I just read that Bernie Sanders is not only exploring a plan to run in the 2016 presidential primaries (fine with me; hope he doesn't expect to win) but might run for president as an independent. I hope this is BS. Does anybody remember the outstanding results of genius self-promoter Ralph Nader's heroic run for president?
This is just impetus that we need to enable President Little Paulie Ryan, or President Ranger Rick Perry, or (God help us all) President Science Denier Marco Rubio to send the US (and likely the world) into a deep depression, potentially with the aid of two Publican houses of Congress. Who knows which of several potential Adventure Wars (TM) that the next publican War President would choose to initiate?
I'm far from thrilled with Barrack Obama (who is, after all, at bottom a Harvard Lawyer), but can we stop pretending that there is no difference between these guys and Obama, or Hillary Clinton or whoever else wins the Democratic primary? Remember what Bismark (an SOB but a very capable SOB) said: politics is the art of the possible, and it is important to not neglect what is possible now in the pursuit of what cannot be attained immediately. Do you really want to hand the Publicans, on the the eve of their collapse into demographic irrelevance, one more opportunity to squeeze whatever they can out of the country, and the opportunity to wreak havoc through many decades through judicial appointments? Want to fight another twenty year Adventure War or two, with the artificially animated head of Dick Cheney screaming that we can never leave wherever it is we've sent troops?
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Condemned to repeat it
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