A good rule of thumb is that a joke is more effective when it contains some truth, but not too much truth, because then it stops being funny.
Bernie Sanders can be forgiven, because he's not a professional comedian.
NOTE: Most of you don't need to hear this. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I need to say it and this is my only forum. I beg your indulgence.
We've been having this discussion recently here at c99. Here's Jimmy Dore and Lauren Steiner The video is 20 minutes. Sorry there's no text.
Wink wrote a pro-Bernie essay that I mostly agree with.
Chris Hedges wrote an anti-Bernie essay that I mostly agree with.
Just like Donald Trump is important, but still mostly a symbol of a larger problem, we shouldn't get hung up on Bernie Sanders.
I'm willing to feel good about Bernie Sanders. Here's one of his press releases from April 2016:
https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-stop-separation-immigran...
Politico's latest click-bait headline sure promised more than it could deliver.
Just how evil is Bernie Sanders?
Can anyone who wants universal health care and free college be anything other than "the lawless one who uses all power, signs, lying wonders, and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved?"
The answer appears to be "yes".
The left has never been welcome in the Republican party; and since the neoliberal Clinton machine showed up, they have not been welcome in the Democratic party either. As Clinton debauched the historical, FDR/JFK/LBJ meaning of the word "liberal", the left started calling itself "progressives".
My how the world has changed.
It just changes more slowly than we'd like.
Consider these recent headlines:
