1 thought on “Bernie Tells The Truth About Last Night”
Bernie is a true mensch. He is a courageous, honest, hardworking hero. His vigorous exhortations to the American people to stand up and fight the oligarchy are sincere. Bernie’s reading of the tyrannical monsters running his country right now is bang on, but it seems to this outsider that what is happening is the only possible culmination of American history. Is it healthy? Hell no. Is it the logical upshot of two hundred and fifty years of believing America to be the best country in the world, the freest society, the leader of human development, a superior race? I would say yes—and that’s a problem.
Like Bernie, I think action is urgently required. Failure to act is what got the MAGA goons elected. But it would be unwise for American activists to settle for the nostrum that America, as designed, is better than this and just needs a sprucing up to put the grown-ups back in charge.
In the ’70’s, a wiser person than I said: “Under the surface of America sleeps a dark, malevolent giant. One day that giant will wake up and there will be hell to pay.” Quite so. The current disaster was inevitable. Sure, the bleeding must be stopped and the fever reduced. But the underlying disease is an enduring reality.
The American experiment has run its course and the result is not good. The giant is astir, evil is afoot and I don’t think many of us in the non-American world have any realistic hope of America coming through this storm intact. On the contrary, what we really fear is that America will take us all down with her, for it would be arrogant of us to imagine we are immune to the same disease.
It’s the rare sinking ship that rights herself. It is becoming clearer every day that Trump and the Project 2024 thugs, in their perverse efforts to drag the world back to pre-Reformation barbarism, don’t give a tinker’s toss for humanity. The heroic rallying cry to the masses to fight back is looking more futile each day. Sorry Bernie, even if all decent people love you and respect you—and we do—it doesn’t look good from here, amid repeated advice to keep rearranging the Titanic’s deck chairs.
I think I hear the strains of that string quartet playing “For those in peril on the sea”.
Bernie is a true mensch. He is a courageous, honest, hardworking hero. His vigorous exhortations to the American people to stand up and fight the oligarchy are sincere. Bernie’s reading of the tyrannical monsters running his country right now is bang on, but it seems to this outsider that what is happening is the only possible culmination of American history. Is it healthy? Hell no. Is it the logical upshot of two hundred and fifty years of believing America to be the best country in the world, the freest society, the leader of human development, a superior race? I would say yes—and that’s a problem.
Like Bernie, I think action is urgently required. Failure to act is what got the MAGA goons elected. But it would be unwise for American activists to settle for the nostrum that America, as designed, is better than this and just needs a sprucing up to put the grown-ups back in charge.
In the ’70’s, a wiser person than I said: “Under the surface of America sleeps a dark, malevolent giant. One day that giant will wake up and there will be hell to pay.” Quite so. The current disaster was inevitable. Sure, the bleeding must be stopped and the fever reduced. But the underlying disease is an enduring reality.
The American experiment has run its course and the result is not good. The giant is astir, evil is afoot and I don’t think many of us in the non-American world have any realistic hope of America coming through this storm intact. On the contrary, what we really fear is that America will take us all down with her, for it would be arrogant of us to imagine we are immune to the same disease.
It’s the rare sinking ship that rights herself. It is becoming clearer every day that Trump and the Project 2024 thugs, in their perverse efforts to drag the world back to pre-Reformation barbarism, don’t give a tinker’s toss for humanity. The heroic rallying cry to the masses to fight back is looking more futile each day. Sorry Bernie, even if all decent people love you and respect you—and we do—it doesn’t look good from here, amid repeated advice to keep rearranging the Titanic’s deck chairs.
I think I hear the strains of that string quartet playing “For those in peril on the sea”.
Meanwhile Canada, ELBOWS UP!