Voting Bloomberg, For The Love Of Money

I LOVE MIKE BLOOMBERG, but only for his money. His stated intention of purchasing the presidency for anyone who runs against Donald Trump is good enough for me. The system is corrupt. High office in America is purchased, whether with one's own money, or somebody else's. This, because advertising always works, even negative advertising, as has been evident since the nineteen twenties, when the public relations industry was born to protect and serve the corporate oligarchy against the fruits of its own failures, against the rising tide of socialism which resulted in socialist presidential candidates receiving more than one million votes in 1920, and a communist doing the same in 1932, the year when one of the democratic socialists actually won, and remained president for more than three terms. Mike Bloomberg, unlike Donald Trump, is a "self made man", insofar as that is possible among a species in which individuals are as dependent upon the aggregate species as butterflies, ants, and bumble bees. Bloomberg started poor, became excessively wealthy. Bloomberg forces me to achieve more empathy with Trump supporters, those mentally and morally deficient animals I so dearly despise. So what if the mayor called a few woman pigs and horse faced lesbians? He must have had a good reason! Maybe he was simply telling the truth! I, reduced to the amoral, utilitarian level of a Trumper. For less than ten billion Bloomberg can probably buy Trump's way out of office, and, in my dreams, into prison. The animosity between the two goes way back, and who can fathom the dark secrets which engendered their mutual hatred among the gleaming towers of Mid town Manhattan? So, maybe I'm not so different from the despicable Trumpers after all. Willing to compromise my integrity for a seat at the table, for a Bernie Sanders presidency. Bernie's three houses and two million dollar bank account do not bother me. Sanders needs to point out that there is nothing in socialist doctrine which says that a person cannot own property or money; only that there should be a limit to it, that taxes must be paid on it, and that it must be distributed with reasonable equality. Maybe socialists ought not be millionaires, but they ought not be penniless either. Bloomberg needs to point out that he made his billions the old fashioned way, he gives plenty of it away, unlike Trump, the he is not alone in trying to purchase political power, its the only game in town, and that he has the decency not to beg other people to do it for him. He, like trump, is a mere symptom of a corrupt political system in a corrupt culture. Sanders needs to point out that anyone who drives on public roads, receives social security, or believes in publicly owned and operated fire and police departments is, heaven help us all, a socialist. We must all live with our hypocrisy. I'll live with mine, you live with yours.