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Bernie Sanders

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Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 12:05 PM Aug 2015

Let me tell you how BEAUTIFUL Bernie's supporters are for a minute... [View all]

Yes, beautiful. Really beautiful to me.


Why? Because these are some dark and shitty times we're living in, brothers and sisters. It's easy, EASY to give up and forget that part inside you that burned for justice, for something higher. That's KID SHIT, when we grow up, we get with the PROGRAM, right?

But you know, I have 3 kids and you learn a lot from kids. Kids actually don't change much as they get older. Their personalities stay the same, but what's in there can change. They can give up, give in to the weights and pressures to the perceived reality, to they POWERLESSNESS in the face of it all.

OR

Some of them don't. Like my daughter who literally inspires me. She's magic I tell you. It's her strength. She stands like a rock until the things that LOOKED solid start to bend around the justice and reality SHE demands. She is bisexual and the strongest feminist I know and has taught me a lot. But mostly what she has taught me is that you don't give in. Maybe, just maybe she learned that from me. She says she did.

But you all, you don't give in either. You're grabbing that spark of hope, and you're making that reality bend around you too. Don't be fucking pragmatic. Reality is just what is forced on others by the strongest and most determined.

You ALL know what is right and you are going for it. However this works out, keep with it. Stay strong. That false reality will show itself for what it was. Just scenery, We are the makers of reality. Let's stay strong. Be strong together.

THAT'S why you're all so fucking beautiful.

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I love Bernie's DU supporters, too. merrily Aug 2015 #1
I think that's a funny thing, those fake Bernie supporters. It's fairly easy to see how it arose. Bonobo Aug 2015 #2
I don't think it's self-deception. I think they've known all along that they were not supporting merrily Aug 2015 #3
Many of them are deceivers. It's true. I like them the best cause they are comedy gold. Bonobo Aug 2015 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author merrily Aug 2015 #7
You're joking me, right? Well, cry me a river, JT! merrily Aug 2015 #8
"I changed because of the Bernie supporters!" <<< THIS senz Aug 2015 #10
I am so ashamed of being a Bernie supporter. He hs been against invading Iraq, against Gramm Leach merrily Aug 2015 #18
Fake Bernie supporters use their status as Bernie supporters to steer the conversation Enthusiast Aug 2015 #15
Some of them have admitted to "changing their minds." Some simply quietly dropped merrily Aug 2015 #17
Yay! SoapBox Aug 2015 #5
Almost as good as someone thinking you're fucking beautifully. merrily Aug 2015 #9
Bonobo, back at ya, honey. :D:D:D roguevalley Aug 2015 #6
Thanks, Bonobo senz Aug 2015 #11
What a great post. I just went through the OPs in this group because I miss so many sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #19
Yes, it really is amazing, sabrina. It is very much a sense of "I've been waiting for this" senz Sep 2015 #21
Back atcha, Bo sarge43 Aug 2015 #12
THIS. Hell yeah. ancianita Aug 2015 #13
Thanks for posting this! jomin41 Aug 2015 #14
We will hang together, Bonobo. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #16
I missed this when you first posted it Bonobo. I miss a lot of good OPs so went back a few pages sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #20
Thanks, Sabrina. Bonobo Sep 2015 #22
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