No
1159 “En mi opinión” Febrero
19, 2016
“IN GOD WE TRUST”
Lázaro R Gonzalez Miño Editor
Lázaro R González Miño para Alcalde
de Miami
AMENPER: Debate Demócrata
Hay que ser objetivos y sinceros, la
realidad es que aunque tengo simpatías con los republicanos, no puedo negar que
es mucho más satisfactorio oír los debates demócratas.
Los republicanos se ponen a discutir
por cosas feas, lo demócratas de ponen a discutir por cosas agradables, se
ponen a discutir cuál es el que nos va a regalar más cosas.
Cómo nos van a regalar cosas esa gente,
los dos candidatos se pelean por ver quién va a regalar más cosas, vamos a
tener seguro de salud gratis, cada uno más gratis que el otro, vamos a tener
beneficios que nos permitirán recibir dinero y vivienda sin pagar nada,
nuestros hijos van a poder ir a cualquier universidad sin tener que pagar
nada, no tenemos que preocuparnos por la defensa nacional porque si
uno de ellos sale, nuestros enemigos se convertirán en nuestros amigos.
Esto es una maravilla, es algo
fantástico, no había oído nada mejor que esto desde que mi abuelita me contó
sobre los reyes magos.
¿Se acuerdan?, que maravilla, todo que
había que hacer una cartica y lo recibíamos todo, ni nosotros ni
nuestros padres tenían que hacer nada, los reyes magos lo pagaban todo.
Nunca me puse a pensar de donde sacaban
el dinero los reyes magos para repartir tantos juguetes.
Pero claro yo tenía cinco años, y no
pensaba en esas cosas secundaria cómo de donde sale el dinero.
Lo que me sorprende es cómo hay tantas
personas que piensan ahora igual que yo cuando tenía cinco años.
No saben, o no quieren saber de dónde
sale el dinero, simplemente les gusta escuchar los cuentos de Santa Claus y los
reyes magos, debatiendo en la televisión como candidatos demócratas, para ver
qué nos va a regalar más cosas con el dinero de los demás.
Me gusta oír que vamos a tener tantas
cosas de gratis, y casi me quedo dormido durante el debate, por el estado de
satisfacción, ya no tengo que trabajar más, ¡que sabroso!.
Pero cuando terminó y me puse a
pensar lo que me esperaba con ese candidato Bernie Sanders que quiere que le dé
el 95% de lo que gano para que él lo reparta, y la otra candidata Hillary
Benghazi Clinton que quiere todavía ser más dadivosa que Bernie con nuestro dinero.
No me pude dormir, me acosté y me tuve que levantar para escribir este E Mail a
las 3 de la madrugada, que se los voy a pasar mañana
La verdad que cuando uno analiza la
cultura de dependencia que han creado estos Santa Claus y Reyes Magos, cuando
pensamos lo que nos espera con una candidata por un lado que abandona a
nuestras tropas en combate, y el otro que quiere resolver
el problema sin pelear rindiéndose a enemigo, cualquiera pierde el
sueño.
Hay una canción que lo
dice:"Melchor Gaspar y el negro Baltazar..." me la cantaba mi
abuelita de chico y solo recuerdo esa parte. Pero sé que Baltasar
era el que llevaba el oro así que es obvio que es el que más
regalaba.
Por el otro lado está Santa Claus que
es el rey mago americano que todavía regala más.
El debate demócrata es realmente una
confrontación entre el Negro Baltazar y Santa Claus, debatiendo cuál de ellos
va a regalar más.
Viéndolo de esa manera me parece que es
más divertido, podemos transferir nuestra mente a cuando teníamos cinco años y
disfrutar el debate con alegría infantil.
AMENPER: De tal manera amó Dios al mundo
Evangelio de San Juan: Porque
de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado a su Hijo unigénito, para que todo
aquel que en él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna.
O sea lo que dice Juan en
este versículo del evangelio es que el ser cristiano es algo para todo el
mundo, y que el requisito es la aceptación personal del sacrificio de
Cristo.
No podemos juzgar si
alguien es cristiano o no lo es, eso es entre Dios y la persona.
Dios, que es el único que
puede ver lo que nosotros realmente pensamos.
Tengo que defender a Donald
Trump por las declaraciones de Francisco.
