COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RINF
"Vindication Of
Sanders"
Sorry, but this is an extremely superficial view.
Bernie proved himself a poor prospect for President when he
utterly capitulated to Hillary, abandoning the hopes and enthusiasm of millions
of followers.
She embodied everything that he rightly said was wrong, and
he still went ahead, campaigning for this murderous and utterly corrupt person.
It was Bernie's moment on the world stage, and he blew it,
completely.
Well, if he could not stand up in private to Hillary and her
flacks, he certainly could never hope to stand up to generals and admirals and
high-level security people and the representatives of massive special
interests.
Bernie’s behavior added strong evidence in support of the
idea that a person may prove an excellent campaigner and a failure at actually
doing anything worthwhile after campaigning.
Of course, Barack Obama had already provided convincing
evidence for the truth of the idea.
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Response to another
reader’s comment about Bernie moving from New York to safe white Vermont:
There is truth in what you say.
There was a huge movement of urban whites out of the cities
in the 1960s.
It was called White Flight, and I witnessed it first-hand in
Chicago of the mid-1960s.
It remains one of America's most profound and unresolvable
realities.
The very high violent crime rates among black males is the
main driving force, not skin color.
The stats are unmistakable with young black men committing
violent crimes at something on the order of 8 times that of others, and we find
exactly the same thing in places as diverse as South Africa or the Caribbean.
In fact, in recent years, we have seen successful,
middle-class American blacks doing exactly the same thing. Leaving urban areas,
on a smaller scale, smaller because there are simply fewer of them.
There is much hypocrisy around this matter amongst genuine
American liberals like Bernie.
