From Donald J. Trump…Crazy Bernie

From BernieSanders…Trump is TERRIFIED

For a political junkie like me, this election is already fascinating, which makes me feel a little guilty because it isn’t a game for me to enjoy but a life and death struggle between the Democratic Establishment and the upstart Progressives for the soul of the Party. And, let’s face it, the future of the world as we know it. My issue, increasingly my only issue, is Climate Change. Real, big, Climate Change is coming towards us with all the realness and finality of World War II. How we react to that, the amount of urgency and energy we put into dealing with what is quickly becoming an emergency will make a difference to the future of our planet.

There are an astounding number of Democrats running. Somebody, I don’t remember who, said that the field could be broken into two groups, those who are running on the issues like Warren and Sanders, and those who are running on who they are like Booker and Harris. That rings true to me. I think that almost everybody has signed on to the Green New Deal but I don’t really know what that means, when I go to Kamala Harris’ website, it says TOUGH. PRINCIPLED. FEARLESS. and that is pretty much the depth of the information I’m going to get. After reading a very complimentary article in the Washington Post on South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, I went to his website and all it said is It’s time for a generation of American Leadership. That’s it. I have no idea where he stands on the political spectrum, which is too bad since he is the kind of young person I would like to see emerge as a contender.

I would think that anyone running for President would have spent some time reflecting on what issues they find important but, if’s that that’s the case, they don’t want to tell us. Maybe they know what they want but are afraid to say it out loud or, maybe, and this is my fear, they do not want to offend big donors. I’ve read that the two people Wall Street hates are Elisabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and they are the two whom we know the most about their policies. It seems to me that a lot of money is going to go to candidates who aren’t Warren or Sanders.

As an aside, I’m not sure how to, shorthand, refer to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Bernie seems right but Elizabeth doesn’t, Elizabeth does not seem to connote her seriousness as well as Warren, but Bernie and Warren seems not quite right either. End aside.

The divide in the Democratic Party worries me. I’m afraid my side, the Progressive side, will lose because the other side knows how to play the game. But, maybe, it is a new game. When Dianne Feinstein, not at her best, went viral and she couldn’t even understand how it happened and then, two days later, I see this picture of AOC, Ayanne Pressly, and Rashida Tlaib and I think; This is a new game.