Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust
July 13, 2016
A pragmatist is the guy in front of the firing squad who asks for a blindfold.
Channel surfing last night I caught two political events on C-Span. On one channel I caught who I call "The Mad Queen" at her campaign event in New Hampshire. Standing behind her, looking like a total dope was "Feel the Bern," ready to tell the world how he was now endorsing her.
Wonder how many of those nice, decent young and old Bernie supporters felt like total dopes as well? After all, they know how much this woman is the antithesis of what they and their (once) fearless leader stand for. Well, let's say half of what he stands for.
You see, "Feel the Bern" had to run as a Democrat because he did what all of the other Democratic politicians are doing, which is to remain silent on our obscene foreign policy. More damaging than that to anyone who calls him or herself "progressive"' is to remain silent on the highest amount of military spending ever which is happening under Mr. Obama.
Surfing to the next C-Span channel I caught a live campaign event in Indiana for Il Duce With the Orange Comb over. Check out old film clips of Mussolini giving speeches and then watch Donald. Amazing the similarities... except of course the original Duce did not continually repeat statements one after the other like ours does.
Our Duce likes to strut around taking the bit from Teddy Roosevelt and rearranging it to say "Walk Loudly and carry a big stick." His asshole wall and his Islam phobia while promising to "Make Amerika better" seem to carry the day. What the working stiff dopes who support him do not realize is the jobs he intends to "Make Amerika better" will be more of the same dead end ones with bum paychecks... and most likely part time with no benefits.
We have become a nation that is more laughable than any Woody Allen satire. With a compliant sellout media in place 27/7, the suckers are fed this total "He said She said" garbage until the first week in November. Two super rich deviates, one a billionaire and one just a multi millionaire, are telling you to follow them to better days.
The skeletons and dirty laundry they both carry with them will "factor out" any total disgust by the majority of the electorate... while a more enlightened minority will see through the **** and vote Green Party or Libertarian or some other third-party alternative. Yet, all those wonderful pragmatists out there will continually tell us " Yours cannot win so why waste the vote?"
Borrowing from PT Barnum: A sucker is born... every four years!
(Philip A Farruggio is a semi-retired baby boomer born and bred in blue collar Brooklyn NYC. He is the son and grandson of Brooklyn longshoremen, and educated at "free tuition" Brooklyn College, class of '74. Philip has written more than 300 columns since 2001 and his work is found on many fine progressive sites like World News Trust, Nation of Change, Information Clearinghouse, Intrepid Report, Sleuth Journal, Dandelion Salad, Counterpunch and Dissident Voice. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)