My tweet, which has pretty much gone viral with at least 3 retweets! Try not to be too jealous of my fame, thanks:

When's the last time a politician said, with conviction, "World Peace! No More War!" #BirdieSanders https://t.co/5MSemO99M6

— Nightprowlkitty (@Nightprowlkitty) March 26, 2016

My first posted tweet, so apologies in advance if I did it wrong.

I'm sure most people reading here at the Caucus have heard about the now top trending hashtag #BirdieSanders. Here's the video showing a little bird landing on stage and then flying up to Bernie's podium:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fth4Ww7V5cA]

When Bernie sees the bird, his attention is immediate, recognizing a fellow sentient being, as it were. When the bird flies up to the podium it almost looks like Bernie is having a conversation with the bird, at one point actually shrugging his shoulders at it.

Then after a beat he goes into this amazing riff:

I think there may be some symbolism here (giant applause). I know it doesn't look like it but that bird is really a dove asking us for world peace! No more wars!

Is this also being too unrealistic? Are we here in America allowed to appreciate a symbolic aspiration for world peace? Can we even be allowed to think about world peace?

What we are told by our conditioned and crumbling society is that we should fear everything and give up all our rights and liberties in order to be safe. That's just the way the world is, we are told.

Look at the faces in the audience as they turn their heads up to watch that bird fly. Listen to the roar of acceptance at hearing someone in power actually say "World Peace! No more wars!"

These are the people who are at present locked out of our political process. We've seen all the obstacles, from big money to giant media monsters to PACs run by people like Spinny McSpinnerson, all the jive, all that jive. Jivealicious, I'd say. Every bit of that jive is designed to keep us from even aspiring to peace in any realistic way. Not even to think about it.

A lot of symbolism in this big Bernie gig in Portland, OR. Good Friday, rebirth, all that. There's more than a few metaphors to be had as well, not to mention the simile of #BirdieSanders on top of my trend list, immediately followed by #TrumpLovesPecker. Har. (I did just find that #TrumpLovesPecker has gone down a notch while #BirdieSanders is still at the top).

When Bernie says "think big," that frightens the powers that be. It's silly to be frightened of thinking big, but for too long so many in this country have been conditioned to believe thinking big is actually a bad thing.

Enough is enough. It's time. What more do we need, Gabriel and his Trumpet??

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXk1LBvIqU]