WHY I’M FOR BERNIE SANDERS<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen fear becomes collective, when anger becomes collective, it\u2019s extremely dangerous. It is overwhelming\u2026 The mass media and the military-industrial complex create a prison for us, so we continue to think, see, and act in the same way\u2026 We need the courage to express ourselves even when the majority is going in the opposite direction\u2026 because a change of direction can happen only when there is a collective awakening\u2026 Therefore, it is very important to say, \u2018I am here!\u2019 to those who share the same kind of insight.\u201d \u2013 Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist Monk, \u201cThe Art of Power.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been in deep despair these last few months about our political landscape. This quote from Thich Nhat Hanh recently elevated my spirit, and I share it with you. Because I am\u2014we are\u2014still here! Though it\u2019s clear that the die is cast and that Clinton will win — that is, if you believe in numbers and materialism, but I don\u2019t, not completely.<\/p>\n
I enclose here several recent articles, which you need to read to understand how difficult a situation we\u2019ll be in if we continue with a harder-line version of Obama. Hillary Clinton has effectively closed the door on peace, blasting both the Palestinian peace process and the Russians in the same week. NATO is her god, the best thing the \u2018exceptional\u2019 US has to export in this new \u201cAmerican Century.\u201d<\/p>\n
But who set this policy and who controls this country? Her point of view is steeped in the traditional post-World War II, Atlanticist, NATO-domination of the universe. It\u2019s set in stone. No president it seems, no democratic vote, no dissenting media can alter this. We\u2019re going to be in border, resource, and forever wars for the next 10, 20, 100 years, until Trump (who our Shadow Government will never allow to exercise power) actually said in his straight way of talking, \u201cour cities go bust.\u201d Our media has been drained and made callous by war, increasingly sensationalized by TV, looking for the next high in the next headline, the more outrageous the better. Modesty in American politics is dead\u2014it\u2019s better to be sensational. Ironically, as they call Trump unelectable (which he is), it leaves you to think Clinton is the \u2018new normal\u2019, in which case you\u2019ve been deceived by the unnecessary dichotomy that Clinton is actually \u2018respectable\u2019 in the same way that Eisenhower\/Dulles 1950s were respectable when we went about intervening and overthrowing governments in many countries. But the difference was they at least had the brains not to get into shooting wars. To suggest NATO should\u2019ve expired in 1991 when the Soviet Union disintegrated, I suppose isn\u2019t questionable anymore. NATO, which has expanded to 13 countries since 1991, must be supported and Clinton has been brainwashed by the neoconservatives to believe it\u2019s about \u201cRussian aggression\u201d when it\u2019s the United States that\u2019s ensuring the greatest build-up on the European borders of Russia since Hitler did it in World War II.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re going to war\u2014either hybrid in nature to break the Russian state back to its 1990s subordination, or a hot war (which will destroy our country). Our citizens should know this, but they don\u2019t because our media is dumbed down in its \u2018Pravda\u2019\u2013like support for our \u2018respectable\u2019, highly aggressive Government. We are being led, as C. Wright Mills said in the 1950s, by a Government full of \u201ccrackpot realists: in the name of realism they\u2019ve constructed a paranoid reality all their own.\u201d Our media has credited Hillary Clinton with wonderful foreign policy experience, unlike Trump, without really noting the results of her power-mongering. She\u2019s comparable to Bill Clinton\u2019s choice of Cold War crackpot Madeleine Albright as one of the worst Secretary of States we\u2019ve had since\u2026Condi Rice? Albright boasted, \u201cIf we have to use force it is because we are America; we are the indispensible nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.\u201d Hillary\u2019s record includes supporting the barbaric \u2018contras\u2019 against the Nicaraguan people in the 1980s, supporting the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia, supporting the ongoing Bush-Iraq War, the ongoing Afghan mess, and as Secretary of State the destruction of the secular state of Libya, the military coup in Honduras, and the present attempt at \u201cregime change\u201d in Syria. Every one of these situations has resulted in more extremism, more chaos in the world, and more danger to our country. Next will be the borders of Russia, China, and Iran. Look at the viciousness of her recent AIPAC speech (don\u2019t say you haven\u2019t been warned). Can we really bear to watch as Clinton \u201ctakes our alliance [with Israel] to the next level\u201d? Where is our sense of proportion? Cannot the media, at the least, call her out on this extremism? The problem, I think, is this political miasma of \u201ccorrectness\u201d that dominates American thinking (i.e. Trump is extreme, therefore Hillary is not).<\/p>\n
This is why I\u2019m praying still for Bernie Sanders because he\u2019s the only one willing, at least in the name of fiscal sanity, to cut back on our foreign interventions, bring the troops home, and with these trillions of dollars no longer wasted on malice, try to protect the \u2018homeland\u2019 by actually rebuilding it and putting money into its people, schools, and infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Albert Camus, talking about the doomed Spanish Civil War in the 1930s wrote, \u201cMen of my generation have had Spain in our hearts. It was there that they learned \u2026 that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, and that there are times when courage is not rewarded.\u201d It\u2019s true the light was extinguished for generations in Spain. America was sleeping, but it finally did the right thing and went to war against Fascism. I believe Fascism is still our greatest enemy and its face is everywhere in our so-called \u2018democracies.\u2019 It was always about the moneyed interests that had the power. That is what Fascism is and that is the danger we are in now. Sanders talks about money, listen to him. He talks cogently about money and its power to distort. He\u2019s the only one who has raised his voice against the corruption in our politics. Clinton has embraced this corruption.<\/p>\n
WHY I’M FOR BERNIE SANDERS \u201cWhen fear becomes collective, when anger becomes collective, it\u2019s extremely dangerous. It is overwhelming\u2026 The mass media and the military-industrial complex create a prison for us, so we continue to think, see, and act in the same way\u2026 We need the courage to express ourselves even when the majority is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104,102],"tags":[1020,992,1246],"class_list":["post-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-clinton","tag-oliver-stone","tag-sanders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12920517_1147268138630817_636786229098970338_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SfUR-1II","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6618,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions\/6618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}