Green Mountain Socialist
Bernie’s from the city
But his fame came from Vermont.
Land of farms and verdant hills
All the ice cream you could want.
The people of that pristine state
Like to keep things small.
Chain stores are disfavored;
No billboards at all.
In light of this, it really shouldn’t
Come as a surprise
That Bernie’d break up the big banks.
They’re evil in his eyes.
He’s called upon the populace
To rise up and assist him.
The financiers are ready, too.
They’ll certainly resist him.
Can he prevail? I doubt it, too.
Beware the Golden Rule.
The odds are stacked against him
But Bernie’s not a fool.
Two additional observations:
- Sanders isn’t really a socialist. A socialist would want to nationalize the banks, not break them up.
- You can think of Vermont as the anti-Texas (both of them were independent republics at one time, but Texas is about change and being big, and Vermont is about preserving an idealized polity of small farms) or the American Switzerland.