How do you spell sincerity? B_E_R_N_I_E!!

"We the constituents of the United States are too smart to be smarted by the establishment elites!!"

(D)ude: Man! The amygdala and the prefrontal cortex, both located in specific areas of the human brain, are compromised in mothers facing poverty. The effects on a baby are devastating. According to the director at the University of Denver’s Family and Child Neuroscience Lab, Dr. Pilyoung Kim, the emotional connection between mother and baby is essential and a chemically induced response that can be altered by chronic stressors such as poverty.

(M)an: Dude! A briefing by the Urban Institute in June 2010 actually broke down the statistics regarding Childhood Poverty Persistence and found the following,

“Over the past four decades [1970 to 2010] the U.S. poverty rate has fluctuated between 15 and 23 percent, but far more children—37 percent—live in poverty at some point in their childhoods. Racial disparities are large. Compared with white children, black children are substantially more likely to experience poverty and spend multiple years living in poverty.

Specifically, 31 percent of white children and 69 percent of black children who are poor at birth go on to spend at least half their childhoods living in poverty.

Children who are born into poverty and spend multiple years living in poor families have worse adult outcomes than their counterparts in higher-income families.

Focusing resources on children born into poverty and their families targets a particularly vulnerable population.”

D: Man! Yes, according to Dr. Pilyoung Kim at the University of Denver, the amygdala picks up on threatening signals and heightens our alertness, while the prefrontal cortex calms us down by balancing the heightened alertness with self-awareness and decision making capability.

M: Dude! But in mothers who are facing trying circumstances and continually high levels of anxiety, hence stress, the ability for the prefrontal cortex to release hormones to calm the overactive amygdala is reduced?

D: Man! Yes! Prolonged anxiety and stress can ruin the ability of the prefrontal cortex to calm the amygdala down. Post partum depression too can ruin this mechanism and cause a new mother to not bond healthily to her baby. And, keep in mind too, the mother’s brain experiences natural growth and rewiring upon the birth of her newborn, but that too can become troubled.

M: Dude! The bonding between the mother and newborn becomes troubled with either too much stress or circumstances that are not conducive to healthy brain growth and rewiring, which occurs naturally in all mothers upon the birth of their newborns?

D: Man! The mechanisms are hindered with too much stress and unstable conditions! That’s why treatment and interventions are so critical for new mothers facing poverty and their newborns!

M: Dude! The Childhood Poverty Persistence briefing from June 2010, by the Urban Institute, recommends timely treatment and interventions too! It concludes with this,

“Programs targeted at increasing parental income, such as education and training programs and work supports, could improve children’s future prospects by providing the family with economic security and stability.  Greater resources may also increase how much parents invest in their children. Other supports for parents, such as home visiting programs, may improve family functioning and the home environment of vulnerable children.

The fact that many families are able to lift themselves out of poverty in some years suggests that programs and policies that support work (e.g., child care subsidies, transportation assistance, expanded paid leave policies) may help parents, and therefore their children, improve their economic standing and stability. Beyond this, programs that focus on job retention, job advancement, and skills training could help protect families during weak economic times, since low-skill jobs are often the first to be eliminated.

Some children appear resilient to childhood poverty and are able to avoid negative outcomes. Understanding the characteristics and experiences of persistently poor children who successfully transition to adulthood would provide important information about what persistently poor children need and what can help them become successful adults. As it stands, however, too few children born into poverty manage to escape its ill effects, and more can be done to both lift children and their families out of poverty today and to help poor children achieve better outcomes as adults.”

D: Man! What about President Bill Clinton’s record on implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994 and then, two years later, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996? How can we be sure that as our president, Hillary Rodham Clinton will not tear apart the Trans Pacific Partnership’s humanity and provisions to correct past trade agreement shortfalls or shortcomings, and be harassed into signing severer welfare reform legislation that would chastise the poor with the Republican House of Representatives and Republican Senate right now?

