We progressives just might win out!

By SJ Otto

I remember when I went to vote for president in 2016. The place I went in North Newton, Kansas, and I was overrun by young people. The overwhelmingly went for Bernie Sanders. I also voted for Bernie. I should point out that us professional journalists always use the last name. But at times it seems I should use the familiar name of a person I truly appreciate.

I was amazed that day that so many young people came out to vote for Bernie. In Kansas Bernie won. That was among Democrats only. I remember, shortly after that, all the people who told me they could not, in good conscious, vote for Hillary Clinton. I knew she was in trouble, right then and their. When the general election came, my worst fears were realized. Donald Trump got elected president over Clinton.

At the time I was concerned about the future of Obama Care (Affordable Care Act). It wasn’t perfect, but it was better than the alternative—nothing. That is what we got from Trump. Young people don’t rely on programs for their healthcare needs, but old fart like me do. Our ass hole president immediately took away as much health care as he could. If it weren’t for the courts he’d have taken it all away. He said he would come up with a plan of his own so that everyone in the US could have health care. He lied. He went back to the old system that all right wingers love—a system that simply eliminates health care for the poor.

Now I see evidence that Bernie is almost in the lead. According to CNN:

“Poll of the week: A new Monmouth University poll of likely New Hampshire Democratic primary voters finds a close race with former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 20%, former Vice President Joe Biden at 19%, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at 18% and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 15%.

This is the second New Hampshire poll meeting CNN standards published this month that has Sanders in the top tier.

What's the point: The idea of Sanders winning the nomination is inconceivable to some, but it really shouldn't be. While few objective analysts would think of him as the frontrunner, it's pretty clear he has a clear path to the nomination.

The first step is to win the Iowa caucuses. This seems quite doable. He was at 20% in our latest CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll. Sanders was joined in the top tier by Biden, Buttigieg and Warren.

Iowa poll shows a tight four-way race in final weeks before the Democratic caucuses

The next step is to win in New Hampshire. Again, Sanders is in a position to do so. He's at or near the top of the polls now, and a win in Iowa would probably result in a bounce in the Granite State.

A lot of Sanders' pessimists would use this as an opportunity to point out that Iowa and New Hampshire aren't representative of the nation racially. That is, they're really white.”

Does this mean that Bernie has a chance of winning? He is the most dynamic candidate. The political establishment wants a centrist as Pete Buttigieg or Joe Biden to win. They want some one who will not rock the boat. The established news commentators want to get rid of Trump, but they want a “Trump light,” not an actual change. They love the system of supporting $millionaires and $billionaires. The love the idea of being rich. And they love the system that let’s them do that. But many of the millennials want real change. They want progressive government, not just Democrats who will keep up the system of worshiping $millionaires and $billionaires. The millennials of today may want something different.

This has becomes a generational struggle. We saw something similar recently when

“In July, the school board in a small Connecticut town called Killingly took what local officials said was a long-overdue step: removing the name of the school mascot, Redmen, which some Native Americans have deemed racist.

Students did not seem to rebel against the change, even agreeing in the fall to adopt a new name, the Redhawks.

But then the adults had their say.

Residents, apparently angered by the removal of the Redmen mascot, flocked to the polls in November and gave Republicans control of the town council and school board.

The new school board quickly voted to rescind the Redhawks name. And this week, at a contentious five-hour meeting, the board voted 5-4 to reinstate Redmen, which first became the school mascot in 1939.”

I hate to admit it, but I am the same age as many of these shitty ass holes who have voted in Republicans for the privilege of keeping a racist tradition alive. These jerks believed this stupid tradition was so important they put in ultraconservatives to run their city and school board.

People like this are sickening. I hope that these new millennials can help us push out these jerk-off conservatives, both Republican and centrist Democrats. Conservative rule must come to an end. We have the “Squad,” we have

Bernie, we need to take control of this country and jettison the conservative jack asses that have captured and nearly destroyed our country.

The future is ours if we take it.