2016 Postmortem
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by Harold Jackson, Inquirer Opinion Columnist
“Things have got to change. But first, you’ve got to get mad! You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ ”— Howard Beale
Forgive me, but I can’t help comparing Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to Howard Beale, the fictional news anchor in the 1976 film “Network” who sparks a movement based on anger. Let me stress that my comparison ends there. Sanders isn’t really like the suicidal character so magnificently played by Peter Finch. But the “Feel the Bern” movement is similarly based on people getting angry with the status quo.
“The subtext of this campaign is called a political revolution,” Sanders said Wednesday in an endorsement meeting with the Inquirer Editorial Board. “It’s too late for establishment politics,” he said. “I think the bottom line is that American people are really tired of establishment politics and establishment economics.”
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/under-the-sun/Bernie-offers-little-beyond-making-us-mad-as-hell.html#8eCSuvxs83be5dsM.99
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notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Remember, she's the candidate of "NO WE CAN'T!"
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Bern the strawman.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)..deliineating all of the problems and offering absolutley no tangible processes to fix the problem, he leaves me with the feeling we may as well just all fall on our collective swords.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)The editorial writer is entitled to his opinion but quite frankly I thought it was very simplistic and relied too much on Hillary talking points. But I thank the person who posted it because it's good to see other peoples opinions even ones that I don't find very impressive.
Satch59
(1,353 posts)What he's selling...and he seems to be selling words, not real plans. Hope some details emerge in Thurs' debate: it's time Bernie to actually give some details beyond a screaming stump speech...
99Forever
(14,524 posts)
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Praising Republican villains for doing the exact things they did not do, claiming those who actually did sound the alarms did nothing until Dutch and Nancy bravely showed the way. She sounds like a Reagan Democrat to me. I'll take a big, giant pass at that revisionist lunacy.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)college, realignment of federal spending priorities from military boondoggles to public infrastructure, serious comprehensive reform of our financial system, tax reform to address the obscene inequality of wealth distribution, yeah nothing there at all.
Clinton, on the other hand is running on a promis of nope and no change.
OkSustainAg
(203 posts)will never be the same again.
revbones
(3,660 posts)How about when Hillary misspoke about Nancy Reagan's role with AIDS activism?
How about her blatant lie about being under sniper fire?
Maybe when publicly she told unions she'd fight the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, and had her released emails show she lobbied for it, secretly.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)So they do this instead...
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The Clinton campaign took the unusual step of setting up a noise-making device outside her venue so reporters outside couldn’t listen in.
Clinton was appearing at a private fundraiser for deep-pocketed Colorado Democrats, but just as she was about to speak, her staffers turned on some sort of white noise or a static noise-making machine that was pointed at the reporters standing across the street. The device was set up apparently to drown out what she was saying and preventing reporters from hearing any of her comments.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/revealed-heres-what-hillary-just-did-to-block-reporters-from-hearing-speech/
"The most transparent official in modern times." Yeah. Wonder what she tells the billionaires?
Nanjeanne
(5,002 posts)Make me mad.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 9, 2016, 01:17 PM - Edit history (1)
Dinners with superrich costing $353,000 a plate to buy favor and influence.
Get fucking angry!
Wake the fuck up!!
GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)Oh there it is, even his opponent knows his biggest reason for being pissed off... Do these newspapers think people are stupid...
Dem2
(8,168 posts)He may not end up being the messenger we want,
but he's most certainly enunciating the message we need.
In other words - he may be ahead of his time, or maybe he's too old, or too grumpy, but I've been complaining bitterly about what he's addressing for years now. I won't be a hypocrite and say that I don't agree with his message. I do have my doubts about his electability/ability to accomplish his goals if elected, but that's true more/less for any candidate that might run.
thesquanderer
(11,995 posts)...but you know, maybe real change doesn't happen unless people are mad as hell, too.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)in humanity. Odd.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)How very.....practical. We're not to be angry about the status quo, we should just accept it. We're not supposed to be angry about people dying in wars caused by the status quo because it's impractical to be angry at the perpetrators or collaborators. We shouldn't grieve over the dead because grief won't bring them back to life.
Emotions are bad, impractical, unrealistic, and prevent us from accomplishing great things...like killing people efficiently.
No thanks.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)anotherproletariat
(1,446 posts)His doctor says he has hypercholesterolemia, but I hope his blood pressure is okay.
