Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "An International Embarrassment" video.

  1. It is difficult to imagine the positive value that having Bernie in the executive office would be when all is said and done. BUT I think they may be parallel to the value that Ralph Nader would have delivered had he made a successful bid. I firmly believe that had Nader been president we would never have been in either of the wars, and that we would not have had a great recession.  The banking corporate elite would have been reigned in before they expressed their real quality and worth as human beings (by driving the nation into financial ruin, and then with the bailout money, paying themselves huge bonuses -- in full view of the public eye -- which gives you a true idea of what they think of the power {and attention spans} of average Americans.) I can only feel that Bernie will do even better.  His refusal to run third party proved to me that he was an even better candidate than Ralph. There is a little ray of sunlight, and it is shining right on the linchpin that hold us all in thrall to a hideous machine of death, and the unavoidable self-destruction that a continuation of business-as-usual, represents. Though as unsexy and boring as the corporate owned media can make it, despite a spate of meaningless red herrings, the public is becoming aware that campaign finance reform is the ONLY issue that can effectively address the root of all problems, because it is the root of how, though unelected and beyond public scrutiny, the one percent continue to own and rule us, and profit by our misfortunes, which are of their knowing design. They rule a kingdom of financial coercion and outright violence, which is quickly becoming a police state. Register Democrat and vote for Bernie. That is the only election there will be in 16. Whoever wins the Democratic Primary will have to beat Bush and I think either of them can do that. But I believe that Hillary has a lot of grist for the republican Swift-Boat mill, that Bernie doesn't.  They will only have the fear they can inspire in those who are afraid to try something that is not self-victimizing.  Which the Republican are pretty good at.  There is no question, IMHO, that Bernie can beat any of the Republicans, but can he beat Hillary? If she were any kind of person she would either step aside or offer to run for vice-president.  She's smart, she must know that this is what would be best for the country.  But with Hillary, it's all about Hillary, and with Bernie, . . . eh, . . . not so much. If he doesn't win, it can only be chalked up to the partiality, ignorance, and underhandedness of the Democrat insiders themselves. Can we really afford to hand the bully-pulpit over to Goldman Sax and accomplices yet again, for another eight years?  Can civilization endure another decade of having banking criminals in control" They will pillage with glee, and take as much as you will let them steal.  All they need to do is change a law here and there, what's the problem, most of the Congressmen work for them. Nobody will even read it till long after it passes. If Bernie can win that is just the smallest ingress into a whole world of corruption and power.  It will be very much up to the rest of us to sustain an effort to bring the-long-view to a government that moves from crisis to crisis, and in which, though everyone is talking, only money is heard.
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