Not again! Oh, yes, again.
At this point in my life seeing another Presidential election cycle heat up with yet another horse-race cast to the reporting of it, is almost sickening.
Yet that is what we have from The New York Times, as they present the large crowds in Iowa for Sen. Sanders as a contest between his "campaign operation" and hers. The policy differences are mentioned, but not in detail, only as differences of direction on the political spectrum. This is the old "left, centrist, right" terminology. (Didn't this right-left business come from French revolutionary days?)
Not only does America deserve better, it must have better. There is too much at stake.
One cautionary word which does have resonance is whether Mr. Sanders can actually be elected. Think about it for a moment with me: Can he? I do not see a Bernie Sanders winning the Presidency without a wholesale revolution in the Democratic Party machinery and/or a major national emergency of an economic kind. So those two things are possible. Are they likely? The second of these is a distinct possibility. And if the economic emergency were great enough -- millions of people standing in bread lines, the party machinery would eventually be affected. But how fast?
So, as a country we have our work cut out for us. Be wise, America. O, be wise.
At this point in my life seeing another Presidential election cycle heat up with yet another horse-race cast to the reporting of it, is almost sickening.
Yet that is what we have from The New York Times, as they present the large crowds in Iowa for Sen. Sanders as a contest between his "campaign operation" and hers. The policy differences are mentioned, but not in detail, only as differences of direction on the political spectrum. This is the old "left, centrist, right" terminology. (Didn't this right-left business come from French revolutionary days?)
Not only does America deserve better, it must have better. There is too much at stake.
One cautionary word which does have resonance is whether Mr. Sanders can actually be elected. Think about it for a moment with me: Can he? I do not see a Bernie Sanders winning the Presidency without a wholesale revolution in the Democratic Party machinery and/or a major national emergency of an economic kind. So those two things are possible. Are they likely? The second of these is a distinct possibility. And if the economic emergency were great enough -- millions of people standing in bread lines, the party machinery would eventually be affected. But how fast?
So, as a country we have our work cut out for us. Be wise, America. O, be wise.
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