Use Your Brain or Prove Jim, From “Blazing Saddles,” Right.

“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.” — Jim, Blazing Saddles (1974)

Eh, more like . . . “This is America.” But, really, it’s the same principle from different, not uncomplimentary angles.

In the first six-ish minutes of the Benjamin Dixon show, I found someone who — despite having differing philosophies and methodologies than mine . . . vastly different — has encapsulated my long, terribly difficult process to figure out where I land on any political spectrum.

In the first six minutes of the broadcast, this South Fulton, GA councilperson, Councilmember Khalid, sums it up perfectly, about why would Black voters trust a white man in Vermont when their own people (Black and Southern Black Democratic politicians) didn’t/wouldn’t help their own as they should?

His answer is that, to believe in a Bernie Sanders, one has to believe in government. And he clearly does.

This is where he and I differ: I do not believe in government. Not anymore. I don’t believe any form of government humanity has ever cobbled together thus far (or maybe ever will), will be…