2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This country will absolutely NOT elect a self-described socialist. Sanders would be slaughtered. [View all]highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)Man, I'm so glad I don't have the sense of "reality" that I hear presented here over and over.
No more real than philosophies like "government is bad. we need to make government as small as possible" "no new taxes of any kind" or "it's a global economy, we have to outsource jobs overseas".
How many years of false philosophies from folks like Ronald Raygun and Grover Norquist do we have to suffer through before people believe in reality again?
To me, Bernie Sanders is doing an excellent job of piercing through the veil of all the bullshit we are fed all the time, including from our own Democratic Party in the guise of all the "new" Democrats. I mean, with Democrats like these, who needs Democrats?
He is piercing through the veil, and resonating with people who know what he is saying is true. And believe you me, they care a lot more about that than about some names that someone calls him.
So, go ahead and believe what you want to believe. I know enough about human nature to know you can't "force" someone to believe something else. And it's really kind of rude and not humble at all.
But take a look around. Why not support someone who really says and does the things you believe in? Why not back someone like Bernie, and let him take the ball all the way that he can, especially when he is generating such excitement in many quarters?
(You know, it's not as if Hillary Clinton, should she be nominated, comes into this with all positives that she is going to win and no baggage either. You'd have to agree with me there, wouldn't you?)
Anyway, I've been waiting for a politician who believes in high principles and stands up for them for a long time. I've long thought that would be a winning combination with the American people, in a nation whose founding fathers also had a long suit of high principles. In my life, I see that "high principles work", and that's where I'm putting my time, my energy, my faith, my money, my whatever I have. And I know the rests will be good, whatever the apparent outcome may be.
And I'm sure that he can win!!!!!!