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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.

link White House Task Force Seeks Fight on Childhood Obesity – Political Hotsheet – CBS News.

War on two fronts in the middle east.  Crushing government debt loads in all nations.  Out of control health care costs.  U.S. immigration showdown. Nuclear arming of rogue states. Calamitous oil gusher in gulf of Mexico.  Stubbornly high domestic unemployment.  These will now take secondary consideration by the White House now that “Childhood Obesity” is now the crisis du jour.

The steady march continues in the erosion of personal freedoms and responsibilities as the government officially dubs fat kids a crisis that requires government intervention.  We know how this will play out because we’ve seen it all before in other crisis du jours from the recent past.  Slick marketing and propaganda machinery will be employed to convince the public that such a thing actually exists, similar to global warming.  No doubt, nutritionists/pathologists and psychologists will be employed to plead the case to the general public.  In co-ordination, Hollywood will be engaged to champion the cause to fertile and naive minds.  Remember Sally Struthers years ago with her doe eyes pleading for money to feed hungry children?  Now it’ll be the opposite.  We’ll have washed up stars pleading with kids to forgo the big mac, the slurpee or the fried chicken.  It won’t be Sean Penn, he already has a cause, communism, so it will have to be someone with some kind of respect. 

I”m sure they’ll find someone suitable, after all, Hollywood is full of people living healthy normal non addictive lifestyles.  I can even think of slogans for any rappers who care to champion the cause.  “Do da weed, dis da feed”, or ” bein’ big fat, ain’t where it at”.  How about more mainstream slogans, ” eat like a bird, pass on thirds”.  An entire new industry is created to “help the kids”.  Telethons, marathons, bowl-a-thons, sing alongs, everything except eat-a-thons to encourage food abstinence.

As any experienced parent knows, to forbid any activity from your children is an open invitation for them to do exactly the opposite. Years of admonitions not to use narcotic drugs has only ballooned the size of the population doing them, so much so that it’s a mainstream phenomenon, not the isolated activity a few dopeheads participated in 30 years ago.  Oddly, while cigarette smoking has managed to reach pariah status, the smoking of marijuana is an acceptable activity.   When the new food nazis arrive, rebel kids can be found lurking in groups beyond the school grounds sneaking and sharing tubs of fried chicken with gravy. 

So in this new campaign to encourage thinnner kids, fat kids will be subject to even more ridicule and derision.  Not only that, but their parents will be exposed to an entirely new social dynamic as their children are compared to each other at parties like status symbols.  “My little Johnny has only 1% body fat, we only feed him kibble once a day”.  Parents of fat kids will not showcase them at parties, pretending that they are off at law school somewhere.

Speaking of law, that is the logical extension of how this campaign will roll out.  Initially, restaurants and purveyors of food deemed “not acceptable’ by some bureaucracy will need to have special licenses to operate.  The second stage is to make kids carry licenses or permits to carry certain kinds of food. 

“Can I see the permit for that bucket of chicken son?”

“Uh, I left it at home..”

“Please come with me, you can call your parents from the jailhouse”

And so the criminal population grows…..