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As I alluded to over on the Porch yesterday, a good deal of the 60s protest songs are far more applicable now to the omnipotence of those in power, who happen to be the far-left secular progressives, than they ever were to the perceived oppression of the Vietnam-era hippies.  I submit to you lyrics from Jonathan Edwards' 1971 hit "Sunshine":

He can't even run his own life,
I'll be damned if he'll run mine–sunshine

Sunshine, go away today, I don't feel much like dancing
Some man's come he's trying to run my life, don't know what he's asking
Working starts to make me wonder where fruits of what I do are going
When he says in love and war all is fair, he's got cards he ain't showing

Kevin Jackson over at TheBlackSphere presents us with Bernie Sanders, quintessential socialist.  And, being a resident of the People's Democratic Soviet Socialist Republic of Vermont (PDSSRV), I can tell you that what Kevin asserts is pretty well known.  He cites an Investor's Business Daily article which states, 

Sanders spent most of his life as an angry radical and agitator who never accomplished much of anything. And yet now he thinks he deserves the power to run your life and your finances — “We will raise taxes;” he confirmed Monday, “yes, we will.”

One of his first jobs was registering people for food stamps, and it was all downhill from there.

Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. “He was a shi**y carpenter,” a friend told Politico Magazine. “His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t.”

Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about “masturbation and rape” and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was “always poor” and his “electricity was turned off a lot.” They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment — and this is what his friends had to say about him.

The only thing he was good at was talking … non-stop … about socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off. “The whole quality of life in America is based on greed,” the bitter layabout said. “I believe in the redistribution of wealth in this nation.”

Go and read the whole article.  KJ has some cogent and witty commentary about The Bern, making the legitimate point that Bernie Sanders isn't really anything.    Which makes Jonathan Edwards so spot-on…