence, and the financial industries, and also perhaps pressure to act in their wishes or......? Not necessarily a personal threat, but a political one, and who knows?..maybe I'm a pessimist but I think the world's .1% have orchestrated the world's economies and diplomatic situations in their favour for so long that they may persuade Bernie, as they perhaps did Obama, that he would be fighting a losing cause. So his choice is to become one of them, make friends with those high up in the food chain, set your family up for generations with favours cashed.....or become another "Carter". One and done and be ridiculed long after as a weak inefectual dreamer. Now this may all still happen and he would say, hopefully, that he doesn't care, and that he will push through his progressive agenda regardless because he knows it is best in the long term for the people. But do we really really know for 100%?
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