Self-fulfilling Prophecy
"Third Party candidates never win because no one ever votes for them, so why should I." Bernie spoke to this as has so many other valid candidates who never had the chance to get their voices heard. The last one to come out of the blue was Ross Perot and he was a rich businessman. It's a sad future for America if the only nonTweedle is a rich businessman. The last time a new major party came forth was after the collapse of the Whig Party in the 1850s. The Democrat and Whig Parties were the main rivals back then until a young Senator from Illinois challenged the status quo in a new party and became the first nonWhig, nonDemocrat president since John Adams. Today Bernie feels that the same grassroots uprising is not quite here and I'm sure Ralph Nader and Jill Stein would agree.
The US is to the right of center-right
This might be news to some, but the US is not even close to the center between left and right. Our belligerent, bellicose war policy does not come from Socialism. President Eisenhower warned of the Military Industrial Complex in 1960. We now have the Prison Industrial Complex; Too Big To Fail Banks; Revolving Door Congresses, aides and administrators who work as lobbyists or major company executives when not in office; Police Departments that are given war machines to deal with daily crime; and a Wall Street that cheats, then gets Congress to write laws to legalize their activities after the fact. It's politely called Corporatocracy. It should be called Neofascism.
There is almost nothing leftist about any of it. Our foreign policy supports tyrant dictators and military juntas and actively goes after any Socialist style government around the world with few exceptions.
American exceptionalism must cease
We oppose any policy introduced by any country that isn't centered in making the US richer. All our trade policies are heavily stacked against other countries. We throw up trade and economic embargos because we feel like it, not because of any sound or justified reason. The whole world has voted against the Cuban embargo for decades, yet we won't move. Iran does not have a nuclear arms program according to all intelligence agencies in the world, yet we pretend they do and force the rest of the world to follow our lead.
I firmly believe that Bernie Sanders can, and will, address these concerns above. In fact, he's probably the only one out there who would dare mention these unmentionables. It's high time someone started discussing the taboo subjects that progressives only whisper about and no one dares bring to the national stage. Americans live in a bubble and it's about time we burst it.
I back Bernie 100%. So should you.
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