Dear America: Please Get Your Head Out of Your [expletive] About Bernie Sanders

The Huffington Post's Politics The Blog ^ | June 8, 2015 | Emil Mella, writer, musician, proud Dominican, proud progressive.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Okay, sorry, America. That title was a bit rude. And crass. And uncalled for. I'll admit it.

But please just do the entire world a favor now, and just gently pull with your neck, softly now, easy does it, so that perhaps your collective head is not as far inside of your rectum as it currently is, and kindly make sure that said head is on top of your shoulders, where it belongs, you know, thinking, and stuff.

Thanks.

This is an open letter to the American people.

In the race to decide the next President of your arguably great nation, there is one candidate who has been drawing the largest crowds of any candidate visiting the key primary state of Iowa (including the Republican primary candidates, who probably estimate about 1 percent of the American population at this point). A candidate who out-fundraised Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul in any of their first 24 hours as candidates. A candidate whose policies align with the majority of Americans on everything from income inequality to money's role in politics to the minimum wage to federally financed political campaigning to abortion to overturning Citizens United to global warming and government taking action to combat it to the affordability of a college degree to gun control to government surveillance to passing a law legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states.

A candidate who was one of the thousands of Americans who marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in his historic March on Washington in 1963....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Emil Mella, Amateur writer, amateur musician, proud Dominican, proud progressive. Columbia University, Class of 2019.

[VanDeKoik]

“Okay, sorry, America. That title was a bit rude. And crass. And uncalled for. I’ll admit it. “

Let me guess, a millennial?

[Bullish]

This piece of excrement needs a double-bag barf alert.

[OttawaFreeper]

Dear PuffHost: Socialism does not work...thump..socialism does not work...thump...socialism does not work..thump...socialism does not work..

[MeshugeMikey]

emil looks too young...to be a millenial....to my eye

here we see emil..performing Walk On The WIld SIde...a favorite of pretenders who live and perform...in mommies basement

[eyeamok]

Maybe Emil should go on a fact finding mission to Venezuela and Cuba to see up front and personal how HIS IDEAS play out in the real world, I WILL PAY FOR THE AIRFARE! in fact it should be a Requirement for EVERY High School Graduate to spend 2 weeks there, just to see how their Wonderful Teacher’s ideals look when implemented.

[Vince Ferrer]

Communism 2016: This time the right people will be in charge.

[a fool in paradise]

So, I will now address the groups of people that somehow remarkably make saying "this old white heterosexual American man whose platform is entirely in touch with most of mainstream American politics should be President" a weird, taboo thing to say.

Translation, NEVER MIND THE CIS-GENDER PRIVILEGE, VOTE FOR THE PUTZ ALREADY!

[wac3rd]

Can I see your SAT’s and grades to get into Columbia? Didn’t think so....

[bigbob]

Bernie seems like the kind of guy you’d like to go have a beer or two with, unlike Hillary he seems like an actual human being and it would be fun to argue politics with him. Then stick him with the tab, cuz “to each according to his needs” and I needs free beer.

[GeronL]

This person is a teenager and still in college? or high school?

[a fool in paradise]

Don't make it about socialism either, now. FDR and Martin Luther King, Jr. both got called socialists in their day, so good luck arguing that it's a step in the wrong direction, Sanders just happens to use the label.

Translation: Don't listen to the critics who call him a Socialist, even if that IS what he calls himself.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The author or Mr. Obama?

[Libloather]

An ‘independent’ socialist. Kinda defeats the purpose - no?

[a fool in paradise]

Also, one quick thing, he's a democratic socialist. There's a difference. One word. An entire word that references a completely different set of policies, a different set of foreign examples.

"Why was the NAZI party called the National Socialist Democratic Workers Party and why do people want Socialism?"

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101101104337AAMUdM7

THAT'S supposed to make me feel better, that he's a "Democratic Socialist Democrat"???

[dead]

There are a thousand Bernie Sanders in the old man bars that remain in Greenwich Village. And they usually are cool to have a beer and a debate with.

May they forever remain on such bar stools where they belong.

[fatnotlazy]

“Columbia University, Class of 2019.”

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As Sonny Corleone said to his brother Michael in The Godfather:

“Whatcha go to college to get stupid?”

[a fool in paradise]

Granted, the U.S. has had a major issue with communism in the past century, and communists tends to associate themselves with socialism, and some people argue that it's difficult to get Americans to even understand the difference between the two.

Never mind Communist Party USA's endorsement of Bernie Sanders. Really. Totally different. Look, a squirrel!

http://peoplesworld.org/about-us

Peoplesworld.org is a daily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker.

I located this link through a CPUSA post on Facebook:

Bernie Sanders goes into action for real shared sacrifice

http://peoplesworld.org/bernie-sanders-goes-into-action-for-real-shared-sacrifice/

and there is this:

2014 Elections: A Framework for Struggle to Turn the Tide

http://www.cpusa.org/2014-elections-a-framework-for-struggle-to-turn-the-tide/

Sen. Bernie Sanders is considering a run for President in 2016 "to educate, organize and mobilize the working families of our country to stand up for their rights." He wants to continue to shift the debate away from austerity to the idea that "we need to make government work for all the people, not just the 1 percent."

[Billthedrill]

Yeah, right. I'm going to be lectured to on socialism by a kid with his head as full of crap as his diaper. Because I've never heard any of this malarkey before.

That said, I'd love to see the Dems run Bernie Sanders with the full backing of the gushing, hyperventilating media. I could use the laughs.

[a fool in paradise]

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Amateur writer, amateur musician, proud Dominican, proud progressive. Columbia University, Class of 2019.

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CLASS OF 2019