Bernie from Belarus

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Clarissa

May 18, 2016

This is an old Soviet joke.

Year 1980. A ragged old man walks out of a forest somewhere in the Soviet Republic of Belarus. He stealthily approaches a house on the outskirts of a village, catches a glimpse of a woman milking a cow in the yard, and whispers, “Sister, please, a glass of milk before the Nazis see me!”

“The Nazis?” the woman asks. “There are no Nazis. The war ended 35 years ago.”

“You don’t say!” the old guerrilla fighter exclaims. “And I’ve been blowing up trains and sabotaging railways this entire time!”

Like the old guerrilla fighter from Belarus who didn’t realize the war had ended, Bernie Sanders will continue campaigning into eternity. Decades will pass, the world will change, and he will still be running against Hillary.

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9 responses to “Bernie from Belarus”

Editor (Retired)

May 18, 2016

Hyperbole. Fanciful hyperbole, but hyperbole just the same. Bernie is no longer running against Hillary. He continues to run because he wants to change the Democratic Party. All are invited to look at the latest post on my blog.

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1. Clarissa
  
  May 18, 2016
  
  This was simply a joke. Let’s not take it too seriously.
  
  By the way, Belarusian and Ukrainian guerrillas won WWII, so I wouldn’t take a comparison with them all that negatively.
  
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Dreidel

May 18, 2016

Good for Bernie! I’ve always suspected that socialists and other lefty imbeciles were useful for something (I’m still not convinced)– but if that silly old man can keep plowing a ditch that derails Hillary’s coronation train, I’ll keep cheering his efforts.

Hillary is probably going to win in November– a Democratic sociopath with no principles beating a faux Republican sociopath with no principles– and that really doesn’t disturb me so much.

I’ve lived long enough to realize that the world is a gyroscope that keeps righting itself, no matter what political forces try to topple it. But if the choice is between two evils, both of whom want to lead the country into the wrong direction, why should I waste my vote on either one?

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Dreidel

May 18, 2016

Addendum:
Like Clarissa’s “Let’s not take it too seriously” comment above, I don’t mean to sound unduly grim. My “famous optimism” that she recently referred to is still intact, because I view the long term. This country is resilient enough to survive any single President, even an incompetent buffoon like Trump, or a “four more domestic years of Obama” party hack like Hillary, who at least will restore some sense to our disgraced foreign policy.

Whoever is elected, the U.S. will survive, and eventually sane people will regain control of both parties, and future historians will look back on the 2016 election as a minor aberration in the course of our stable democracy.

As Clarissa said in response to one of my posts last week, “things will be fine” — eventually.

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1. Clarissa
  
  May 18, 2016
  
  And that’s the Dreidel I know and appreciate. 🙂
  
  Even in Ukraine everything will eventually be fine. And here it is great already and will continue being great.
  
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J. Otto Pohl

May 18, 2016

Not sure where to put this. But, the Eurovision win of Jamala being so close t the 72nd anniversary of the deportation has pushed my rankings on academia.edu up to 0.5% due to hits on two papers.

https://ugh.academia.edu/OttoPohl

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1. Clarissa
  
  May 18, 2016
  
  That’s so cool! Wow! Very well-deserved, too.
  
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Hattie

May 18, 2016

Ha! Ha! Or like the Japanese holdouts on remote Pacific islands who were still fighting WW II years after it was over.
The 60s were some time ago, and his Bernie’s has nostalgia appeal for some, whereas a lot of the younger Bernie people imagine they are a revolutionary force. They have no idea.

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1. Clarissa
  
  May 18, 2016
  
  Agreed 100%.
  
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