Porque aunque yo pudiera
pensar igual que Francisco que Trump no es cristiano, sería una apreciación
personal, por el otro pasaje bíblico que dice que “por sus frutos lo
conocerán”.
Pero lo que diría es que un
cristiano no debiera tener cierta conducta, nadie tiene la autoridad para decir
que Trump o cualquiera otra persona no es un cristiano.
O sea que diría que no
parece un cristiano, que no actua en su vida como un cristiano, pero no
puedo decir que no es cristiano porque el ser cristiano es una cuestión
personal entre el individuo y la aceptación del sacrificio de Cristo.
No por su religión ni por
una conducta particular, porque todos somos pecadores, por eso tuvo Cristo que
venir al mundo y por eso vino, para que pudieran ser perdonados esos pecados
con su sacrificio vicario de eso se trata el cristianismo verdadero.
Y cuando Cristo vino al
mundo en su pueblo había muchas religiones, los fariseos, los saduceos, los
esenios y numerosas sectas judías todas basadas en la ley de Moisés.
Jesucristo no se nombró
miembro de una religión, atacó a los fariseos, que se decían doctores de las
escrituras, no por lo creían, porque en lo que creían era la ley de Dios, pero
los llamó hipócritas porque no se comportaban de acuerdo con lo que
predicaban.
Pero fariseos eran la
mayoría de los seguidores de Cristo, y un fariseo fue San Pablo, fariseo de
fariseos y miembro del Sanedrín, y Cristo lo escogió para predicar entre los
gentiles.
Cristo no vino para derogar
la ley judaica de una secta determinada, pero para que con su sacrificio se
consumara la ley de Moises, de la condena de muerte por el pecado, muriendo el
por todos los pecadores, esto es el puro cristianismo.
Pero Caifás, el papa de los
fariseos, obligó a Poncio Pilatos para que lo crucificara, porque Caifás más
que un sacerdote defensor de la ley mosaica, era un político que le hacía juego
a los romanos y lo que más le importaba era su posición, era su control de la
religión mayor de aquella época en Israel.
Lo que deja abierto el Papa
Francisco con su conducta, es que muchos pudieran pensar que el Papa es como
Caifás, que es un político con una ideología y una agenda, y no es un
verdadero cristiano.
Aunque decir esto también
está incorrecto, porque nadie puede juzgar el cristianismo de otro.
Después de todo cuando se
le preguntó sobre el régimen de Raúl Castro dijo “¿quién soy yo para juzgar a
otro?” así que él entiende bien el concepto del cristianismo, pero a veces se
le olvida.
Pero lo puede probar, puede
probar que es un cristiano sincero, podemos decirle como Reagan dijo a
Gorbachov, tumbe esa muralla.
Tumbe la muralla de
Vaticano y deje que entren todos y se puedan apropiar de los tesoros del
Vaticano, sólo entonces puede decir es sincero en su pensar de que es correcto
dejar que entren todos en los Estados Unidos, para que crucen
indiscriminadamente sus fronteras y se apropien de las riquezas del país americano,
entonces podría hablar con propiedad.
Que abra las fronteras de
la Ciudad del Vaticano.
No creo en la infalibilidad
del Papa, es mi opinión particular, pero aunque creyera, esto no se trata de la
infalibilidad del Papa que es solamente en asuntos doctrinales, estamos
hablando de un individuo llamado Francisco, haciendo una proposición política,
entrando a criticar a un candidato, haciendo algo que por cierto es como un
apoyo al candidato, comportándose como Caifás.
No creo que Trump pudiera
haber tenido un golpe de suerte mayor que estas declaraciones de Francisco, le
ha asegurado la victoria en South Carolina.
Porque los evangélicos y
protestantes se agudizarán en contra del papado, y la mayoría de los católicos,
que son reamente nominales, no realmente creyentes de la denominación, se
volverán también contra las declaraciones del Papa, y todo esto beneficia a
Trump.
Y para mí este es el daño
mayor que nos ha hecho este político llamado Francisco.
Bernie Sanders Top 20 Contributors, 2011-2016. “EMO” Here you have the comunist in USA.
Lázaro R González Minno Editor.
Senator
Bernie Sanders has reported a total of 24,018 contributions ($200 or more)
totaling $10,676,737 in 2013-2014.
