A MESSAGE TO BERNIE'S SUPPORTERS

You can't always get what you want

but if you try some time

you just might find

You get what you need.

the Ol'Buzzard

BERNIE YOU FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT, BUT...

The Democratic convention is over and except for outrageous things that Trump might say over the next three months, I am not interested; especially in the day to day, hour to hour pole numbers of the opinionated masses of people who believe the earth is six thousand years old, don’t believe in science, and have not a clue what they are opinionated about.

At my age I don’t want time to pass any faster, but I will be glad when the election is held and behind us.   This has gone on too long and I am saturated.

I do have a thought on Bernie Sanders.   I could have supported Sanders; but I thought he turned out to be a petulant old man – old man yells at clouds – at the end of the Democratic convention. 

The choice is either Trump or Hillary, and I thought his endorsement of Hillary was lukewarm.   He could have done a hell of a lot more to quell the dissenters at the beginning and during the convention.   To me, he actually seemed pleased that a hardcore following of his candidacy was vocal and disruptive.

Every time the camera went to him he looked like he had his ‘It should have been me’ face on. 

What a disappointment he turned out to be – at least for me.

the Ol’Buzzard     

THE IDEALISM OF YOUTH

After watching prerecorded programs to avoid the Democratic Convention, quite late last night my wife switched to MSNBC in time to catch Michelle Obama’s speech and Bernie’s closing.   After the closing, some of the Bernie supporters were interviewed, and there was a theme in common: they were young and they were idealist. 

It didn’t surprise me that Bernie’s young people all said they couldn’t vote for Hillary.  

We have all been there.   The world seemed so black and white and answers seemed so obvious when we were young adult.   

At that age the world is about you - it's for you.  You are in awe of how misguided older adults behave and how obtuse your parents are – and you are not going to be like them now that you’re are grown.

Young people haven’t yet realized that the world is not black and white but shades of grey.  They haven’t been knocked back by adult responsibilities. 

It is only after you find out that the thrill of relationships is short lived, that babies cry through the night, that baby shit is stinky mustard yellow, that money is required for housing, food, car payments, insurance, medical bills, clothing, and that that money doesn’t come from mom and dad - that you have to earn it.   It is only after you have been knocked back a few times that you have made your bones as an adult.

 

Don’t get me wrong; I am not decrying young adults.   The idealism of young has brought about great changes in society.  The generation of the sixties with drug, sex and rock and roll brought about positive social change, as did the young people that demonstrated and bled during the integration of the south.   If it weren’t for the idealism of youth, which makes them easily manipulated, there would be no cannon fodder for the military. 

So Bernie’s young people cried in the audience and they can’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary.   They don’t understand yet that the world does not rotate just for them, that what they want does not drive the universe.  They can't see past their own egotism that a no vote for Hilary is an own-goal for Donald Trump.   

That you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need.  

   

Not bad for seventy year old rock band musicians.

the Ol'Buzzard