Sanders, not a real Democrat, should drop out
Bernie Sanders is the candidate now sitting atop the list of the dwindling pack of men and women seeking the Democratic nomination for president.
He should drop out. He is not a Democrat.
He is a Socialist. Sanders calls himself a Democratic Socialistic, or a Socialistic Democrat, it’s hard to remember which. How does one label something that does not exist?
There are Democrats and there are Socialists. You are one or the other and the last thing we need is a socialistic form of government. We are not ready to abandon our democracy, our republic and our capitalism.
The nation of our founding fathers is already floundering with a president who is lawless in a land famously governed by laws and who lacks any identifiable set of values.
Electing Sanders will not fix that. He doesn’t give a darn about America. He just wants to head some large piece of land and its population so he can impose his twisted political theories on all of us.
Sanders is reputed to be a red diaper baby who has been espousing socialism for a long time — with no toleration from anything outside of his infamous and offthe-point socialistic rants.
By the same reasoning a vote for Elizabeth Warren is just as dangerous. She has an expensive plan for everything and no affinity to play nice with others in search of more reasonable means.
Neither Warren nor Sanders are the sort of people you would want to have over for a cocktail or a cup of tea. Can you imagine an afternoon of their preaching?
So that leaves us with Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, the two sensible people who did very well in the New Hampshire primary.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is a great guy but over the hill. It is too early to predict a winner, but my heart seems to run with Klobuchar, who exhibits critical thinking with important issues.
All those mentioned are smarter than President Trump.
The talk show pundits daily and endlessly discuss a zillion possibilities, but seem to forget the elephant in the room, Mike Bloomberg, the former New York mayor who is just now re-entering public discourse.
He seems to be a man with a finely honed brain and an ability to dodge the land mines of our flawed political system. He also has compassion, but tends to hide it behind a fixation on the issues.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the politicians talked less about the issues and more about the people issues affect — those of us who are sick, poor, caught in a culture of addiction, struggle to live good family lives and, most of all, those who are alone because of the demise of churches, schools and other character-building community groups?
Yes, it would.