Top 20 Contributors to Campaign Cmte
|
Rank
|
Contributor
|
Hires lobbyists?
|
Lobbying firm?*
|
Lobbyist(s)
give to member? |
Total
|
Indivs
|
PACs
|
|
1
|
$15,000
|
$0
|
$15,000
|
||||
|
2
|
$13,500
|
$0
|
$13,500
|
||||
|
3
|
$12,500
|
$0
|
$12,500
|
||||
|
4
|
$11,000
|
$3,000
|
$8,000
|
||||
|
5
|
$10,250
|
$250
|
$10,000
|
||||
|
6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
|
6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
|
6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
|
6
|
DANPAC
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
|||
|
6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
|
6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
|
6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
|
6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
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6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
|
6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
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6
|
$10,000
|
$0
|
$10,000
|
||||
|
17
|
$9,500
|
$500
|
$9,000
|
||||
|
17
|
$9,500
|
$0
|
$9,500
|
||||
|
19
|
$9,100
|
$600
|
$8,500
|
||||
|
20
|
$8,700
|
$200
|
$8,500
|
||||
*registrants, or active lobbying firm
This
table lists the top donors to this candidate in 2011-2016. The
organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual
members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization
totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for
2011-2016and based on Federal Election Commission data available electronically
on echo Sunday, January 31, 2016. ("Help! The
numbers don't add up...")
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Select data type:
Select source of funds:
This page shows contributions grouped by
contributor to the candidate's campaign committee plus any super PACs or hybrid
PACs working on his or her behalf.
|
Contributor
|
Total
|
|
Alphabet
Inc
|
$98,810
|
|
$33,598
|
|
|
$31,148
|
|
|
Apple
Inc
|
$28,442
|
|
Amazon.com
|
$18,846
|
|
US
Navy
|
$15,595
|
|
Kaiser
Permanente
|
$15,514
|
|
University
of Illinois
|
$14,780
|
|
Columbia
University
|
$12,293
|
|
IBM
Corp
|
$12,040
|
|
Rutgers
University
|
$11,803
|
|
US
Postal Service
|
$11,126
|
|
Intel
Corp
|
$11,009
|
|
US
Air Force
|
$10,369
|
|
EMC
Corp
|
$10,310
|
|
Business Matters in the Visual Arts
|
$10,000
|
|
Stanford
University
|
$9,914
|
|
Facebook
Inc
|
$9,857
|
|
University
of Michigan
|
$9,750
|
|
New
York University
|
$9,650
|
This table lists the top donors to this candidate in
the 2016 cycle. The money came from the organizations' PACs; their individual members, employees or owners;
and those individuals' immediate families. At the federal level, the
organizations themselves did not donate, as they are prohibited by law from
doing so. Organization
totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
NOTE: Federal-level numbers are for the 2016 election
cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on
Sunday, January 31, 2016.
Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but
please credit the Center for Responsive Politics. For permission to reprint for
commercial uses, such as textbooks, contact the Center: info@crp.org
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?id=N00000528&
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?id=N00000528&
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Source of Funds (Campaign Cmte Only), 2011-2016
Pie Chart
  |
Individual Contributions
 - Small Individual Contributions - Large Individual Contributions |
$1,161,118
$841,825 (70%) $319,292 (27%) |
(97%)
|
 |
PAC
Contributions
|
$15,255
|
(1%)
|
 |
Candidate
self-financing
|
$933,171
|
(78%)
|
 |
Other
|
$-912,637
|
(-76%)
|
Pope: Trump
Is 'Not Christian'
Pope
Francis forcefully injected himself into the U.S. presidential campaign on
Thursday, assailing Republican candidate Donald Trump's views on U.S.
immigration as "not Christian" in a sign of growing international
concern at the billionaire businessman's election prospects.
Trump struck back. No stranger to controversy, the longtime party
front-runner in national opinion polls dismissed the leader of the world's
Roman Catholics as "disgraceful" for questioning his faith. He said
he was a proud Christian.
Francis told reporters during a free-wheeling conversation on his flight
home from a visit to Mexico, "A person who thinks only about building
walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian."
Trump has accused Mexico of sending rapists and drug runners across the
United States' southern border and has vowed if elected president to build a
wall to keep out immigrants who enter illegally.
