The Deal with Bernie Sanders

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I just read the most amazing article about what one journalist thinks is going on with Bernie Sanders.

This piece by Matt Taibbi was linked to by someone on my Fb page, and I think it articulates almost all of the thoughts that I have been trying to verbalize over the last year or so.  While most political journalists and bloggers are carrying on about how "un-electable" Bernie Sanders is, Mr. Taibbi writes that Bernie Sanders is so focused on his somewhat unpopular message simply because he's one of the few politicians who believes the system is not broken.

The other liberal candidates, e.g. Hillary Clinton, appear to be more moderate and electable simply because (Matt Taibbi says) they're cynics, and they're bought up by Big Business, and at the end of the day, they will play the game of the interests that have bought up the political process lock stock and barrel, whereas Bernie Sanders is completely uninterested in playing any sort of game.

To understand the complexity of Matt Taibbi's argument, and to appreciate the evidence he puts forward in support of it, you just have to read the post in its entirety.

When I first read it, what caught my eye is the fact that the political scene has to be viewed in the context of how Citizens United remains standing, despite the considerable force that liberals within Government and without have brought to bear on it.  Others may pay lip service to wanting to bring it down, but Bernie Sanders is almost the only one who goes about every day as if Citizens United must fall, and life must go on after it does.  Most of us (Taibbi writes) can't bear to think about "the little old lady who is on the point of freezing to death," at least not for very long, because some utility has decided to shut off her heating.  But Bernie thinks of nothing but these things, which have no business to happen in an enlightened country such as we wish ours is.

That's Bernie Sanders explained.  I sure wish it is true.

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