Bernie Sanders. Vermont Senator. Trump critic. Disdainer of
capitalism. Socialist millionaire.
When Colonel
Senator Sanders recently opined that his tax returns would be “a little more
boring” than President Trump’s, a reporter gently reminded him of his own
substantial wealth. This caused Bernie to retort, “I
wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a
millionaire, too.”
Bernie’s
books “Our Revolution” and “Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution”
(shouldn’t there be an apostrophe in that title?) combined to earn the senator
more than one million dollars in 2017 alone. He appears to be a one-trick pony.
What will he title his next book, “You Say You Want A Revolution?” Or perhaps
“Revolutions For Dummies?”
Sanders
has been the target of some criticism lately for not having released his tax
returns, even as his Democratic colleagues have pulled out all the stops
attempting to force President Trump to release his tax returns. Sanders has said that he will release his returns
soon, adding: “I hope that Donald Trump will do exactly the same. We are going
to release 10 years of our tax returns, and we hope that on that day Donald
Trump will do the same.” That statement gives a person a good idea how exciting
his books are to read. How exciting his books are to read. Repetitive and
ponderous is more like it.
Sorry,
Bernie, but you didn’t become a best-selling author because of your
scintillating prose. People don’t buy your books because of your extraordinary
writing talent and fresh, vibrant style. They purchase them because you are a
long-time politician, a senator in the public’s eye, an inveterate gas-bag
living and working among the coastal elite who is running—again—for president
of the United States of America. As Tricky Dick used to say, let’s make one
thing perfectly clear: it is precisely your
privileged position, not your effulgence or literary lucidity that leads
folks to read your published twaddle.
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