my comment (bernie as robin hood) to the NYTimes (to a comment posted) [View all]
If you think Bernie is Robin Hood -- stealing from the rich, to give to the poor -- then why do you think many other countries have (relatively) free health-care and college education -- but not the United States?
People claiming that Bernie is too simplistic -- don't seem to explain the details of why the United States is behind so many countries in caring for their people.
Their main refrain: the Republicans won't let us take care of our poor, weak, vulnerable, and young people, who want health-care and education without having to declare bankruptcy.
Why have Democrats swallowed the "it can't be done" philosophy?
I think, mainly because the Clintons said that Obama was a dreamer when he beat them for the presidency in 2008 -- and now the Clintons try to convince people that putting the Clintons back in the White House will be Obama's third-term.
The Clintons did many good things for American democracy, but they've become political chameleons who will say anything to please any group -- not to mention their decades of never-ending cover-up dramas, from sex, to money, to wars.
Good luck trashing Bernie's America of economic and cultural equality! You'll need it if the Clintons regain the White House.
"Mankind born free, yet everywhere in chains."
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
