3rd February 2020, 11:48 AM
Biden is Hillary, Hillary is John Kerry, John Kerry is Al Gore.
What do they all have in common? They were boring. What do I mean by "boring"? I don't mean they weren't jumping over cliffs in their Harleys. I mean they didn't speak to the average person's needs. The only thing they wanted to do was be a bulwark against the excesses of the republicans. Yes, that's important, but it's not exciting. The "Safe candidate" isn't safe ABF. Never has been. Obama ran as a progressive, that's why he won.
We need a flat out revolution in this country. That's all there is to it. The two parties are both corrupt, and both have convinced themselves their corruption is a necessary evil because "that's how the world works". It's time to change how the world works. It's happened before. It can happen again. No, let me rephrase that. It MUST happen again, or we are doomed.
Biden will NOT stop the coming environmental catastophe. He's not interested in that. He doesn't care. Sanders MIGHT stop it, because he's backed by an excited support network of people who want a revolution.
Take the risk ABF, or you will die. Or we all will.
And now this! The DNC wants to change the rules to allow Bloomberg into the race. That's literally the only reason they could have to put their finger on the scale this late in the race and remove the requirement for a certain number of individual donars. They also want to undo the one positive change they implemented when they had to eat crow back in 2016, they want to give superdelegates MORE power now. They're afraid. Some people speaking on their behalf have flat out said they're terrified of Sanders or Warren winning. Good. They're corrupt. They call our request they not take money from billionaires to fund their campaigns a "purity test", well hear this. Yes, yes it is, and when two candidates PASS that purity test, it proves it's not unreasonable. Frankly, it's embaressing that they are effectively mad at us for wanting our candidates to be good people. That's what they mean when they say "purity test", they can only be mad because they don't pass it.
I'm sick of the whole system myself ABF. This may just be our very last chance to ever have real influence on the election ever again. If they tighten those rules, the establishment dems will have sealed up the democratic party against the public ever having a true representative again. They'll call their requirements "accepting political realities", but in reality they will have promised that the tree of liberty will need to be nurtured with blood. The republicans are already lost, if the democrats go that way, there will be literally no difference between voting democrat or republican, and hey ABF, you've constantly said anyone that votes for a 3rd party is morally in the wrong for doing so because they "have no chance" and spoil elections, so where does that leave us? Revolution.
Vote for Bernie, avoid revolution. It's comical isn't it? I mean seriously, listen to what I'm saying, it's pretty extreme. But- in looking at the rather disturbing results of poll after poll, especially the ones that focus on Generation X who have largely been the most disaffected of citizens, the U.S. is a powder keg right now.
If the democratic party changes the rules to prevent Sanders from winning, that's the match. Not because they worship Sanders but because the notion that our democracy is real will be stripped away. It may not have actually been true for 50 years now anyway, but if you pull back the veil, you're dealing with angry angry people. Just listen to what Trump supporters have threatened to do if Trump is removed from office. Now, don't get me wrong, Trump SHOULD be removed from office, and he lied to all his supporters and broke every one of his promises to help them, but they are coming from the same place as the progressive supporters on the left. The whole country is hurting right now. The election is the one last peaceful place to express that hurt. If people stop believing the election actually reflects them, what do you think they will do?
What do you think is going to happen if Biden gets picked and then he goes on to lose against Trump? We are not so far from France right now.
What do they all have in common? They were boring. What do I mean by "boring"? I don't mean they weren't jumping over cliffs in their Harleys. I mean they didn't speak to the average person's needs. The only thing they wanted to do was be a bulwark against the excesses of the republicans. Yes, that's important, but it's not exciting. The "Safe candidate" isn't safe ABF. Never has been. Obama ran as a progressive, that's why he won.
We need a flat out revolution in this country. That's all there is to it. The two parties are both corrupt, and both have convinced themselves their corruption is a necessary evil because "that's how the world works". It's time to change how the world works. It's happened before. It can happen again. No, let me rephrase that. It MUST happen again, or we are doomed.
Biden will NOT stop the coming environmental catastophe. He's not interested in that. He doesn't care. Sanders MIGHT stop it, because he's backed by an excited support network of people who want a revolution.
Take the risk ABF, or you will die. Or we all will.
And now this! The DNC wants to change the rules to allow Bloomberg into the race. That's literally the only reason they could have to put their finger on the scale this late in the race and remove the requirement for a certain number of individual donars. They also want to undo the one positive change they implemented when they had to eat crow back in 2016, they want to give superdelegates MORE power now. They're afraid. Some people speaking on their behalf have flat out said they're terrified of Sanders or Warren winning. Good. They're corrupt. They call our request they not take money from billionaires to fund their campaigns a "purity test", well hear this. Yes, yes it is, and when two candidates PASS that purity test, it proves it's not unreasonable. Frankly, it's embaressing that they are effectively mad at us for wanting our candidates to be good people. That's what they mean when they say "purity test", they can only be mad because they don't pass it.
I'm sick of the whole system myself ABF. This may just be our very last chance to ever have real influence on the election ever again. If they tighten those rules, the establishment dems will have sealed up the democratic party against the public ever having a true representative again. They'll call their requirements "accepting political realities", but in reality they will have promised that the tree of liberty will need to be nurtured with blood. The republicans are already lost, if the democrats go that way, there will be literally no difference between voting democrat or republican, and hey ABF, you've constantly said anyone that votes for a 3rd party is morally in the wrong for doing so because they "have no chance" and spoil elections, so where does that leave us? Revolution.
Vote for Bernie, avoid revolution. It's comical isn't it? I mean seriously, listen to what I'm saying, it's pretty extreme. But- in looking at the rather disturbing results of poll after poll, especially the ones that focus on Generation X who have largely been the most disaffected of citizens, the U.S. is a powder keg right now.
If the democratic party changes the rules to prevent Sanders from winning, that's the match. Not because they worship Sanders but because the notion that our democracy is real will be stripped away. It may not have actually been true for 50 years now anyway, but if you pull back the veil, you're dealing with angry angry people. Just listen to what Trump supporters have threatened to do if Trump is removed from office. Now, don't get me wrong, Trump SHOULD be removed from office, and he lied to all his supporters and broke every one of his promises to help them, but they are coming from the same place as the progressive supporters on the left. The whole country is hurting right now. The election is the one last peaceful place to express that hurt. If people stop believing the election actually reflects them, what do you think they will do?
What do you think is going to happen if Biden gets picked and then he goes on to lose against Trump? We are not so far from France right now.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)