Shit, can you imagine the memes we'd have got had it been Sanders v. Trump? "Doc Brown versus Biff Tannen" would have flooded the internet. The memewars would've been glorious.
Rethinking this in a more serious vein; I really do believe we need Outsider vs Outsider. I know that I, at least, have had half-again Enough of Uniparty-approved figureheads.
That's the problem with the "two"-party system: The illusion of a difference. The idea that choosing a Democrat In Good Standing is one iota different from choosing a Republican In Good Standing.
Those who pooh-pooh the idea that there is a Uniparty should remember that Kamala Harris had not a shred of compunction against cozying up to the Cheneys, nor they to her. The illusion of opposition, of any real difference, between them evaporated right then and there.
And lest we forget: Candidates, by and large, only make it to the general election by pleasing their respective National Committee and, of course, their donors. They do that by playing their part: safe, sanitized, inoffensive drones who will do what they're told -- as long as it's not what they're told by the voters.
Members of what Carlin called the "big fuckin' club" -- that we ain't in.
And here come guys like Sanders and Trump. They're not part of that Big Fuckin' Club, either (granted, they're part of other, equally-inaccessible-to-John-and-Jane-Doe social circles.) -- Sanders had the Dems scrambling for their collective pocketbook to buy him off.
They couldn't do that with Trump; he threatened to wrap a li'l baby-fist around that Big Fuckin' Club and smash up the store with it; which has occasioned an eight year running tantrum, from the system itself and from those who have been indoctrinated to worship and defend it.
It would be my fondest delight to see that system rent asunder by an Outsider versus Outsider contest so that, no matter how loud the Uniparty squeals and no matter how far they dig into their shit-encrusted bag of tricks, they lose.
