I went and listened to Bernie Sanders speak when he was in Portland, Oregon.
I say listened because the NBA gymnasium he spoke in was filled with 19,000 people so I had to join another 8 or 9000 outside.
Blah blah blah numbers.
I've been reluctant to speak about the event on my blog because I needed time to let things summer. Vibe things out.
People are really passionate at those rallies and I'm a skeptic.
Bernie Sanders spoke with genuine conviction.
He called his audience "brother and sisters".
Those people who say if you don't pay your mortgage or student debt that the economy will crash.
Numbers numbers.. Blah blah.
They refer to you as "consumers".
not customers. You are a pawn in a never ending game of a chess or something except there's only so many pieces in chess.
Focusing... I ask you.. All around the world.. Especially in the United States.
watch that debate. I don't care if you have to YouTube it a day later.
There is a corporate machine out there.
Last election and the one before it was just mumbled about and mostly looked at as tall tale to most.
now if you read the NYTimes or anything other than Fox News or cnn these names and super pacs are realities.
I could ramble on this all day but there is a guy with a lot more knowledge and much better worded than I who wants that to change.
I don't know the language of this stuff there is a senator who does and has for a long time.
I'm not saying he's a saviour. Most the work will have to come from ordinary folk.
Listen to what he says and if we decide to continue to live in our ignorance than count me out.
I know a lot of people would like to be ignorant to politics.
i wish we could be a bunch of small countries and agree to disagree.
Watch the debate. Then let's talk. Seriously we gotta start talking sooner or later.
The world is changing. We must adapt. The age of convience is ending whether you like it or not.
-abc