The Biggest Big Lie

The biggest Big Lie in this campaign is that Bernie Sanders supporters, male, female, LGBT and Q (and, presumably, all others who don’t back the former First Lady) are somehow anti-feminist.

I was about to say “I don’t know how self-serving political lies like this get started...” but as soon as I felt myself actually begin to wrap thoughts around those words, I realized they were intended for rhetorical purposes only, since they weren’t even true, because I certainly do know how they get started. And so, probably, do you.

Big Lies aren't that much different than little lies, and both kinds get started because somebody makes them up. 

Then some semi-skilled pressroom hack (or intern) copies-and-pastes them into daily talking point memos for candidates and surrogates, who amplify the lie and spin it to suit their particular audiences or constituencies.

Then it morphs into something even less real, until somebody — me, maybe, or you — finally stands up and says something like: 

Who made up this bullshit? It’s not even true!

That’s the conclusion I come to when I consider the anti-feminist lie, anyway. 

The 2016 Democratic Dream Team: List them on the ballot in any order, at all. They'll get my vote, either way.

Full disclosure: I’m a 65-year-old white male and I truly believe that my antipathy towards Hillary Clinton has nothing whatever to do with vestigial chauvinism in a capricious character or a battered, tattered soul.

Because I’d follow Elizabeth Warren into hell itself, if she led a charge there to free our “rigged economy” from its diabolical gatekeepers.

Conversely, though, to me, Hillary Clinton is hell — an inept, inauthentic political hack, using her own gender to distract from the insincerity, desperation, and duplicity at the core of her campaign and, seemingly, the depths of her political being.

How long can she go? Pretty fucking low, as I recall from the 2008 campaign. 

HRC and Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland doing the same number on Obama then that she's doing on Bernie now.

I mean, I still hear echoes of her “Shame on you, Barack Obama” tirade come rolling through my head whenever she starts ragging on Bernie for actually believing what he's saying, all in that rushed, shrill, angry-mom tone, and I swear to God: I wish I'd never heard those words or that tone, and I can't wait until I never have to hear that woman's voice ever again.

I just don't like you, Hillary. I'm sorry. Maybe if you had a goal in life to do something, anything, other than to proclaim yourself the only qualified candidate in the country to be president, it would be different.

But if that were different, you’d be different, Hill. And that’s the problem: You just never are. 

America got tired of the same-old same-old because, among other things, it created the biggest levels of income inequality in 85 years. 

And the same-old same-old is all Hillary Clinton has ever been. She’s Hubert Humphrey in a pantsuit. And Bernie Sanders is the Bobby Kennedy a bullet didn't kill.