Thought For The Night

Bye, Bye Bernie

April 8, 2020

Bernie and Birdie, circa 2016

Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign yesterday.  Bernie moved the national conversation – over two presidential campaign cycles – to a much better place, if you are an actual person.  He affected Hillary Clinton’s messaging during the 2016 primary, causing her to at least talk a more liberal/less corporate game, though only meaning it to a modest degree. 

Another, initially comical, perpetually disingenuous candidate also made a point of echoing much of Sanders’ platform, meaning absolutely none of it.  That of course was Donald Chrump, who played the populist card to a credulous audience, who for some reason took seriously a repeatedly financially bankrupt, and life-long morally bankrupt third-rate TV personality who was running for president as a publicity stunt, with not the slightest idea what the job entailed.

At the time, some (small) number of Bernie’s supporters apparently felt so poorly disposed toward Hillary that they voted for Chrump.  Immediately after Sanders suspended his campaign yesterday, Chrump cynically suggested that Bernie’s supporters come over to Chrump.  As a lifelong liberal kind of person, who always looks at all sides of an issue, I considered Chrump’s proposition in the spirit in which it was offered.  My response is best presented pictorially:

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Bernie Sanders, like so many Americans, understands the importance of ridding this nation – and the world – of the deadly infection, the one-man pandemic of greed, ignorance and hatred that is called Donald Chrump.  I am sure Bernie will do everything he can to help Joe Biden defeat President Death and continue to push an agenda of liberty, justice and healthcare for all.  With any luck Chrump will magically disappear at noon on January 20, 2021. But, as with the end of the current coronavirus pandemic, when it comes (probably not by Easter), the after-effects will linger for an unknown duration and to an unknown degree.

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