“A true statesman and a bold leader.”
It seems that everyone who has declared their candidacy for the presidential election of 2012 missed the implied irony in the title of the Talking Heads live performance movie, Stop Making Sense, preferring to take the title literally and hence to succumb to the ossifying effects of age, the drunken delirium of power, and the mental rot which comes from spending too much time preening for TV cameras and photo ops. Then again, the movie was made in 1984. Since then the entire political discourse has become such an Orwellian exercise, maybe spewing nonsense is “making sense”.
Occasionally, however, above the surrealistic din created by the so-called debates, the auditory Möbius strip of sound bites, the Third Reichian repetition of talking points, and the pig-ignorant, tabloid coverage of all of this by a media bent on feeding the sensory overloaded addictions of an exhausted and despondent public, yes, over the shrill chaos and poisonous cacophony rises a voice which reminds us of what it actually means to “make sense”.
Here is an article about what one such voice sounds like — what that voice is saying.
Senator Bernie Sanders has stature, integrity, passion and speaks directly to the issues out of conviction. He is not owned by anyone, therefore is able to think and communicate for himself. He is only national political figure who can pull America out of the quicksand.
The honorable Mr. Sanders says he is finally interested in running for president.
Maybe there is still some shred of hope in electoral politics after all.
