Democratic Primaries

because I believe the things he's advocating would make life materially better for most Americans, and would do a great deal to reverse the dangerous imbalance in wealth we presently have.

But I have to confess a bit of unease at Bernie's supporters. They are pretty militant. This was the case in 2016 and certainly holds true now. The militancy isn't helpful because it is driving away people. I suspect it's the same thing that has happened so many times in history - a leader speaks of the need for revolutionary change in attitude, and this is mistaken by his/her followers as calling for an actual revolution.

Bernie's 'political revolution,' which he's taken a lot of flack for, is simply an effort to get us all back into good civics - following through with our responsibilities as citizens of a republic.

His people, indeed a number of young people I've spoken to, are ready to go out and hit the streets because they are furious about being debt slaves to student loans, having shitty healthcare and all that.

I've often written open statements to oligarchs on various online venues saying - hey, throw the middle class a bone. Give us healthcare and you can go on screwing us for the next seventy five years, just like you have been for the last seventy five. But no one really listens to me.

And we must confront the age-old truth that power NEVER concedes anything unless it is FORCED. Justice, real social and economic justice, may well come only through revolution - either the good kind that Bernie is advocating or the other kind, which I don't even want to think about and am horrified at the prospect of living through.