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Third Period Americanism '20 (Why Not Bernie, Indeed, Actually Not Bernie)
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rubard...@gmail.com
Jan 26, 2020, 7:08:27 PM1/26/20
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Fellow Americans (non officeholders),
A Jeffrey Rubard of "Points Distant" writes to you today concerning the 2020 Presidential race and a matter of concern to all Americans: the impossibility of electing Bernard Sanders, representing Vermont, to the Presidency. It can't happen and people's time shouldn't be wasted on it: the left's time shouldn't be wasted, and the left shouldn't waste other people's time with it.
Sanders, Bernard is too old and infirm to serve in the office: we would never have wanted to elect a 78-year-old to a possible 8-year term and we *don't* want someone with his demonstrated health problems in the office. The fact that his stated views will never appeal "electorally" to most Americans (who think primarily of "how their bread is buttered" and secondarily of their religion) doesn't even come into it, which is worrisome considering that should be the *primary* reason.
Sanders should immediately drop out of the Democratic primary race, which he was always dubiously qualified to be in anyhow ("kibitzers" may not know the Democratic party is not really a "drop-in" thing: it's easy enough to claim you are a member with "non-standard" views, such as I do, so standing "above the fray" is really a sign of *bad* housekeeping rather than a quality guide). If we cannot be even *handed* an outsider as candidate according to eminent common sense, maybe dubiously motivated enthusiasts for doing so could stop *trying* to do it. (Those are the kind of things people tell me to "wise up" about, anyhow.)
All other candidates, including Trump, are viable. Personal views do not even really come into it -- it's just a bad idea -- but I was as a socialist enthused to see him do at all well in 2016 and I am enraged by this ridiculous spectacle today. I, personally, would tell you that you could have it if you could: you can't. It isn't even about that but about a massive waste of the public's time at all points.
Jeffrey Rubard
A Jeffrey Rubard of "Points Distant" writes to you today concerning the 2020 Presidential race and a matter of concern to all Americans: the impossibility of electing Bernard Sanders, representing Vermont, to the Presidency. It can't happen and people's time shouldn't be wasted on it: the left's time shouldn't be wasted, and the left shouldn't waste other people's time with it.
Sanders, Bernard is too old and infirm to serve in the office: we would never have wanted to elect a 78-year-old to a possible 8-year term and we *don't* want someone with his demonstrated health problems in the office. The fact that his stated views will never appeal "electorally" to most Americans (who think primarily of "how their bread is buttered" and secondarily of their religion) doesn't even come into it, which is worrisome considering that should be the *primary* reason.
Sanders should immediately drop out of the Democratic primary race, which he was always dubiously qualified to be in anyhow ("kibitzers" may not know the Democratic party is not really a "drop-in" thing: it's easy enough to claim you are a member with "non-standard" views, such as I do, so standing "above the fray" is really a sign of *bad* housekeeping rather than a quality guide). If we cannot be even *handed* an outsider as candidate according to eminent common sense, maybe dubiously motivated enthusiasts for doing so could stop *trying* to do it. (Those are the kind of things people tell me to "wise up" about, anyhow.)
All other candidates, including Trump, are viable. Personal views do not even really come into it -- it's just a bad idea -- but I was as a socialist enthused to see him do at all well in 2016 and I am enraged by this ridiculous spectacle today. I, personally, would tell you that you could have it if you could: you can't. It isn't even about that but about a massive waste of the public's time at all points.
Jeffrey Rubard
Jeffrey Rubard
Jan 21, 2022, 5:21:56 PM1/21/22
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which meant I couldn't vote. (A relative contrived to be specially "expert" in how I could and should vote, but...)
Jeffrey Rubard
Jan 22, 2022, 9:57:04 AM1/22/22
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(As you know there's still "something that can be done" about this negative fact, though.)
Jeffrey Rubard
Jan 22, 2022, 9:44:49 PM1/22/22
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(Like it'd be a man, anyhow.)
Jeffrey Rubard
Jan 23, 2022, 10:22:25 PM1/23/22
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Jeffrey Rubard
Jan 24, 2022, 9:58:08 AM1/24/22
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Like, "to grow rich is glorious" territory but not like that little wimp Deng Xiaoping.
Jeffrey Rubard
Jan 26, 2022, 12:15:30 PM1/26/22
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a believer (though it seems impossible) in American electoral politics, I would seem to be
Bernie's "target market". I'm somehow not.
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