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Bernie Sanders, the teflon candidate

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I used to be, four, five years ago, a Bernie fan. I stopped after being offended by his capitulation to Hillary. Then I began to see tell tale signs of his character, and eventually came to my own conclusion, that Bernie is a teflon candidate, who will attempt to wriggle out of every challenge by greasing his comments and behaviour. He is not genuine.

I am fully aware that most of the so called liberal, progressive and left of centre folks support the Democratic Party and also Bernie Sanders. Even Donald Trump himself seems to lament how the establishment Democrats are working to kill Bernie’s nomination unfairly.

So, writing a critic of Bernie was not going to be popular. Nonetheless, I post what is my analysis – and not post what is popular. For the same reason, me blaming todays false liberals (pseudo-liberal is a good adjective) has not been a popular move. I have lost some fair weather friends through a process of polarisation. That too is part of life, I understand.

But I am a thinking person and not a rubber stamp. I am not here to get popular, since I do not aim to live off other people’s hard work, like most politicians do including Bernie Sanders.

Like Jim Hightower wrote – swim against the current. Even dead fish can go with the flow. And I am not a dead fish, with all due respect to the fish family. They are successful animals, cold blooded, and can be of various skeletal types – jawless, cartilaginous or bony fishes, most of whom sleep with eyes open as most lack eyelids.

But, back to Hightower, I am not a dead fish, and I do post my views and support them with the logic that bolsters my views, which are always flexible and will change if better information or introspection turns me to another direction.

The term “teflon politician” is not my invention. It has been around, and is lately being attached to Bernie. I find the term usable here, so am borrowing it.

A friend who was a Bernie supporter has recently said on social media, that the reason Bernie ended up supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 election was that going against Hillary and in favour of Trump would have been political suicide.

Well, well – that comment started a chain of thoughts in my mind. I contemplated it over the next several hours, went to sleep on it, and while preparing some free range Cornish hen carcass along with some root vegetables for my wife to cook into a stew, I thought about it some more, and decided I should come out with a post about Bernie being a teflon politician that would not be good for USA. He would be popular among the lefties, just like Obama was. But he would be just as disastrous for USA and the world.

Political suicide ?

Bernie is supposed to have avoided this political suicide, by not going against Hillary and for Trump. If this is true, then, in my thinking – Bernie would even support the very devil, just to keep his political future alive. USA can go to hell.

But hang on. Bernie did not need to support Trump. He could stand as an independent candidate and worked to splinter the Democratic Party as well as Hillary by taking voters away from them. Even if that resulted in Trump winning, it would have likely forced the Democrats to clean up their act and stop rigging the convention.

Most importantly, Bernie stabbed his own support base and voters, by supporting Hillary Clinton. This to me proves, voters are a mere temporary necessity for Bernie. He is essentially here for himself, and not for the voters and nor for the nation.

Consider in contrast – the case of Tulsi Gabbard. She resigned her high ranking chair in the Democratic Party early on, in order to support Bernie Sanders and go against the nomination of Hillary Clinton. She committed the same “political suicide” that my friend was talking about. Contrary to Bernie, Tulsi was willing to face potential political suicide, in order to support what she felt was the best for the nation.

See the contrast? Well, I do not suppose people would see the contrast, because many folks have hard wired views and would ignore evidence that do not tally with those views.

His rubbish comments about Russia is an exasperating example of how he has been, or became, a teflon politician. His duplicity with regard to Russia meddling in US elections is beyond dishonest. USA has a million times more funds and arsenals to interfere in other nations elections. USA has a million fold more solid examples of not only interfering, but actually toppling legitimate elected governments in endless list of countries. Post Soviet Russia has done none of that, and Bernie Sanders, the two faced liar – gives in to the propaganda, and blasts Russia – just to steal your vote.

If he had an ounce of honesty, he should have pledged that, as a president, he would stop once and for all, any and all US meddling in other nations elections, governments and policies. I am flabbergasted that Bernie Sanders fans fall for this kind of dishonest double talk.

Bernie Sanders voted in the senate, to uphold the impeachment because he though Trump abused his power but Joe Biden and his son did not. Without going into the details, that logic itself absolutely stinks. I have sufficient reason to believe that Bernie Sanders voted against Trump in the impeachment travesty, only because he wanted to enhance his own political future, and disregarded all other consequences including the fact that this act is not going to be forgotten nor forgiven, by the right of centre, Republican leaning voter base, and the fact that the impeachment was a sham act. There are dozens of real cases for which Trump could be impeached, but then in all those cases, many more Democrats too would fall prey.

More I think about all this, more I get convinced that I was wrong four years ago to think Bernie Sanders was the best candidate to lead USA. He is just a slippery guy with some charm, not unlike Barak Obama and in many ways, not unlike Hillary Clinton either. All in all, he is one more candidate that promises to be worse than previous presidents on a continual downward slide.

Bernie voted for all the wrong things, despite talking to the public in a way you would think otherwise.

