New Day 1134 This Can’t Be Happening. But It IS!

New Day 1134 This Can’t Be Happening. But It IS!
Tuesday February 25, 2020
250 Days until the election on November 3rd
330 Days until the election on January 20, 2021

There’s a joke in the computing community about a programmer looking at their output saying, “This can’t be happening.”
The point being – that it is happening.

Bernie has won every Democratic primary and caucus so far and the pundits and the democratic establishment are saying, “This can’t be happening.” But it is.
Last night in a round table discussion of punditry, the old pundits trotted out the arguments as to why this wasn’t really happening and one of the young people at the table said, “The people who said that are the same people who said Biden was unstoppable.”
The day before the Nevada caucus the pundits were saying that the health care workers union members wanted to keep their health care plan and wouldn’t vote for Bernie who wants to replace it with Medicare For All. They voted for Bernie in overwhelming numbers.
When asked members said that yeah, they like their health care but what if they lose their job? What then? And what about their friends and family members not in the union, who don’t have access to the health care plan they have?
Biden says Bernie can beat Trump but he won’t help folks running in red states win Senate races.
Socialism being the bug-a-boo word.
Whoa – evil socialism.
The Republicans trot out the soviet style pictures of socialist republics and their ilk and try to imply that is what Bernie wants. Of course, if you’ve listen to Bernie at all in the last forty years you realize that is not what he is saying. But why let facts get in the way?
My friend dean who likes a guy who has a big red bushy beard and does videos in his woodshed about politics says that the problem with the Democratic establishment is that they have stopped listening to their constituents and instead are listening to pundits.
Now the pundits and the never Bernie folks are pushing the fact that he mentioned Castro put in a literacy program in Cuba and Bernie asked, “Is that so bad?” OMG! Heads exploding.
Bernie has also said that he’s a Democratic Socialist, which means he believes in taxes to be used to help people. Instead of a brand of Capitalism that says, “If you can make a buck by screwing over people that’s a good thing.”
He says< “Health care for all.” The pundits say it will cost trillions. What they don’t say is that the overall expense is cheaper than if you go the route we are going now. They say it will lose jobs. Yeah, all the lobbyists and paper shufflers will be out of a job. Cry me a river.

So what’s happening? Bernie has been advocating for a revolution for decades and now it’s here and the establishment is worried, and rightly so, because like Joe Biden they will be swept away.

Maybe, we need a more moderate candidate, like Pete or Amy? Hum, we tried that before, remember? How’d that work out?

Oh we can’t win in red states with Bernie you say. Really? Hum, I’ll bet if you go into those states and say, “Everyone gets health care and we’ll get rid of the tariffs and help you reclaim the markets that Trump took away. I’m guessing those farmers and those left behind aren’t going to care what you call it. Remember in Kentucky when the Russians came in and said they were putting a plant in there? No one was yelling, “Communists!” Especially not Moscow Mitch who has never done a thing to help those people in his state.

Yeah, it’s a leap. You’ll have to think. You’ll have to ask yourself, “Is it time?” Or do you want to say, “Ah Gee, I wish …” Stop wishing. The time for that is over. Start making it happen.

250 Days until the election on November 3rd
330 Days until the election on January 20, 2021

PS Coronavirus? Hey don’t worry we have a “Pandemic Team” in the government for just such events.
PPS Too bad president Trump fired them all last year.

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