Bernie 43% to Hillary 37% in New Hampshire

[Shepherd]

Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now" just reported that a new poll shows that in the first primary state, New Hampshire, Bernie has moved ahead with 43% to Hillary's 37%. This comes after nationally-covered speeches by Bernie in LA with nearly 30,000 people and thousands in Portland and elsewhere. We are experiencing the early stages of a mass movement to take back the power for the people in the U.S.

Bernie has stood by his stand not to criticize Hillary. In fact, he has called some of the criticism of her "sexist." Though he may not win in the end--though he might--he is shifting the national campaign to deal with real issues.

[comodin]

I heard one of Bernie's speeches a while back. It was a humdinger! He hit just about every salient point about illegitimate inequality. But in the speech I heard, he said not a word about the Federal Reserve. I hope this applies only to this speech, but in case it doesn't, in case he always omits this, then I think the following thoughts may be relevant:

By now, probably everyone has heard about Mayer Rothschild's boast — "give me control of a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws" — because this is the essence of the control the Fed has over us. I can't shake the thought that whoever says all the right things, the sort of thing that focus groups easily identify as magnetic issues of enormous concern, yet leaves the basic problem unresolved, might be yet another false promise of the ever-postponed dream of getting rid of these criminal parasites.

Not that this would be any reason not to vote for him, considering the alternatives offered to us. A lot like the Obama presidential campaign, in my view: present two rival candidates, only one of whom is feasible, who says everything the focus groups told him would appeal; he is elected, of course; then he fails to implement, or sometimes actually sabotages, many of the most important promises made. And by that time, there's nothing to be done about it, except to "petition the government for redress of grievances." You have to wonder what puppet master is behind this strategy, which is always the same.

My conclusion: vote for Bernie, hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and don't be devastated if he, too, fails us.