re: #68 BigPapa

I saw a passage in a Reddit thread (LOL I know) where the poster noted that the left always has a romantic relatinship with some anti-establishmentarian, as if it’s in our ID. Going backwards before Bernie, to Stein, Nader, and those teasing the tips of the horshoe with Ron Paul, Perot, going back to Goldwater. Somehow this trait is more prominent on the left. It was an interesting read, I wish I bookmarked it.

I was pretty young when Nader was a thing but I remember Ron Paul’s rise very well. That’s who Bernie is to me. He’s a backbencher who never was interested in joining one of the major parties in a serious way, he’s an ineffective legislator, he’s an old fart who sells his ideas as revolutionary when they’re really just the old fights of hte industrial age. The problem isn’t that Bernie’s a socialist. The problem is Bernie is a socialist stuck in time. And he’s a dipshit when it comes to a key constituency of the party whose nomination he wants.