Perspective on Senator Sanders [View all]

[Oixi1993]

I want to share a perspective I have on Bernie Sanders. I am a consultant to small businesses that are struggling. I tell them the truth even when they do not want to hear it. I am passionate about helping them. I find myself losing patience and nearly get overwhelmed with frustration at their ability to stay in denial about the dire consequences of not making changes. Many times I do not take their money to prove I am motivated to help them yet they still do not listen. With this in mind, I have no earthly idea how Sanders keeps his cool. I have no idea how he does not just go off on the media or others who refuse to face reality. He just calmly talks about the problems and the logical obvious solutions and explains to people who do not want to get it how things could be if they would just be willing to change. I experience this on a very small scale compared to him and he does his thing with such grace that I am humbled by his example.

I am further humbled by the fact that I bought the bull shit of Fox News and the mindless right wing for 30 plus years. So in my case I am grateful that he calmly explains the facts of where we are in a way that made me willing to change. I honestly wish I was half the man that Bernie Sanders is. This is a man we need as our leader and I wish I could do more to make this a reality.

But still, how in the hell does he do it? Do you have any idea how he has kept his sanity standing alone all these years knowing he is trying to do what is right and Americans chose to stick their head in the sand? What is your theory of how he has maintained his composure in the face of so much willful ignorance?