Bernie supporters: Could you give me something to hope for? (A serious post.)

[DerekG]

I’m in a very bad place right now, and I just need to set a scene.

-For the first time in my adult life, the American people have finally been given a choice between a humane, nearly-incorruptible public servant and a corporatist who helped send some of my friends and relatives (and everyone else’s) to Iraq…and it’s looking like they’re opting for the latter one. They actually prefer Clinton.

-I just finished another chapter of Talbot’s The Devil’s Chessboard, wherein Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers sabotage the brief democracy of Guatemala and proceeded to terrorize the Arbenz family for decades. A quarter of a million people died in the next 40 years. (And I reckon no matter who wins the White House, there's plenty more coups and interventions in the horizon.)

-In my own personal life, I’ve used every legal means, every law enforcement agency, to stop the psychotic drug-dealers next door who have terrorized my family for years, and nothing works.



Everywhere I turn, I’m reminded that I live in a world where decent people are exploited and destroyed while the malcontents and outright sadists prosper. And it makes me despair.

What gives you hope? What gets you through the day? I desperately need something now. A historical analogy. An anecdote. A poem. Anything.