Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Electing Bernie Sanders

WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE very badly need to elect Bernie Sanders President of the U.S.A., because Bernie is a socialist, who favors the poor, and most of the American people are, alas, poor. It is very difficult to enact policies which benefit both the rich and the poor. Rich and poor people simply do not often have common interests, as they would have you believe. Usually, one or the other gets cheated. And unless you've been living on teh planet Mars throughout human history, you know exactly which group, rich or poor, has generally made and benefitted from public policy. Its particulalry bad in the United States. Our founding fathers established a system of control by the wealthy elite, but they naively assumed, or hoped, that the wealthy would do well by the poor. By 1792, five years after Madison's republican constitution went into effect, Madsion himself, its primary author, regretted it, because he could see that America's wealthy weren't going to do a damned thing for the poor, in any spirit of national unity and pride, other than exploit them. In 1787 America's wealthy elite were large land owning men, people such as Washington, Jefferson, Madison. Today, its the large corpoations who have all the money, and all the power. In the United States its worse today than ever, in terms of exploitation of the poor. Barack Hussein Obama is, at the end of the dog goned day, about as good a corporate spokesperon as most of those crazy republicans. Obama, bought and paid for by his wealthy corporate employers. Bernie Sanders aint like that. He don't take no money from large corporations, allegedly. He supports minimum wage increases, real, socialized, national health care, progressive taxation, and much greater economic equality. All of those things favor the poor. The republicans, the party of the rich, are dead set opposed to all of them, naturally. Hillary Clinton, like her husband, is, alas, a corporate spokesperson. Not Bernie Sanders. Economic inequality wouldn't be such a horrible thing, if it weren't exactly the same thing as political inequality. In a democracy, a poor person should have as much political power as a rich person. In America now, candidates purchase their political offices; thus, our plutocratic government. Bernie Sanders would change that, with help from tens of millions of us poor folk.

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