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March 18, 2016
Bernie and Goliath
By James and Jean Anton
Bernie has done amazingly well, considering the extent of the opposition to him. He is completely alone. He might do better by calling out Obama the hypocrite, as he does Hillary, but he can't. It would be political suicide.
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We have been doing all we can to support Bernie even though it seems at this point to be a lost cause. The problem is that it's Bernie against everybody... not only the Republicans, but also the Democrats (the old Jewish Socialist has yet to get a single Senator to endorse him), or a single major news outlet - the New York Times actively opposes him as does the Boston Herald, the Washington Post, and NPR (fake left-leaning rags designed to fool the "intelligentsia" into thinking that there is a viable, left-leaning voice). Is Elizabeth Warren also a fake left-leaner? Is Chuck Shumer one too? What about Bill DeBlasio? Al Franken? Jesse Jackson ? Are they all fake progressives? Not one of them endorsed Bernie. Not one of them. Not even Martin O'Malley.
Recently I created a petition with MoveOn that asked Warren to endorse Bernie. In two days it had 200 signatures when MoveOn blocked it... They said they could not support it, but they would not say why except to say we support "very few petitions." It was depressing, because on their website they encourage members to start petitions. They themselves took a vote and endorsed Bernie! What could they have against a petition to Warren asking her to also endorse him? I emailed them again saying I deserved some sort of explanation. They are ignoring me... imagine being disenfranchised by MoveOn!
Gays love Hillary... why???? Blacks love Hillary... why???
Hillary loves and admires Obama ... why???
Obama is the president who sold us out on the most important issues of substance like Medicare for All which he backed off from when he had a landslide victory and the Dems controlled both houses of congress and the executive branch" instead he gave us his great legacy of compromise: Obamacare that does too little for too few.
Obama is the president who, after receiving the Nobel Peace prize, appointed a Dubya holdover, CIA chief Robert Gates, to be Secretary of Defense, who continued Dubya's endless war in the Middle East...just days after receiving the Peace Prize.
Obama is the president who appointed Sommers, Geitner, Emmanuel, and Holder as well as other Wall Street shills to top administrative positions...
Obama is the president who recently led the Republicans for the TPP...
Obama is the president who has enabled the militarization of our police, homeland security and enables universal surveillance...
Obama is the president who will not grant amnesty to Assange or Snowden or Manning or other heroic whistleblowers ...
Obama is the president who continues to support the privatization of our schools and prisons, indefinite detention without trial, and solitary confinement"
Obama is the president who is actively involved in disastrous regime change...
Obama is the president who supports more than 100 military bases all over the world"
Obama is the president who routinely makes use of assassinations (even of American citizens)"
Obama is the president who has yet to close Guantanamo, a campaign promise he made almost 8 years ago"
Obama is the president now asking for $539 billion of our tax money to support the military budget...
Hillary hopes follow in his footsteps -- as the first woman president -- assuming that Trump - the great white hope - does not win the general election, which he may in fact win. Why? He will win EVERY debate with her.
What will she say when he gets vulgar about herself and her husband, fucking-Bill Clinton.
What will she say when he brags that he paid $300,000 to the Clinton Foundation and yes as a result, they answer his phone calls?
What will she say when he points out that unlike herself, he hasn't taken a dime from Goldman Sacks or Bank of America?
What will she say when he tells the debate audience about how she fawned over him at his fourth wedding?
What will she say when he points out how bad her judgment was in Iran, and Libya?
What will she say when he points out that as Secretary of State she wanted to bomb Iran and Syria?
What will she say when he points out that he has been and continues to be against the TPP and NAFTA?
And he yes, he's a bully. He's no gentleman. He'll constantly bring up the emails and Benghazi.
If Hillary becomes the first woman president the pundits will cheer. Yah for America, ignoring the fact that many foreign countries have women presidents.
They will cheer because she will do so much for women like...
" she will make sure that women get the same low wage as men at wonderful places to work like Walmart or some supermarket chain owned by a foreign corporation.
" she would enable women to head corporations that send their profits to the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes, just like men do.
" she will make sure that women consider medical care a privilege not only for men but also for women, but not a right.
" she will make it possible for women to work as hard as men for the same starvation wages that are paid to men.
" she will not undo NAFTA.
" she will give women an equal opportunity to get a crummy part-time job at starvation wages and no benefits.
" she will make sure that Medicare Is Not-For-All-females as well as Not-For-All-males.
They will cheer because Hillary will sanctify oligarchy. Oligarch will be perceived as a constitutional right. A privilege (like her campaign of inevitability) that comes with wealth. God bless some Americans, to hell with all the others.
Bernie has done amazingly well, considering the extent of the opposition to him. He is completely alone. He might do better by calling out Obama the hypocrite, as he does Hillary, but he can't. It would be political suicide.
So yes, all is lost. We are doomed. Oligarchy which will end only when the system implodes then explodes... like a celestial giant black hole, and there will be no magical phoenix that emerges from it... only some kind of totalitarianism, and when that falls... there will be blood on the street, civil war, "rape, murder is just a shot away" as the great Rolling Stones song goes.
In the end, climate change will be all that matters anyway to us ordinary mortals and peasants. There will be dry land, and plenty of food and water to go around for Hillary and the one percent.
If Hillary wins, Bill O'Reilly will not be forced to move to Canada.
P.S.
According to Wikipedia "The underlying purpose of the story of Goliath is to show that Saul is not fit to be king (and that David is). Saul was chosen to lead the Israelites against their enemies, but when faced with Goliath he refuses to do so; Goliath is a giant, and Saul is a very tall man."
In Florence, Italy the statue of David "represented for over four centuries the strength and dignity of the Florentine Republic (Galleria dell'Accademia)."
James and Jean Anton were born and raised in New York City, and spent ten years living and working abroad in countries as diverse as Brazil, Ecuador, Denmark, Italy and Iran. They have written and illustrated books for Scholastic Inc, McGraw Hill, Macmillan, and Sterling Publishers. They have authored and illustrated a weekly column called Dr. Crystal's Cosmic Kid Stuff for the Pennywhistle Press section of the Gannett News Service. In addition, they worked as editorial cartoonists, having received Best Editorial Cartoon awards from the New York Press Association (the Phoenix and Villager Newspapers in New York City). They are also playwrights. One of their plays, Freaks, was finalist in the Actors' Theater in Louiville's National Playwriting contest.