Bryan, if you were in school in the 1980s- you don’t specify middle-school, high-school or college- although I doubt college based on your comment- then you’re not exactly knowledgeable about the decades before that time. Reagan was a horrible President to grow up under, then Bush, then a reprieve under Clinton, then back into the slum of W. Bush, then the revival of Obama and now the nightmare in the WH today then you came of age in a bubble of our history that wasn’t truly representative of good politics. And thinking that Bernie will magically bring us some sort of utopia is naïve (as are many of Bernie’s supporters) then you’re in for a rude awakening. A great many of those who attend Bernie’s rallies are there for the bands, the concert, the party atmosphere. They’re not likely to actually vote in November.
Which is good because Bernie is a cult of personality and you, as others, probably believe his claims yet know very little about his actual past- except that he says his “views” haven’t changed in 40 years. Bernie has never had a job outside of elected office and is now a one-percenter with a wife who committed bank fraud but wasn’t prosecuted because the Christian college she stole money from chose not to prosecute because it wouldn’t be the ‘Christian’ thing to do. So Bernie has no real world experience and has never had to find a job and compete against all of the others competing for the same jobs. No offense intended but I think you’re too inexperienced to possess the wisdom that comes with age- for most of use, at least. Bernie, I believe, failed to gain that wisdom about what is best for the nation in the long-run but hey, let’s all get together and have a party- that’s how we’ll change the world!
Except, the world doesn’t change that fast, it has to be changed in steady, incremental steps to reach a better future. And Bernie and followers think it can be done instantly while, in truth, it can’t. Your vote is YOUR vote, not mine to decide but my vote is MY vote and I vote for progress, not a ‘let’s tear it down and rebuild something better’ attitude because that would be an abject failure. And I, for one, prefer actual progress, not some pipe dream of a better, wonderful and bright future that we can all have now! That’s the height of arrogance for a generation of people who insist on instant gratification while ignoring change in the past never, ever came instantly. Good things need to be worked for and patience pays off for us all.
