( Deze brief werd op 1 november 2020 gepubliceerd op Medium ) Open (Final) Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders Dear Senator Sanders, Two days before your country’s already nerve-wracking presidential election, the day that Americans face the […]
Feeling the Bust – IV‑a/b IV‑a Take Bernie Sanders’s long lasting flirtation with Daniel Ortega in the ‘80s. Sanders was invited to the seventh anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution in Managua. By his own boasting account, he was […]
Feeling the Bust – I – II I The American political discourse won’t cease to surprise and offend us. Its rhetoric, the shamelessly showcased vanity, the blind hatred, blatant misogyny and racism, it seems all so much more exaggerated, […]
Something’s Berning – I Many of my friends ‘feel the Bern’. I don’t, but I don’t think one needs to feel much in order to observe politics. I’d prefer a rational approach over an emotional one. ‘But you have […]