His refusal to come clean on pardoning Julian Assange is, in my view, the deal breaker here, the last straw on the overloaded camel.

And then there is this shameful stand of supporting forced vaccination on people, to toe the line for big pharma and ensuring the citizens get sicker and sicker !!

He is an example of a teflon Candidate. And I am not surprised that the pseudo-liberals cannot see through all this. That is why they are pseudo-liberals.

In my second book, which is in the making, I am contemplating including these long posts as sub-chapters, explaining why the world gets to be as shitty as it is. Bernie is not at fault here. Neither are Trump, Obama or Hillary.

At fault are the citizens of the world. They suck. Its all related to that dead-fish thing.

About glyphosate – God helps those that help themselves

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First there was this famous court case of Mr. Dewayne Johnson versus Monsanto, that ended in a historically significant first of its kind verdict in favour of Johnson, declaring Monsanto’s weed killer with glyphosate to be potentially hazardous to human health and that Monsanto had knowingly hidden the potential danger from its literature, thus failing to alert the user sufficiently, which in turn resulted in Johnson getting terminally ill with cancer.

And now, there is this second case, of Wade versus Monsanto, for pretty much similar issues. Monsanto’s efforts to have the case summarily dismissed has failed. Further, Monsanto’s efforts to block the details of the soon to be started proceedings from being broadcast to the public has also failed. Barring specific items that should not be broadcast, such as jury selection, the entire court proceedings may be preserved through audio and video recordings, for broadcast to the public.

These open the floodgates for all other patients that believe they contracted their illness from glyphosate, due to the maker hiding the danger inherent in products that use glyphosate, either from Monsanto, or any other vendor.

All this however, leaves a very big question unanswered, in my mind. The job of most product manufacturer has been to highlight good sides of their product and downplay potential questionable sides. The job of exposing the potential undesirable effects, and of judging if the product is safe enough for public release, is that of the Government, and not of the product manufacturer. IN the case of USA, that job belongs to the Environment Protection Agency, or EPA in short.

I believe EPA is extremely corrupt and regularly fails to raise the alarm adn block approval of dangly unfit products such as Monsanto’s weed killer. I believe EPA is the first candidate that deserves to be sued by the people. I believe the very approval of any biocide made with glyphosate needs to be overturned. I believe EPA should be stripped of its responsibility in approving pesticides because it is unfit to carry out its job.

I also believe the above paragraph is likely a fools dream that is not going to bear fruit because, to make it happen, the people of the US will have to turn its focus away from rogue corporations such as Monsanto, and refocus on rogue government agencies such as EPA.

Not only that, the people will have to understand that this is not a Democrat versus Republican issue, and that a vast majority of their House representatives and Senators are on the take from the industry. The industry effectively controls all three branches of the Government today – the Executive, the Legislative as well as the Judiciary all the way to the Supreme Court. Legal victories such as Dewayne Johnsons are a drop in the bucket, more an exception that proves the rule.

Meanwhile in Canada, there are also looming class action lawsuits against Monsanto/Bayer, and also, more hopefully, against Health Canada, the EPA equivalent arm of the US Government in approval of pesticides containing biocides such as glyphosate.

Mary Lou McDonald’s court challenge through her NGO Safe Food Matters, against Health Canada, therefore, is a more important aspect of the legal challenge focussed correctly, against the government regarding wrongful steps taken in approval of glyphosate.

As long as the people of the US fail to do their primary task, as long as they continue to waste their time, money and focus on effort to find a saviour such as Vandana Shiva, Jeffry Smith, Robert Kennedy Jr, or even Jesus Christ or Budhha, the status quo will continue. The only way to save the country is for each and every one to stop looking for some one else’s shoulder to fire from, and to step up to the plate and do what each can do within his or her capacity, to resist the degradation of their democratic system. To believe that someone else will fight your battle, is why the situation has gotten as shitty as it is now, and trust me, it is going to get much worse.

Borrowing another phrase from the Missionary priests, athough I am a Hindu born atheist – God helps those that help themselves.

Borrowing and tweaking a quote from John Kenney, I would day – ask not what heroes and heroines, such as Vandana Shiva, or Robert Kennedy, or Jeffrey Smith or anybody else, even Micky Mouse, can do to fight not just glyphosate, but the degradation of your democratic system that puts you in this distress. Ask instead what you can do yourself, without their or anybody else’s help, within your own capacity, to resist this attack on your citizen’s rights.

People do not need to be groupies to hang around other famous folks. People do not need to do oohs and aah about someone else that talks about or does something about fighting the system. If they deserve your admiration and respect, then show it by doing something like them yourself. Be an activist, not a wallflower.

Your first task is to fight for these institutions, which is to ensure you have clean and uncorrupted legislature, clean Judiciary and clean White House. Otherwise your country will be flushed down the toilet. And the US will take much of the rest of the planet along with it as it goes down the tube.