To the horror of the Democratic National Party, presidential candidate hopeful Bernie Sanders is presently blasting his way through the US with a massage of light and hope, inspiring voters, especially young voters, across the country to believe in the impossible.
This is an anathema to the DNP; for despite decades of repeated unintentional successes, the the elites of this party have continually failed to realize the key to obtaining the White House.
For reasons utterly unexplainable, when it comes to electing an individual to the highest office of the land, Americans are essentially messianic in nature. Time and time again, it is the dark horse that seems to come out of nowhere that invariably ends up spinning and grinning in the swivel chair parked behind the desk in the Oval Office.
For crissake, look at the damned record:
Carter, peanut farmer, dark horse, out of nowhere, becomes President.
Ronald Reagan. Who? dark horse, blindsides the Democrats. Blows away the DNP’s groomed boy.
Bill Clinton, po’ boy, from out of nowhere, dark horse, blindsides the Republicans.
Bush Jr., cocaine snorter, AWOL reserve pilot, good ol’ boy, dark horse, topples the DNP’s groomed boy.
Obama, (can’t get more of a dark horse than that!) Topples the Republican’s groomed boy.
Do you see a pattern here? Every time either Party grooms a candidate, the citizenry rebels and, if there is one, goes for the dark horse.
Fast-forward, and here we are again. All dressed up and ready for her coronation, ‘Goddammit I Deserve It’ Hillary Clinton awaits her long-sought crown, which the DNC will dutifully ordain her with, irrespective of the consequences.
One would be a fool to deny that Hillary Clinton is not a most capable organizer and administrator. She has spent years getting her ducks in a row, carefully making sure there is a bottomless pot of Super-PAC money from any available source. A pliant, faithful guard of Super-delegates to smooth her way to inevitable victory, should any unforseen dark horse appear on her horizon.
And there - here comes that dark horse again. The unlikely Senator Bernie Sanders, an old dynamic Jewish guy who blasts onto the presidential candidacy scene rolling up enthusiastic populations as effortlessly as a mustang dashing across a prairie.
And now I come to the sad, sad tragic third act prelude, in which, waiting in the wings, is that other dark - very dark - horse, the soon to be President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Trump? How? Why? Because for the Democrats, this primary season has the stink of the 1968 Chicago convention about it.
In that Convention, the enthusiastic youth of America was pulling for an end to the Vietnam War. Sadly, the elites of the Democratic national Convention had their caps set on their favorite groomed boy, Hubert Humphrey. With a little gerrymandering, Even though 80 percent of the primary voters had been for anti-war candidates, the delegates had defeated the peace plank by 1,567¾ to 1,041¼.The perceived cause of this loss was the result of Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley, and President Johnson pulling strings behind the scenes. Humphrey, even though he had not entered a single primary, had won the Democratic nomination - and then went on to lose the election to the Republican candidate, Richard Nixon. Dark days indeed.
Why did the Democrats lose? Not because Richard Nixon was a fabulous choice that the country embraced like a lover, but because the motivated younger voters of the Democratic Party who were ready for a change, felt disenfranchised and walked away.
They did not vote. Nixon won.
Are you starting to see what I am getting at?
If Hillary Clinton, with her Goldman Sachs banking baggage, thinks she can expect a mass transfer of loyalty from the young voters in the Bernie Sanders rank and file after she snatches the Democratic Party crown, she and her adherents are very, very much mistaken.
Perhaps it slips the DNP’s attention (as it has before,) that younger adults don’t go for 2nd best, it’s not in their nature. Whether you like it or not, young adults want it ALL and they want it NOW! If they don’t get it, then fuck you! They’ll wait it out.
Those four possible Supreme Court Justices that the DNP wants so badly? Well, that’ll just have to wait - until most of you are dead.
The young voters? They’ll get another chance, perhaps twenty years down the road. But you, you aging deadwood, conservative Democrat elites? You’ll have your Hillary. You’ll have your Democratic Convention victory.
- And Then you’ll have your bitter, humiliating defeat at the hands of the less popular Republicans, the smirking triumphant face of Donald Trump grinning back at you from your TV screen and there you are, wishing you were dead. You might as well be.
