2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: In light of recent events... I felt this was an appropriate thing to post... [View all]retrowire
(10,345 posts)Greed always finds a way to corrupt. And there is an ebb and flow to everything. I think we've been in the deeper rut for a while now, and it's now time to rise.
As I continuously say, Hillary, and other establishmentarian politicians will only pick the low hanging fruit. "Look! 12.50 an hour, that will appease you." "Hey, I went after the spooky shadow banks on wall St, but I left my buddies alone. See? I'm helping!"
Picking the low hanging fruit is what we've been doing. And it's not enough. Electing Bernie is the only way to shake the whole damn tree. We'll get all the fruit, even the difficult ones. And we will prevail because we worked hard enough and believed we could.
I don't think any of us should listen when the Third Way tells us, "Oh, that fruit is too high. We can't pick that." No. We are the people, this is our government and nation, and YES WE CAN do whatever we choose. It IS possible. Bernie has proven time and time again that his goals have been achieved by others, and it is not a pipe dream.
Thank you again for your words. I will keep fighting. But I, like many others, don't know how I'll feel if Bernie doesn't make it. I was disenchanted with the political machine before... I can't imagine how I'd feel if that happened.
But I won't be allowing a Republican in the white house.