I couldn’t disagree more.

Despite the experienced and accomplished “compromisers” that cycle in and out of the D.C. crackhouse, we never see “real change.” When one cancerous arm reaches across the aisle to “compromise” with another cancerous arm, Americans don’t benefit. We never have. If “compromising” actually worked, Obama’s presidency wouldn’t have been such a train wreck. His ACA destroyed my health care coverage, and his foreign policy was a de-tread of GWB’s.

It’s time to face facts: we can’t effect “real change” in a toxic system. We need chemotherapy. We need to kill the cells that have “compromised” our country’s health.

Can Bernie accomplish “real change” on his own? Probably not. But let’s also be honest about the real change we can expect, given where we are now. At this point, I would die to have a Commander-in-Chief who doesn’t gaslight me on a daily basis and who has the stones to open a dialogue about the real issues we’re dealing with — and their root causes. I would die to have a Commander-in-Chief who isn’t on the payroll of the oligarchy.

You might underestimate the value of that kind of change, but I promise you, it would ignite something very powerful in all of us. We’ve been silenced for far too long, cowering without a voice, beholden to “viable” candidates who do the bidding of their masters while quietly f**king us when they aren’t pandering for our votes every four years.

As for the sin of being socialist: I’m a capitalist, through and through. But I’d rather live with Bernie’s brand of democratic socialism than continue to suffer under the bastardized corporate welfare system we have now.

I read this yesterday in USA Today. It perfectly captures why more people simply don’t give a crap about “ism” labels anymore:

“It’s true that at one point calling yourself a “democratic socialist” would be a bridge too far for many voters, including Democrats. But that was before people began to realize how unmoored the American capitalist system is from any sense of ethics or morality. The level of economic inequality and suffering from lack of affordable health care, crushing debt, and a discriminatory and racist for-profit incarceration system in one of the world’s wealthiest countries is astonishing. People are exhausted from working non-stop trying to just survive financially in a system that dangles the carrot of financial stability or wealth always slightly out of reach except for a favored few. Nothing about this is normal and that is fundamentally Bernie Sanders’ so-called “radical” argument.