Time Magazine ‘Person of the Year’ Snubs Bernie Sanders For Donald Trump
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Fight back against the injustice of Time Magazine omitting the great champion of economic justice from its list of finalists for person of the year by launching a tidal wave of social media and grassroots-driven small donations to the Sanders campaign.
I have no problem with Time Magazine putting Mr. Trump on its list of finalists for person of the year. The person of the year is not based on who we agree with, or disagree with, but on who has had the most influence. There is no doubt Mr. Trump earned his place as a person of great influence. In fact, he has had more influence on the Republican Party than any other Republican, and whether we agree with his views or not he has earned a place on the list of finalists for that reason alone.
I do have a huge problem with Time Magazine editors including Mr. Trump while rejecting Mr. Sanders—who has had more influence than any other candidate on the direction of the Democratic Party. Whether a Democrat supports Hillary Clinton or Mr. Sanders, he has been the candidate driving the debate, and she has been the candidate reacting to his leadership on one great progressive issue after another, time after time, day after day, week after week, month after month.
In a recent column I argued with supporting data that Bernie Sanders can fairly stake a claim to being the most electable candidate for president in either party. I cited polling that supports his right to make this claim, which suggests that in the eyes of voters Mr. Sanders is more electable than Ms. Clinton, Mr. Trump, Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz.
http://observer.com/2015/12/time-magazine-person-of-the-year-snubs-bernie-sanders-for-donald-trump/
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THAT is how much they are in the tank for Hillary. 
Yeah, right, the MSM hates Clinton and LOVES Sanders.
So Sanders wins the poll but is not even included in the final eight?
Well a Trump victory of Clinton in the GE will sell a lot of ad copy that is for sure! And wow, President Trump will be a hoot for the next 4 to 8 years. 
I'm going to go feed feral cats in my backyard 
. . .is the criteria Time Magazine has for it's POTY.
A better title for Person of the Year would be Newsmaker of the Year. This person is supposed to be, in Time's editors' judgment, the person who most shaped world events during the previous twelve months. Time received a barrage of angy letters for naming Hitler the Man of the Year in 1938. However, a look at Time's cover for its edition of Januasry 2, 1939, shows the mood in which Time gave him the title.
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When one is named the local Rotary Club's man of the year, it's an honor; when Time names one Person of the Year, it isn't necessary an honor.
I think Bernie Sanders should be among the finalists. I'd probably put him in place of Caitlyn Jenner, whose story may go beyond one of celebrity, but in the end it really about her celebrity more than it is about transgenderism. Travis Kalanick is another dubious pick for the short list. By making Uber's drivers "independent contractors" rather than employees, he may have found a way to save on labor costs but may have doomed his enterprise with the questionable legality of the scheme. They may as well have put Martin Shkrelli on their short list for his scheme to rocket the price of pyrimethamine into orbit, only to events overtake him and leave him eating his shoes.
Angela Merkel would be a good choice. It's isn't because I view her positively, because I don't. She has been at the center of the corporatist (anti-humanist) movement to impose austerity on the Greek people. She is exacerbating the problem in Europe that Bernie seeks to address in America. It would be another example of giving the Person of the Year award without considering it an honor..
It might also be justified to give Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump the award jointly. Together, they indicate how American politics have crushed American society. We are witnessing a phenomenon similar to Germany's slide in the late twenties and early thirties, when social unrest and economic pressure on the middle class destroyed the political center. That resulted in a street battle between more hard line socialists than the social democrats who dominated electoral politics in Germany after the end of World War I and far right militias, notably the Nazi's SA. In my view, Bernie represents our hopes and Trump our nightmares while Mrs,. Clinton represents the centrist policies that have destroyed the American middle class since 1981 and, even though she is the most likely next president, she is largely irrelevant (note she is not on the short list) and being elected president won't make her any more relevant than she is now; a joint award between a presidential candidate who wants to break up the big banks and another who blames immigrants and the poor and uses his own supporters literally as if they're stormtroopers would be acknowledgment that America, as Germany did before Hitler came to power, has serious problems that the elite don't want even to acknowledge, let alone address. Of course, Time is part of the establishment, so that's not going to happen.
Tho other picks are good ones and a case could be made for each of them. Of these, I tend to like the BLM activists as most deserving of the title, but I;d like to see if the movement is still around into 2017. I hope they are, and if they are we may look back and think, "Gee, Time had them on their short list for Person of the Year in 2015 and they would have been better pick than -- who won it anyway?" However, naming BLM would take more foresight than most of us have.
However, Senator Bernie Sanders has a good case for being name Person of the Year in his own right. Senator Sanders has changed the way we think about politics in America. He is an avowed socialist running for the Democratic Party's nomination for President. While his opponents are trying to paint him as Stalin or Mao, but most of us know that the Senator socialism is more like Clement Attlee or Olaf Palme. It's simply a socialism that puts the welfare of common people first and as long as private business doesn't too big for its britches, as it is now, it is permitted to exist. In any case, when was the last time an avowed socialist ran for the nomination of a major American political party?
Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
