Regarding Sanders, my good friend who ran for Congress posted the following. Don't miss reading this.
Trump may well destroy Sanders in the election this fall. What should scare all of us even more is the growing swell of Socialism. We, the human race, are simply not intelligent enough not to repeat the sins of our past. We will vote in Socialism. We will ruin this great country. Ignorance and greed being the reasons.
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Like watching a horror film as characters foolishly proceed toward life-threatening danger I got silently irate watching Bernie's town hall on CNN last night as people of every age, color, background who have clearly benefitted from the US cheered at the lunacy of his anti American idea. Except, in this instance, everyone in that room should know how that movie ends. Seemingly they do not, so like the fool in the film the proceed toward a precarious place.
This, not 24 hours after he lauded Fidel Castro for his "literacy program". It is not without irony, that JFK, the previously iconic face of the Dem party and Fidel Castro were bitter bitter, mortal enemies who wanted one another dead for the sake of their own political faith. The Dem party has come full circle.
As Chambers [Whitaker Chambers - "Witness'] said upon his defection from socialism to being a "man of the right"; "I have left the winning side for the losing side." I was filled with the same sense of inevitable dourness about the prospects for my children, grandchildren.
We may win this election but the left never stops and never will. Unlike the right, which is a loosely bound collection of individuals who are rarely moved to "organize" the left is bound by a "semi-military like discipline" that gives them a force many times their size. And in Sanders, they have found a galvanizing figure who, over an unimpressive 40-year career has perfected the ability to agitate class against class, color against color, man against woman. If it has any appeal during this time of great prosperity, imagine it's appeal during a crisis.
I surely know those who were quick to chastise Trump's tongue will now have their own tongues tied while otherwise good people vote for a man, or otherwise remain silent who represents everything that this country is not. To remain silent is cowardly, irresponsible. Your criticisms, humor of Trump have no doubt earned you the lazy admiration from those you seek not to disturb and gain favor but you do so at great cost, and I know down deep too many.
In the book, Chambers, who knew those good people who were wrongly absorbed into the appeal of socialism but were trapped by their own hubris and inability to part with it, he made this plea:
"There is much good in this man—so much good that I want to speak directly to him as I cannot otherwise do across the barrier of fear and conflict that divides us. Since there was much humor in our friendship, and it is the instinct of both of us to treat very serious things with a saving lightness, I would like to say the serious thing I have to say in the least serious way. I should like simply to quote (commandolike) from the least expected text—I mean that other pirate story, Treasure Island. I have in mind the moment when the small loyal party is abandoning the Hispaniola to fight its forlorn hope against the mutineers ashore. As the last boat is ready to push off from the ship, Captain Smollett calls out to the one decent man whom the pirates have somehow won over. “‘Now, men,’ said he, ‘do you hear me?’ There was no answer from the forecastle. ‘It’s to you, Abraham Gray—it’s to you I am speaking.’ Still no reply. ‘Gray,’ resumed Mr. Smollett a little louder, ‘I am leaving this ship. . . . I know you are a good man at bottom, and I dare say not one of the lot of you’s as bad as he makes out. . . . Come, my fine fellow, don’t hang so long in stays.’ . . . There was a sudden scuffle, a sound of blows and out burst Abraham Gray with a knife cut on the side of his cheek. . . . ‘I’m with you, sir,’ said he.” While it is possible to hold it, I will not give up the faith that Paul is the man I believe him to be and that one day the world will hear that scuffle and that sound of blows and see the slash of honor on his face."