It was not the first time U.S. allies have voiced concern over comments
by Trump.
More than half a million Britons signed a petition to bar him from
entering Britain, where he has business interests, in response to his call to
ban Muslims from entering the United States. British lawmakers decided against
a ban as a violation of free speech.
Asked if American Catholics should vote for someone with Trump's views,
Francis said, "I am not going to get involved in that. I say only that
this man is not Christian if he has said things like that. We must see if he
said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt."
It remained to be seen if the pope's comments would strengthen Trump in
the run-up to the Nov. 8 election. Trump's swipes at rival candidates and
heated exchanges with others have bolstered his standing in nominating contests
and opinion polls.
One of Trump's rivals, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush,
speaking in Columbia, South Carolina, said he would not question anyone's
relationship with God. But Bush, a Catholic, said, "It only enables bad
behavior when someone from outside our country talks about Donald Trump."
ISLAMIC STATE
Trump, a real estate developer and former reality TV show host, said,
"If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is
ISIS's ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished
and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president."
Trump was in South Carolina, which on Saturday will hold a Republican
nominating contest.
He said that in Mexico the pope heard one side of the story and did not
see what Trump called the crime, drug trafficking and negative economic impact
Mexico's policies had on the United States.
Thomas Groome, director of the Boston College Center on the Church in
the 21st Century, said Francis' comments were entirely in keeping with his
focus on mercy.
Latest News
Update
"The pope is
commissioned to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That's his job," Groome
said. "So when he was asked a direct question, he gave Trump the benefit
of the doubt, he said we have to be sure he said this, but if he said this, it
is not Christian."
"People often
think, 'You can't question my faith,' but of course we can ...," Groome
said. "There are rules ... we call them commandments and if you deny them
or ignore them you can't just say, 'I'm a good Christian.'"
Groome called Trump's
suggestion that Islamic State militants would target the Vatican egregious.
"Now it becomes a challenge to ISIS," he said.
Patrick Hornbeck,
chairman of the department of theology at Fordham University in New York, said
Francis' words were not surprising given the poverty he had just seen in
Mexico.
"There is very
little common ground between Pope Francis and Donald Trump," Hornbeck
said. He predicted the pope's words on electoral politics would have little
effect on any U.S. Catholics who liked Trump as a candidate.
"Those who are in
favor of Trump already will see this as confirmation of why they favor him and
those who oppose him are going to see this as a confirmation of why they oppose
him."
'A POLITICAL PERSON'
Trump has said he would
deport millions of illegal immigrants if he wins the White House. Last week,
responding to the pope's plan to visit the U.S.-Mexican border, he said Pope
Francis did not understand the issues.
"The pope is a
very political person ... I don't think he understands the danger of the open
border that we have with Mexico," Trump told the Fox Business Network last
week.
Asked about being
called a "political person", Francis said on Thursday, "Thank
God he said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as
'animal politicus.' So at least I am a human person."
Republican Catholics
appear to support Trump more than other Republicans do, according to a
Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll. It shows 43 percent of likely Republican Catholic
voters support Trump, compared to 38 percent of Republican voters generally.
The Pew Research Center
has said 71 percent of the U.S. population identifies as Christian. This
includes the 21 percent of the U.S. population that identifies as Catholic.
The pope was winning
the social media battle on Thursday with overall sentiment for Trump negative
and for Francis positive, according to social media analytic firm Zoomph.
Author Dan Dicker @Dan_Dicker tweeted, "Let's see @realDonaldTrump insult
his way out of this."
Trump's social media
director Dan Scavino @DanScavino tweeted, "Amazing comments from the Pope
- considering Vatican City is 100 percent surrounded by massive walls."
Evangelical Christian
leader Jerry Falwell Jr., who has endorsed Trump, described him as generous to
his employees and family, adding, "I'm convinced he's a Christian. I
believe he has faith in Jesus Christ."
Trump was not always at
odds with the pope. In 2013, the year Francis began his papacy, Trump compared
himself to the pope favorably. "The new Pope is a humble man, very much
like me, which probably explains why I like him so much!" Trump tweeted on Christmas Day
2013.
