Dick Van Dyke, Public Enemy, Sarah Silverman to Headline Bernie Sanders Rally in L.A.

Public Enemy is about right.

Going to be honest...I'm not even a little bit surprised.

What follows, is a "rant" I don't think your were fishing for, Jack, but I've been looking for the right venue for it...and this is it.

Folks, this isn't 1968. I know many wonderful people who came of age during the "Summer of Love" and the Civil Rights Movement, who equate the Democratic Party with racial equality, economic fairness, compassion, and environmental responsibility. I also know a handful of good people of a "certain age", who genuinely believe the U.S. was a "better" place under their remembered version of Segregation. I would imagine Dick's support comes more from this perspective, than the one I have and will now share.

I would love to be a "Liberal". As a Christian, and a human being, coming from very "Blue Collar" roots...I'm none too impressed with the Corporate model of economics, the Military Industrial Complex, or the notion that turning America into one giant gated community or industrial park is a "good" thing. However, for the very same reasons...I cannot support the modern Democratic Party in even the slightest way. What I see are not "champions of human rights"...but perversely driven "social engineers" attempting to neuter the populace, enforce institutional atheism, and obliterate the Middle Class. I don't see the work of Martin Luther King, or hear the strains of John Denver...Rather, I see shades of Lenin, and hear the drumbeat of vengeance.

So, I'll vote for Republicans because at least I know that all they want is what they arguably already have. If I were to be even more blunt, I don't think it matters all that much anymore, anyway. Five years from now, no matter what, we'll be talking about someone new. Both sides are struggling to create "dynasties" of ideological alignment that will keep their chosen policies in place not for the terms of the Presidency...but across generations. Everything...and I mean EVERYTHING that's being proposed, by either party, seems destined for societal collapse at some point. The vision of what the United States was supposed to be, and possibly was at one point, has been lost. We have no common values, no unified morality, no combined purpose. One half of the nation is fighting for sweeping change based on on largely false assumptions...the other is fighting to preserve a status quo they often seem to not fully understand.