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Suspicious Dreams Noga Sklar The other day, a dear friend told me, sounding very excited, that she had attended a thought-provoking fundraising to support the candidacy of Democrat Bernie Sanders for President of the United States. “You would have loved it,” she wrote me. “If we succeed, we will go to Washington D.C., imagine that.” She was right. As much as I try to deny it, I have seen and understood over the years that I am indeed a political animal. And Sanders, a former hippie and left-wing activist, would be, in theory, one of those subjects who grew up with the ideals that we used to cherish in our days of youth, an extra chance to contradict John Lennon proving that “the dream is not over,” if you know what I mean, a tiny chance similar to the one that, in my opinion, Obama tragically wasted, with his platform of unity and change, which only resulted in a division that seems increasingly fierce. But I could be wrong. The problem is that my friend was also wrong, and I wouldn’t have enjoyed that event at all. Moreover, I am opposed to this whole speech that Bernie Sanders intends to keep alive, even though, deep down at the bottom, I see him as a less harmful alternative to “Hurricane Hillary” — don’t ask me where I got this metaphor from, because I don’t know, all I know is that it came to my mind and I accepted it. I must confess. …show more content…

The only way out of this situation is to limit ourselves to our own ability to dream, to realize our private dreams; and that would not include by any means the global decisions about security, terrorism, economy and the constitutional right to the pursuit of happiness, something that John Lennon (I checked a few moments back) describes very well in his verses, take a peak: “I just believe in me, Yoko and me, and that’s reality,” the very same reality that took it all away from him a short time later. Likewise, I just believe in me, Alan and me, and that’s

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