Bernie Throws a Bomb

Bernie Sanders, NYC Rally:

" I want you all to take a look around and find someone you don’t know, maybe somebody who doesn’t look kind of like you, who might be of a different religion, maybe who come from a different country… My question now to you, is are you willing to fight for that person who you don’t even know as much as you’re willing to fight for yourself? Are you willing to stand together and fight for those people who are struggling economically in this country? Are you willing to fight for young people drowning in student debt, even if you are not? Are you willing to fight to ensure that every American has health care as a human right, even if you have good health care? Are you willing to fight for frightened immigrant neighbors, even if you are native born? Are you willing to fight for a future for generations of people who have not yet even been born, but are entitled to live on a planet that is healthy and habitable? Because if you are willing to do that, if you are willing to fight for a government of compassion and justice and decency, if you are willing to stand up to Trump’s desire to divide us up, if you are prepared to stand up to the greed and corruption of the corporate elite, if you and millions of others are prepared to do that, there is no doubt in my mind that not only will we win this election, but together we will transform this country."

If the video doesn't work, this link should go right to the relevant spot of 2:31:09


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYDD2Om3Hr8&feature=youtu.be&t=9069

This election will be a verdict on the metaphysic that guides this nation.
Are Americans nominalists, believing that only particulars are real, making real relationships impossible, and entailing increasing individualism and selfishness?
Or are we metaphysical realists, believing that particulars uniquely image and participate in universals, so that "no man is an island," but is instead connected to others, so that we should work toward the common good?

Bernie Sanders is a metaphysical realist. Choose this day which position is nearer to what is true, good and beautiful. G.K. Chesterton wrote in The Illustrated London News in 1924,

  “But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths of semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.”

As Richard Weaver observed half a century ago, "Ideas have consequences." The men holding rallies are also throwing bombs. I hope Bernie's ideas blow up everything His Stable Genius of Unmatched Wisdom stands for, and has done.