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Rubio Told
Spanish TV He Backed Amnesty, Keeping Obama's Executive Orders
By
Todd Beamon |
Marco Rubio
has supported amnesty for illegal immigrants in several interviews on Spanish
television, while speaking against it on the campaign trail and in Saturday's
Republican debate in South Carolina, the vice chairman of the Republican Party
of Miami-Dade County in Florida said Thursday.
"My fellow Miamian wants to have it both ways," Manny Roman wrote in an op-ed piece at Breitbart News. "He wants to do the rounds on Spanish media pandering to their viewers and then go in front of the American people, in English … and pretend to hold a conservative position on immigration."
"My fellow Miamian wants to have it both ways," Manny Roman wrote in an op-ed piece at Breitbart News. "He wants to do the rounds on Spanish media pandering to their viewers and then go in front of the American people, in English … and pretend to hold a conservative position on immigration."
Roman, who also is Hispanic-American, said
that Rubio touted amnesty in these interviews on Univision, the large
Spanish-language cable television network:
·
Last April, he said that he would not immediately rescind President
Barack Obama's 2012 executive order creating the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program because it helped many people. "I wouldn’t undo it [DACA]
immediately, as it is already benefiting a lot of people," he said.
·
In discussing the Gang of Eight bill in June 2013, Rubio said that
"first comes legalization of those here illegally, then comes border
security." He
added that legalization was not conditional.
·
In the same interview, the senator said that "the vast majority of
Republicans in Congress and throughout the country support a pathway to
citizenship."
·
During the Senate vote on the Gang of Eight bill in 2013, Rubio said
that not granting citizenship to illegal immigrants currently in the United
States was immoral because it "would create two tiers of residents in this
country." He added that he would lobby his "conservative colleagues
in Congress hard" to get the amnesty bill passed.
"Marco Rubio’s back-and-forth,
misleading statements in the last debate regarding his comments to the Spanish
press is unacceptable for someone aspiring to become president of the United
States," Roman said.
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Does Bernie Sanders Know What He’s
Doing?
by Pachacutec
Bernie Sanders is
taking a lot of heat for making promises everyone agrees can’t be achieved in
today’s Washington. However, Sanders is not just smoking free-love-sixties-dope
when he talks about universal health care, free college tuition, stopping
deportations, and drastically cutting the prison population.
I used to teach
negotiation to MBA students and lawyers seeking CLE credit, and have included
negotiation content in executive coaching and other consulting work I do. One
of the things I’ve sometimes taught was how to use audience effects to gain
leverage in negotiations. The best story I know to illustrate this comes from
Gandhi, from his autobiography.
Gandhi Rides First Class
Gandhi’s early
years as an activist led him to South Africa, where he advocated as a lawyer
for the rights of Indians there. One discriminatory law required “coolie”
Indians to ride third class on trains. Soon after arriving in South Africa,
Gandhi himself had been thrown off a train for seating himself in first class.
Looking for a way
to challenge the law, he dressed flawlessly and purchased a first class ticket
face to face from an agent who turned out to be a sympathetic Hollander, not a
Transvaaler. Boarding the train, Gandhi knew the conductor would try to throw
him off, so he very consciously looked for and found a compartment where an
English, upper class gentleman was seated, with no white South Africans around.
He politely greeted his compartment mate and settled into his seat for the
trip.
Sure enough, when
the conductor came, he immediately told Gandhi to leave. Gandhi presented his
ticket, and the conductor told him it didn’t matter, no coolies in first class.
The law was on his side. But the English passenger intervened, “What do you
mean troubling this gentleman? Don’t you see he has a first class ticket? I
don’t mind in the least his traveling with me.” He turned to Gandhi and said,
“You should make yourself comfortable where you are.”
The conductor
backed down. “If you want to ride with a coolie, what do I care?”
And that, my
friends, illustrates the strategic use of creating an audience effect to gain
leverage in a negotiated conflict. The tactic can be applied in any negotiated
conflict where an outside stakeholder party can be made aware of the conflict
and subsequently influence its outcome.
It’s the Conflict, Stupid
A couple of weeks
ago, members of the neoliberal wonkosphere and others in the pundit class tut-tutted,
fretted, and wearily explained to Sanders’ band of childish fools and hippies
that his “theory of change” was wrong. Well, not merely wrong, but deceptive,
deceitful, maybe even dangerous. False hopes, stakes are too high, and all
that. This was Clinton campaign, and more to the point, political establishment
ideology, pushback. When Ezra Klein starts voxsplaining how to catalyze a
genuine social, cultural, and political movement, you know you’ve entered the
land of unfettered bullshit.
