Sanders Fans Should Be (Quietly) Celebrating Coronavirus

But Not Spreading It

If the cure is worse than the disease, it’s because we were already sick

But first, let’s emphasize, repeatedly, this is NOT a call to spread the virus.

No revolution happens without suffering. Revolutions occur because there is suffering, but they cause it as well.

The hardest part about a revolution is the fact that nobody escapes. Many who may have been suffering a little over a long period of time will suffer a lot over a short period of time before it’s over. The revolutionary promises that things will be much better once it’s all over, but they cannot promise the cure will be painless.

For a long time, Bernie Sanders has been preaching a revolution. Among those who are alarmed by his sermon is the sense that Sanders wants to burn the whole thing down and start again. And among those people are others who fear what Sanders wants to build over the ruins is some kind of Communistic society modeled after the old Soviet Union.

Regardless of those fears, what appeals to Sanders’ supporters is the message that the existing system — which many of them, being young, will inherit — is fundamentally flawed. Seen from one angle, it’s a system that…