tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24213446.post1841665399194025743..comments2024-03-24T06:12:51.173-05:00Comments on jobsanger: How Will Sanders End His Now Quixotic Quest ?Ted McLaughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15035498835671628943noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24213446.post-83659096502876446612016-04-23T10:40:58.138-05:002016-04-23T10:40:58.138-05:00I will have a lot more to say in a couple of colum...I will have a lot more to say in a couple of columns I'm working on -- would have had one in, but one of our cats is on his way to the vet, and until he gets back and is, hopefully ok, I can't really concentrate -- and Em is taking him, so she can't do the editing. Should be nothing serious, I hope.<br />'<br />But the comment you quote sounds like one I would have written two weeks ago. It's not the column I'd write today -- that seems to be happening a lot. I no longer believe in the Bernie 'ethos' -- if it exists, it is a tiny speck barely visible in the hand=painted mural of his ego.<br />'<br />I'll try not to 'burn my arm out in the bullpen' because this is precisely the topic I am working on, but I have to ask what those who still believe in a Sanders ethos think it accomplishes.<br />'<br />There is a tendency to see Bernie as Don Quixote, maybe addled and a little old, but still somehow noble in fighting the gigantic windmill he thinks is a monster. But this just isn't true. There ARE real monsters running around the countryside, and Bernie is accompanied not by the common sense of Sancho, but by a whole retinue of servants, equally driven by his delusions, choosing to obey his commands and attack the windmill, seeing it as the real danger, and not bothering to even aim their guns at the two-headed destroyer that is threatening us. And while Bernie may have none of his enthusiasm quenched as he flies through the air, tossed aside by the windmill, his followers may not have the dedication, the courage, or the stamina to answer the call from the people fighting the real evils. <br />'<br />An ethos filled with that many lies, that much 'don't YOU dare do it ... but if I do it, I have an excuse so it is okay,' and an attitude that "I'll do everything possible to get my ideas known - and the great nobility that having those ideas shows I possess, except the things actually necessary to even begin to change things so they can happen." Is this ethos or ego?<br />'<br />I could go on, but I already have aa couple of first-drafted pages on just this, which should make it to Ted's desk in time to be inn tomorrow's posting.<br />;<br />(And Quint, the Quintessential Cat, seems to be suffering from something minor, which calms one section of my jangling nerves.)<br />'<br /> Prup (aka Jim Benton)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08376467128665482055noreply@blogger.com