I'd like to once and for all dispel this rumor that has permeated social media in the most irritating of ways: Bernie Sanders supporters, you are not part of a revolution. Take a seat. Sanders supporters--or more accurately, fanatics--are just as, if not more guilty of the same conceit that Trump supporters are; the conceit that their candidate is somehow a panacea for the country's innumerable ailments. They are so rapt by this notion that Sanders, their affable, white-haired knight is single-handedly ushering in a new era of American politics. That is as categorically false as it is hilarious.
It is exceedingly apparent that my generation, The Millennials, has completely forgotten that this country was founded on its amendable Constitution and system of checks and balances. That is all the more apparent by the systemic dismantling of our Constitution by the "tolerant" Left. As though it was not enough for the regressive left to impede speech and gun rights guaranteed by that fundamental piece of legislation, it is now their mission to dismantle the system of checks and balances implemented by the Founding Fathers in order to forever avert the very real threat of tyranny. The fact that it is not just Sanders, but, indeed, the entire Left that seeks this acquisition of power is clear by none other than President Obama's numerous executive orders issued in order to unilaterally push an unchecked and unapproved agenda. Sanders himself even said that he would use executive orders in order to push his immigration agenda. If you don't see any detriments that a Democrat issuing executive orders might pose, particularly as it pertains to immigration, I encourage you, the reader, to look up Executive Order 9066. It looks a little something like this:
That is why I find it so immensely ironic that Bernie fanatics push this notion of "democratic" socialism as though that exists. Such a thing might theoretically exist if we actually lived in a democracy, but, unfortunately, we don't. We live in a representative republic. This "democratic" system would only be privileged to those who hold elected office. If this entire millennium thus far has been any indication as to the efficacy of centralized power in this country, then giving the feds complete control of our economy should be the last thing we as a country should be resorting to. Therein lies the great contradiction that only Bernie fanatics have the myopia to miss: centralization is the antithesis of democracy.
Pointing any of this, however, to a Bernie fanatic leaves them confounded and incensed. Pointing out that the socialist systems of Denmark and Norway that they so vehemently cling to have proven to be fiscally ineffective and detrimental to their production proves fruitless in dissuasion. Take a .jpeg image the relative size of Denmark (let's say 640 x 480) and blow it up the the size of the United States of America (1600 x 1200). What happens to the image? It becomes distorted and looks like crap.
Just like Bernie Sanders' entire platform.
