Bernie Lights Fire of Door's Drummer

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Bernie Sanders Live! FDR/Redux
01/25/2016 08:09 am ET | Updated Jan 25, 2016

John Densmore
Founding member of The Doors

An edited version of this post, "Bernie Lights Fire of Door's Drummer," appeared in the Des Moines Register on January 22, 2016.

This wasn't an acid flashback, although to my ears it sounded like one. Several months ago, I was with 27,000 people screaming for a disheveled 73-year-old Senator from Vermont. He didn't look like Mick Jagger. We were in the Los Angeles Sports Arena, where The Doors played in the 60's. I remember the mass adulation, but that was for our leading singer in leather pants. Well, hopefully it was for the music, too. Even though the white-haired politician has no colorful wardrobe, after he speaks... you want to hug him. Why? Because what Bernie Sanders says feels like the truth. The unbridled truth. And he says it LOUD. No mincing of words here...

Backstage I said to him, "It's so refreshing, almost shocking, to hear words that ring true from a politician! You're like the Pope! Excuse me for combining church and state, but both of you are saying things that the whole world knows is reality." That's why the mass appeal (no pun intended). I hope conservatives reading this get it, because "you know something is happening, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Republican."

Disappointed supporters of Elizabeth Warren, and the leaderless Occupy Movement, have the potential of filling the New Englander's ranks enormously. Let's not forget that just a couple years ago, in thousands of cities, across 82 countries, on every continent except Antarctica, the mantra that 1% owns the 99% got embedded in the world's psyche. Six-hundred communities in the U.S. alone were expressing their anger about income inequality. Gosh, that's Bernie Sanders main theme. These folks didn't know they were just waiting for a shepherd to herd them back together.

P.S.

"Money is like fertilizer; when hoarded, it stinks. When spread around, stuff grows."