re: #114 Targetpractice

Bernie is every bit the career politician that he tries to BS people into believing he despises. Everything he does is for his own benefit, whether it’s voting against bills when knows there’s enough votes to pass such, voting for defense appropriations that send money back home, or portraying himself as a “dove” when he’s voted again and again to authorize military force. But his supporters buy into this shit for the same reason MAGAts have convinced themselves that a man with multiple bankruptcies to his name is a “successful billionaire businessman”: He says what they want to hear and hates on the people they hate.

It reminds me so much of Ron Paul 12 years ago too to be honest. I saw that campaign unfold in early Facebook presidential media because I was a member of a Facebook group following the election. I’ll always remember the Paul fans because they were so devoted to the cult of Ron Paul. No one was more principled than Ron Paul. And Ron Paul predicted all of this. Replace Ron Paul with Bernie and you see a lot of the same stuff. It’s one of the things that sometimes frustrates me about parts of our generation is that some of us want a hero President rather than a president who is a human being.