Fifties were a better time. We need to return to a better Democratic Party.

[Sparkly]

269. "We need to get back the Party of Bernie."

We've never had a "Party of Bernie," and yet we've always imagined a "Party of Bernie." Who hasn't? It's called UTOPIA! We just blow up "the system" and get back to working off the land. Nobody owns anything, we all own everything, commerce is fair, labor is rewarded! This works because everybody understands the truth, tells the truth, and wants to do the right thing.

If not -- if human nature has any part in it -- there has to be a way to protect the people by and large. That would involve enforcement by some group of people -- let's elect them. They will then ensure nobody gets deluded, by prohibiting the publication of misinformation. If the system isn't working for someone and they try to sell a loaf of bread outside the overseeing enforcement's rules, they must be punished or the whole thing falls apart.

And then, if that overseeing enforcement -- which is to say, the government -- shows its own self-centered human nature at the expense of the majority, there must be a higher authority to ensure that doesn't happen... And now we have a totalitarian government. A dictator.

Now, I am as socialist as anyone, at heart -- but I know that it's an ideal that doesn't take into account human nature in a tribal sense let alone in this mosaic of a country. We aren't even a "melting pot," because we can't "melt."

Democracy is the best we can do. There is no "Democratic Socialism" unless or until there is overwhelming popular support for an overthrow of capitalism not just here, but worldwide at this point. Sorry! Democracy is the best we can do.

And sorry! A president who understands that -- and who has the cajones to fight for what's right, despite being hit on all sides for 30 years -- has my vote over the opposition, and the idealism that people imagine is "left" of her (purer, more caring, more bold, more heartfelt) is a TOOL of the RIGHTWING.

THEY are the people manipulating our democratic republic via capitalism. THEY are the people who have attacked both Bill and Hillary Clinton with every bit of nonsense they could come up with. Multi-millions of dollars and decades later, they got an affair (how shocking is that!? Ask all the people involved in the inquisition!!) and possible use of the wrong kind of email server that allowed rightwing Judicial Watch to get ALL of Hillary Clinton's emails to spill out into the public domain -- and STILL no scandal.

If you think SHE is the "establishment," take your pious self-congratulations to the Republicans. You're already on their team.