Too Bad Bernie

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Art Nouveau / A.Y. Jackson/ Winter Morning, Charlevoix County

Personal life needs no report to describe dullness.  Don't see any reason to get crazy and change this though. 

Last night I tried to figure out Opera.  Coming to the conclusion that the older, the better.  And maybe the acting ought to get better.  I think that I will forego any further research into this matter.

Screed:

So, looks like Biden is in the dumpster.  Fifth place shows suckage.  Biden has always been a sleazy little shithead.  It's just too bad he didn't get seventh.   Bernie got a win.  But the sleazy little consultant that the big boys are grooming for their spokesmodel showed a strong second, and the ghosts of Hillary past showed third and fourth. 

I am torn with Bernie, I will vote for him if he is the nominee.  If he isn't the nominee I will probably hold my nose and vote for fuckwad. 

But even should Bernie get the nomination (25% chance, tops) he will force the party to re-evaluate and things will harden off and probably cause a split in the party.  The corporate Democrats who currently have the keys won't give in, there is too much money and too many perquisites flowing into the party and their personal hands to give up.  The first rule of politics is that you never, ever give up your power and money.  Bernie represents the move to have people do just that.

AOC is a pretty smart kid.  She said out loud what everyone knows in their heart of hearts.  There is no left wing in American politics.  There is only the right and the center right.  But with that admission, she reinforces my opinion that the right will do anything to prevent any movement of the American spectrum to the left.  So the Democratic party apparatus will do what it needs to do to prevent Bernie's getting the nomination. 

Any of other contenders to the Democratic mantle will do what the money and the power tell them to do (Sorry Gabi, but you ain't a contender).  Just like Trump.  If Bernie wins, I think that he will try to shift things to the left.  If this happens, there will be a fragmentation and possibly a civil war.  It won't be Bernie's fault.  I think that he will try to do the right thing regardless.  But the owners, the 1% and the 19% that are their henchmen will move heaven and earth to continue the maldistribution of wealth and power that allows for the presentation of their status and the continuation of their greed.

Bernie represents class war.  The right wing deplorables and the left wing deplorables are starting to figure it out.  The elite want to keep their thumb on the masses, right where they are.  This is not a situation that can continue, all we have to decide is when the treatment will begin.