Posted on 06/01/2016 6:52:06 AM PDT by MoochPooch
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. — It is a glorious day in Northern California, and Lewis Elbinger, a 68-year-old Bernie Sanders supporter, is feeling great — or, as he puts it, “high vibe.” In the five decades since he first painted a white peace sign on his forehead, protested the Vietnam War and hitchhiked to India to become a monk, in fact, he has never felt more optimistic about the country than at this very moment.
“A consciousness is rising,” he says.
A case could be made that this is not exactly so in the sense that Elbinger means it.
Donald Trump is now the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Hillary Clinton, according to everyone who is not a Sanders supporter, will be his Democratic opponent, meaning that Sanders is about to become the latest in a long line of progressive candidates to lose.
But that is not how things appear in Mount Shasta, where the light seems brighter, the air cleaner, the sky bluer, and where Elbinger is about to get into his car with two fellow Berners and drive 130 miles south. The destination is Chico, where he will try to become a Sanders delegate representing California at this summer’s Democratic National Convention. Put another way, he will be the older, white-haired Jewish guy with steadfast 1960s values trying to win an election against all odds.
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“Give me a Teddy Roosevelt please. “
The ‘Great Progressive’?
I love Bernie Sanders. He is great for the country.
He is a reminder as to why we can never elect a Marxist. He is also a reminder on why people like Hilarity belong in prison. They are criminals who use Marxism to deflect attention away from their real goal which is looting the treasury.
The hypocrisy is both sad & hilarious.
This reminds me of an old Smothers Brothers skit (boy, I'm dating myself) where a hippie chick is describing her commune's way of life. "We share everything, yada yada yada."
The interviewer asked, "What do you do for any major purchases?"
She laughs, "Oh, I use my Diner's. My dad's loaded."
Ain’t nothing sadder than an aging hippie...
Maybe when Bernie said “chicks dig rape” he was right.
Facing each other, Jackson allowed Dickinson to fire. Following the loud crack and billowing smoke, Jackson still stood. “My God! Have I missed him?” cried Dickinson. No, actually. Jackson had taken a bullet to the chest but simply disregarded it. He then took careful aim and fired at Dickinson, who was required by rules of the duel to face Jackson and remain still. Dickinson also took a bullet to the chest, but he was not Old Hickory; he died that evening. Jackson lived with that bullet in his chest for the rest of his life. It caused him pain and numerous respiratory difficulties, but never took him down.
Andrew Jackson was also the victim of an assassination attempt after he was elected president. A man named Richard Lawrence walked up to the president and tried shooting him with both of the pistols he carried. Both guns misfired, even though they were later tested and said to be in perfect working order. Jackson did not take lightly to being a target. He proceeded to use his cane to beat the man senseless.
IMO our greatest.
Oh,please don’t tell me that the hippies have resurfaced!!!!
Exactly. It is how the Marxist took complete control over the minds of our children: Flip and warp and control the meaning of Words.
Wittgenstein and Fichte and Wundt’s pychological warfare on the minds of our children using TV/Movies/Music and publik skools to repeat the lies and misinformation, until the Big Lie becomes the Truth (Hitler)-—like Men can be Women and Snow is Black and sodomy is a virtue. (All to erase identity/Truth/God’s Design (Christian Ethics) and the male/female paradigm (pure Marxism), for the NWO of non-thinking, interchangeable, no biological connections to eliminate all Natural Instincts, just controlled non-thinking “bots” which we see today “graduating” from colleges-—brainwashing, enslavement factories of the elite sodomites to erase all Natural Instincts/Wisdom.)
Control the Words/Language and they can destroy the meaning of ALL Words/covenants to literally mean the opposite which will desacralize Life and remove Reason from the “rational” animal. Without the Wisdom/Knowledge of the Ages, people have tribal minds (group-”thinkers”)—ignorant serf/slave-type minds and our skools make them “think” (LOL) that they KNOW everything—so they are ignorant, obnoxious brainwashed, immoral morons with no absolutely no virtue.
Now people”feel” the “right” (warped) emotions when they hear the word, “Love” which can now mean the most VILE, degrading behaviors which are now “good” (Using people in immoral, filthy, meaningless, degrading ways=as a Means to an End (now codified into our “Justice” (virtue) system (LOL) which is unconstitutional, but WTH.
There are some of us in that Generation who actually went to Nam and and some of us never came home. Don’t paint with a broad brush.
He’s an old hippie and he don’t know what to do.....should he hang onto the old....should he grab onto the new....he’s an old hippie and this new life’s just a bust....he ain’t tryin’ to change nobody, he’s just tryin’ real hard to adjust....
They weren’t anti-war, they wanted us to fight on the side of the Viet Cong.
I assume you are aware of The Frankfurt School’s role in all this.
And the silent majority of the graying generation, silent these decades of progressive, queer, PC BS that we scorn, will be speaking loudly in November.
Now that's an achievement. Very hard to hitchhike across an ocean.
Peace and love- right; like those other wonderful socialist experiments...Nazi Germany, Communist China and the old Soviet Union.
Patton's nearest counterpart these days appears to be Sheriff Joe.
Just realized, counterpart is incorrect. Nearest replacement candidate, maybe.
Sounds good to me. I’d vote for him.
Ironically for the graying hippies of California, Sanders would have the state by a landslide were it not for the millions of poor and ignorant immigrant drones who have settled the state in the years since their youth heydays.
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