People who wonder

I have friends, it should
probably be said at this
point, who get in touch to
say, What is this thing a-
bout Sanders?

It hasn't anything to do
with Sanders. It has to do
with his rising to the de-
mands of contemporary time,
to make himself available,
for people to be democrats.

This could have gone a

different way, as we've

seen, across the aisle:

the single aisle, we all

walk, on axis to the bal-

lot box. This could have

gone in the streets, as

no one needs to warn us.

But Sanders came along at

a moment when democrats

seemed ripe to be harvest-

ed as pawns, driven by a

pervasive, angry blackmail

in our time; and utilized,

at long last, to redeem a

legacy stunted by success.

He said, The way is open,

and whose fault is it, he

was the only one?

Now the parterre, most a-

ligned with the spirit of

the time, resounds chaotic

in the frolic of its heirs.

ii    Minor White
       Man with flag
       undated

iii   Sabine Weiss
       Jardin de Tuileries
       1952