Bernie Sanders,
like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Occupy Wall
Street, and Black Lives Matter before him, wants to use mass appeal audience
effects to renegotiate the country’s political and economic contract. The
strategy, writ small in Gandhi’s train ride tale, is perfectly applicable–and
has proven successful through history–in bringing about successful, peaceful,
radical change.
These movements
operate by forcing conflict out into the open, on favorable terms and on
favorable ground. Make the malignancy of power show its face in daylight.
Gandhi and the salt march. MLK and the Selma to Montgomery
marches. FDR picking fights and catalyzing popular support
throughout theNew Deal era, starting with the first 100 days. OWS changed American language and political
consciousness by cementing the frame of the 1% into the lexicon. BLM reminded
America who it has been and still is on the streets of Ferguson.
One FDR snippet is
instructive to consider in light all these discussions–and dismissals–of
Sanders’ “theory of change.” As FDR watched progressive legislation be struck
down by a majority conservative court, he famously proposed legislation that
would have allowed him to add another justice. He failed,but:
In one sense,
however, it succeeded: Justice Owen Roberts switched positions and began voting to uphold New Deal
measures, effectively creating a liberal majority in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish and National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, thus departing
from the Lochner v. New York era and giving the government more power in questions
of economic policies. Journalists called this change “the switch in time that saved nine.”
This was a
constitutional overreach by FDR, and it caused him political damage, but
forcing the conflict created pressure on the Court, making its actions highly
visible to the mass of people who wanted change, who voted for change, but did
not always see or understand how the elite establishment acts to thwart change.
Your Mistakes are My Ladder
The paths to
change for all of these movements are neither linear nor predictable. By
nature, they act like guerilla movements. They force conflict and force an
entrenched enemy into the open. Then, once exposed and vulnerable, the guerilla
tactic is to attack opportunistically on strategically favorable ground. In
peaceful social movements, “winning” means winning the hearts and minds of the
majority of the society’s stakeholders to the point where they actively choose
sides. First make them witnesses, then convert them into participants in the
conflict. That’s exactly what Gandhi did with the Englishman in the first class
compartment.
This is why calls
from pundits and Camp Clinton for Bernie to lay out the fifteen point plan of
how he gets from here to there are, at best, naïve. The social revolution
playbook requires creating cycles of conflict and contrast, taking
opportunistic advantage of your opponent’s mistakes. No one can predict with
certainty where and how those opportunities will arise, though you can choose
where to poke. If the Clinton campaign wants to know how Bernie can run that
playbook in action, it need only review its own performance campaigning against
him.
Does Sanders Have a Plan?
So, is Bernie
Sanders the underpants gnome of political change? Is his theory “1) Call for
revolution 2) ????? 3) Profit!”? Or does he have something else–some other
historical precedents–in mind? Everything I hear and see from the Sanders
campaign suggests the latter.
Take a look at
this ad from Sanders:
To me, this ad says
that Sanders understands very clearly what kind of coalition and movement he
needs to ignite to accomplish the vision he’s putting out in his campaign. It’s
an aspirational vision, sure. And neither he nor any movement he helps create
can or will accomplish all of it, just as FDR was unable to accomplish all he
set out to achieve. Still, accomplishing as much as FDR did, relatively
speaking, would be pretty damn good. Democrats used to say they liked that sort
of thing.
Or how about this
ad, where Sanders is introduced by Erica Garner explicitly as a “protestor,”
invoking the lineage of MLK:
Yes, I’d say
Sanders has a very clear, and historically grounded “theory of change.” What
those who question it’s validity are really saying is either: 1) they lack
imagination and can’t’ see beyond the status quo; 2) they lack knowledge of
history, including American history, or; 3) they understand Sanders’ “theory of
change” very well and want to choke it in the crib as quickly as they can.
They may succeed.
Elites may beat Sanders himself but they will not beat the movement he’s
invigorating but did not create. However, saying Sanders may fail is not the
same as saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or that what he’s setting out
to accomplish is impossible.
Because, if
history shows us anything, it is, indeed, possible.
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