Bernie As Fonzie
link: Sanders gets a second look
Bernie Sanders is the extension of the bad boy obsession phenomenon that consumes many young girls during a crazed time in their lives. He’s the geriatric version of Fonzie. Usually during their teen years but not exclusively, women are vulnerable to the charms of roguish boys, who appear to live outside of the mainstream and flout popular social norms. Heck, they’re even a bit dangerous. To their friends and families, the girls’ obsession seems weird because the object of their affections are generally louts, ne’er do wells and are social outcasts. No good could ever come of the relationship. Eventually of course, the boy moves on to the next victim and the gal is crushed.
It’s a stretch to imagine a leather jacketed, greasy haired, brooding hoodlum turning into Bernie Sanders ( and frankly that should scare all girls off of such guys) but the parallels are astonishing. Among all of the objectionable people vying to attain the nomination to be the Democratic nominee, Sanders is by far the most objectionable. For, while all of the candidates conveniently say the same things and pander to whomever they can to get votes, Sanders genuinely believes his crazed utterances and has unabashedly been doing so his entire career.
Similar to his senate cohort, Joe Biden, Sanders has lived his entire life suckling on the public teat, rising from guitar playing communes to mayor of a small town to being elected to the US senate, to being a contender for the US presidency. It’s Horatio Alger-The Nightmare Version. Throughout the time of his rise in political favor, he has consistently advocated for support of a socialist society with the usual bleats about wealth disparity, racism, sexism etc etc. Fortuitously for Sanders, this on going preaching against capitalism has not prevented him from acquiring great wealth, including several homes, a large stock portfolio, big payouts and even a most un-socialist bauble, an Audi R-8 sports car worth a cool 100g.
Sanders is not alone in his hypocritical life. Al Gore and Joel Osteen are the most obvious examples of charlatans who preach their respective brands of piousness while having a siphon attached to the public purse. The genius of all of these people is their ability to find that part of the population that are susceptible to their entreaties…and then make truckloads of money from them! Al Gore is not living in a wood cabin eating kelp and travelling by oxcart. Joel Osteen is not wearing sackcloth and handing out bread. And Bernie Sanders is not sharing his ill gotten filthy lucre with his adoring acolytes.
During this interminable period of Democratic debates, few things are more odious than to see this avowed socialist wag his finger at the public, telling them how things should be. Imagine; a man who has done nothing, telling people how to do everything. According to the ‘polls’ however, his popularity is strong across a wide swath of America. I think this is the equivalent of polling goo goo eyed teen aged girls who think that Bernie is Fonzie. Nobody would trust the judgement of teen aged girls on anything much less major decisions on the direction of society. His push for socialism continues even as there is not a single instance of such a system working anywhere, now, or ever in the history of the world. Wake up girls; the man’s a goof. He does live outside of the mainstream, he is anti social, but more importantly, he is more than a bit dangerous.