Win, lose or draw, Bernie Sanders has shown his country the way. To Americans, their country has always been the stuff of unfulfilled dreams. It has been the country that could have been. It has sunk into the acidic bog of capitalism gone rampant under Donald Trump.
Is it not time to rescue that American dream? What of the promise of the colossus in New York’s harbor? Nobody believes that Bernie Sanders can do much in his first four years in the presidency. It will take years to repair the damage of Trump. It will take a willing and eager Congress. It will take drastic measures to wrest control of U.S. politics from the effete one per cent.
But president Bernie can enact a proper single payer Medicare. It is worth fighting through Congress. Let the Canadians admire the American system for a change.
He can also work on restoring America’s foreign relations that Donald Trump has put in the dumpster.
Bernie could certainly end the knee-jerk support for Israel that has been destroying that small country. He could end the stupid wall that insults all Mexicans. He could bring decency and openness back to helping the world’s refugees.
These are things that Joe Biden cannot do. Biden is tied to the past. Bernie can see the future. Besides, Biden is leaving himself committed to the right appointments for the democratic party also rans who are scurrying to his side for the upcoming convention. They are just more commitments to the past that Biden does not need. Even Michael Bloomberg, with all his wealth, would probably love an appointment as ambassador to the Court of St. James. Bernie brings few such pieces of baggage to the job of president.
What Bernie Sanders brings is the will to do the job that must be done. He will bring the United States of America into the 21st Century.
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