Every day is a new day. Every distance is not near.
x YouTube VideoNo one said it would be easy. We all knew better from the start. A democratic uprising against the entrenched powers of the 1%? All the 'smart' money laughed it off as impossible. It did fly in the face of what most of us had come to expect of our system – big money domination of government, top to bottom.
The one thing that made the laughable possible was a guy named Bernie Sanders. I'm not trying to make a saint of him, but you've got to hand it to Bernie. He's a liberal people's champion with the heart of a lion. And what's more, he's a man for this moment in history. He represents change long denied.
A democratic socialist eschewing all corporate money and superPACs, a person known for speaking brutal truth to power, an iconic liberal champion of the people's interests, on a campaign of radical reform fueled by individual donors only, a campaign beholden only to the American people. That's historic shit right there. And they never saw it coming. Impossible, they said. Doomed from the start by his rejection of Big Money, they pronounced.
They underestimated our hunger for change.
The millionaire pundit class are flabbergasted. They don't know what the fuck is going on and are having a difficult time imposing their corporate views on the reality on the ground, the mismatch has become too much to manage in the age of Google – the truth is out there. The establishment is in turmoil. Both parties are coming apart at the seams. And the fatcats are flummoxed.
“I find the whole thing astonishing and what’s remarkable is the amount of anger whether it’s on the Republican side or the Democratic side,” the Wall Street mogul said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “Bernie Sanders, to me, is almost more stunning than some of what’s going on in the Republican side. How is that happening, why is that happening?” With Inequality Rising, Billionaire Steve Schwarzman Expresses Surprise That American Voters Are UnhappyIt goes to show how out of touch the ruling elite are as a group. Inside the bubble of self-indulgent luxury that these millionaires and billionaires swim in, nothing is real, nothing is remotely like the rest of the nation or world where things aren't so fucking nice, where people worry about feeding their kids or heating their homes, or having a home or paying their medical bills – or their children getting shot in the streets or assaulted and thrown in jail, or paying for them to go to college or giving them hope.
When everything is handed to you on a silver platter, it (apparently) might escape your notice that the poor pay for that shit. That dark calculus won't work in the clean uncluttered minds of the filthy fuckin' rich. They've no room for consequences or personal responsibility as long as paid-for outcomes are suitably awesome. They are all that truly matters after all, as long as they're cool, the rest of us can deal.
The rest of us are going to have our moment.
The establishment is a formidable foe, and they are, by many measures, ahead at this moment. They have had their victories – which is hardly surprising since they own the media and both parties. But they should be very concerned that our impossible people's campaign is breathing down their necks, and it ain't nearly over. 42 million little people bucks in February for Bernie.
This revolution has only just begun.
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