NOTE: Fair warning. I'm going to be very blunt in this pro-Bernie Sanders diary. If that's just going to piss you off, hurt your feelings, or otherwise offend you, cause you agony or despair – spare yourself. If you read it anyway, please know it's not my purpose to hurt anyone or piss anyone off. My only purpose is to not mince words on matters that alarm me or matters of grave import. This is both.
Are you satisfied with the way unbridled capitalism is destroying the eco-sphere?
Are you satisfied with being ruthlessly dominated by the uncaring and unethical 1%?
Are you satisfied with the U.S. Military occupying the world and inflicting unnecessary war on a high percentage of the world's population, all to feed an out-of-control armaments industry and a depraved war culture that feeds on itself?
Are you satisfied with sending our young to war for no good reason? Are you okay with the 49,933 homeless veterans? The one million wounded, the untold number of damaged in untold numbers of ways? Does 22 veteran suicides a day sound about right to you? How about active military on food stamps and struggling. Do we ask young people to serve and then treat them this way?
These guys are cannon fodder for our leaders. That is the perverse reality we are confronted with. All the glory glory is hype. War is a nasty business, unspeakable evil. No one can defend that indictment.
We send bright, innocent young Americans to wars that don't have to be fought or don't have to be fought by us. And then we won't support and care for them when they come back home, damaged or whole.
As the world's leading warrior nation, who can’t be bothered to care for its own, we have no honor and that's an insult to nobler warrior traditions. A warrior with no honor is just a killer. People of any noble tradition, especially in this day and age when the horrors of war have been made so abundantly clear, would seek world peace. Any rational, responsible adult would.
Who would seek to increase the amount of human misery and suffering in the world? Who can look around and say 'what this place needs is more war? More suffering? More misery and horror?
We need to change our course.
What have we become? More importantly, where do we go from here?
Does it bother you at all that we spend most of our treasure on extremely dubious things? Hateful and harmful things? Downright evil things?
This is the reality we are faced with. We do grave injustice to everyone and everything we care about if we continue to support it.
There should never be an unnecessary war. Never.Are you satisfied with our nation being known around the world as violent bullies and torturers?
Mass slaughter of human beings? Is this the level of civilization we aspire to?
Is it fine by you that corporations, lobbyists, ALEC and Citizens United have made our government a cesspool of corruption? Or that the Military Industrial Complex leads our 'leaders' around by the nose? (I’m being kind.)
Are you okay with all the 'reform' legislation that's been passed to help the 1% and screw the rest of us?
Are you okay with all the actual reform legislation to help veterans or ordinary people that has been blocked by the millionaire assholes who are supposed to be representing us?
As wealth and productivity soar, are you not bothered by 95% of all new wealth going to the top 1%?
Do you not mind the many ways in which the 1% are undermining every responsible attempt to do something meaningful about climate change, inequality, social injustice, poverty, war or environmental degradation?
Do you not believe their decadence shames our nation?
Who can love corporate America, the TPP and corporate welfare?
Do you not object to the millions of jobs that have been exported? And the even more that will be exported under the TPP?
Do you not mind billionaires and corporations dodging their taxes? And having their way with the rest of us?
Do you approve of war criminals getting away with murder? Torture? Banks getting away with theft?
Do you believe the very fact of mercenaries in America is not an abomination? Prisons for profit? Please. Justice? Please.
Are you willing to vote for anyone who is against single-payer universal health care as a right?
Are you okay with more of the same?
Forgive me for being so blunt but surely you can see why I would be.
Are you seriously willing to vote for more income and wealth inequality and more war? Are you seriously willing to put the Wall Street/Military Industrial Complex/1% candidate into power against all the objective evidence that it would be an absolute disaster for our party, our nation and the world? Not to mention an affront to our ideology. Peace loving people can't support this. Do you really want to miss this opportunity for serious and very hopeful change, this incredibly rare opportunity, you really want us to blow it?
People who are finally ready for some real change are coming together to work for and back Bernie Sanders and help do something about the sorry state we've come to. We can't blow this chance for change. It is too rare. And it is too badly needed.
This is the revolution we've been waiting for.
Thanks very much for reading. You are all cordially invited to the Bernie Sanders revolution. R.S.V.P. @ BernieSanders.com
Muchas gracias, muchachos! Venceremos!