Every movement fails. Until it succeeds.

I have friends on both sides of the Bernie-Hillary divide. And tonight on Facebook, they’re all posting articles that give the edge to their favored candidates, articles that anticipate alternative—and conflicting—futures. And that is as it should be. Politics is not a science of representing reality exactly as it is (that is, uni-dimensionally). It is an art that sees reality in all its flux, a mode of judgment that identifies multiple paths and possibilities, a mode of action that presses harder on some of those possibilities
—pushes further along some of those paths—than others. Not because they’re more probable but because they’re more desirable. Which is why I have so little patience with the armchair strategists in the media, those political meteorologists who spend their days forecasting the future, who tell you there’s no point in voting for a candidate because there’s no way he or she can win, as if the end is a fact of nature rather than a choice of citizens. Or their counterparts in the electorate, those anxious realists who demand that you lay out the path for them, assure them of the destination, before they even take a step. Oh, to know the end of the day ‘ere the day is done! The fact is: Every movement fails. Until it succeeds. And then, when it does, everyone says, of course it succeeded, it had to succeed. No, actually, it didn’t have to succeed. But what made it succeed—or at least helped it succeed—was that men and women, for a time, shook off the need for certitude, let go of the bannisters of certainty, remembered that they are not scientists, and put themselves into motion. Without knowing where they’d end up.

Meskwkaki people: Sanders 83% Clinton 17%.

At the Indian Settlement precinct, Iowa.

Marking. n/t

Why I’m going to Iowa.

I don’t know where I’ll be sleeping tomorrow night. I don’t know who I’ll be with. Hell, I’m not sure what town I’ll be in, but I know I’m going to Iowa. A guy I’ve never met is stopping in my town tomorrow morning and picking up me and a woman and we’re going to Iowa to canvass for Bernie, or whatever else they tell us to do.

To engage in such a cockamamie scheme, I must be the sort who believes in unicorns. At least that is what I’m told by more than one supporter of another candidate. You may have heard of her. She used to be inevitable.

Anyway, unicorns are real. Because right now unicorns are defined as health care for everybody, a living wage and free tuition to public colleges. I know the public college and living wage unicorns are real because I am old enough to remember them right here in the USA. When I went to college, Pell grants would cover your tuition and books. And it used to be that one person working for minimum wage could support a family. That was back when Eisenhower and Kennedy used to tax the rich and herd unicorns.

But what about universal health care? That is a unicorn that currently exists everywhere in the industrialized world except the USA. That is why I’m going to Iowa, to persuade that unicorn that it can live in the USA, just like it lives everywhere else in the world.

I’m also going in order to give the finger to billionaires like Trump and the Kochs and that professional liar and amateur scum sucker David Brock. But mainly it’s about love for my kids, my wife, me, my friends, humanity and this continent called Turtle Island where my family has dwelt for seven generations. So it’s mainly about love and, of course, the unicorns. So my dodgy knee, my herniated belly (no health care!) and my backpack are all making the trip.

I think the message for this weekend is that if we turn away from the corporate controlled media, the racism, Wall Street greed and ignorance and turn toward love and knowledge and we stand together, we can do anything. Even persuade unicorns to come back to America. That’s why I’m going to Iowa.

It is hard to keep up with her lies!

Thanks for posting this, so I can explain more of the HRC bullshit, to those who believe her.

Is there a visible petition out there

to have Debbie Wasserman Schultz removed from the DNC Chair position? If not, there should be. Certainly in the running for worst DNC chair of all time.

Phonebanking starts in one hour!

We are are hitting Iowa as hard as possible this weekend. It's not too late to give one or two hours for Bernie this weekend. You will be glad you did it, I guarantee it.

Message me and I will get you connected.

Easy way to help Bernie: phonebanking Iowa this weekend!

If you are able to help this weekend: 10am through 8pm on Saturday and 1pm through 8pm on Sunday, we are making a push to call people in Iowa to boost our numbers at the Iowa caucuses. It's easy, fun and rewarding. You need a phone that can call long distance and access to the Internet. Message me and I can hook you up. You will be glad you did!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Whether is it is a day of fasting and meditation or family celebration, I hope the day is worthwhile for all.

What are the differences between Dick Cheney and Hillary on foreign policy?

I can think of one: the treaty with Iran. Are there others?