M: Dude! That’s the same concern I’ve got regarding candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton!    

D: Man! Fortunately, there’s candidate Bernie Sanders! We can resolve to feel the Bern instead of electing Hillary Rodham Clinton as the Democratic nominee for the 2016 presidential election! Bernie Sanders is the better candidate and the better human being. The revolution began in Iowa when Bernie won 21 delegates and continues this week in New Hampshire as
Bernie advances forth with our dreams and the daring vision of a government for the people, not big businesses and their heavily moneyed executives who are rigging the economy and keeping US from ever competing with them and preserving the middle class.

M: Dude! Our sons and daughters in uniform could easily formulate business models far stronger than these billionaires rigging the system today! And our working and middle classes could drive our economy much further than the establishment elites, which include the Clintons and their billion-dollar foundation.

D: Man! Did you notice how the Clintons left Iowa as establishment elites, bailing out of the celebrations after Hillary addressed the crowd briefly at the podium? And have you noticed how their billion-dollar charity enterprise is only a way to cement their formidableness amongst the establishment elites, including their friends the Bushes? Doesn’t anyone ever notice the way the Clintons and the Bushes physically and verbally mock their audiences?

M: Dude! The literal tongue in cheek mechanism that Bill Clinton employs too much as he stumps for Hillary, as he did in Nashua, New Hampshire yesterday morning? You know, Joe Scarborough also smacks his tongue against the side of his cheek like Bill Clinton when he’s not telling the truth and lying on behalf of the American Republican Party!

D: Man! We have to remember that the Clintons comprise only a small but significant percentage in the Democratic Party. There are the decent and goodhearted Democrats, like Iowa Senator Tom Harkin and New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan, who cringe at the Clintons’ presumptuousness to mock and take flighty ego trips instead of making policy work for the poor, working and middle classes.

M: Dude! But we the constituents are too smart to be smarted by the establishment elites like the presidential Clintons and Bushes. We are the wise revolutionaries, versus they the shortsighted powers that be. You know, George Walker Bush’s Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 reauthorized the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families that became effective during Bill Clinton’s second term?

D: Man! The Clintons will argue that Bill vetoed welfare reform twice, and by doing so kept the United States Congress from implementing worse provisions in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996.

M: Dude! It was an election year, therefore Bill Clinton decided not to contest the legislation regarding welfare reform in the United States with the Republican Majority in Congress! That’s the reason for Clinton not vetoing welfare reform a third time. But the repercussions for mothers and children living in poverty were severe, with the states being given more leniency in how they distributed and restricted services. Remember, Ronald Reagan set in motion the criticism against deficit spending, the opposite term being budget surplus and the desirability of which expanded through the Reagan presidency as well as Herbert Walker Bush’s four years as commander in chief. Are you following?

D: Man! The financial market is tied too desperately to the fossil fuel industry! If we can evolve into a clean energy industry, then the issue of frictional and structural unemployment—deciding whether folks are transitioning seasonally from one job to their next place of employment, or whether folks are suffering from a mismatch between their skills and what the current employment market is requiring of its employees—would not be so evident and hurtful to US because, by being the first to engage in this clean energy industry, the United States would not be just of the Americas, but of the world, our position as an interplanetary species on Planet Earth secured with the diplomatic efforts being made by our federal government at the moment, would propel homo sapiens into the next frontier, that being space travel.

M: Dude! You know, we age slower on Mars than on Earth?

D: Man! It’s the start of a new month, which reminds me to ask you whether you’ve contributed to Bernie Sanders’ campaign yet? I’ve decided to contribute $27.01 myself!

M: Dude! Larry David’s scheduled to host Saturday Night Live this Saturday! I hope to be introduced to Bernie’s administrative duties as our president throughout Larry David’s skits!

D: Man! Monday night, the revolutionaries won with Bernie’s breakout performance. Fortunately, the American Press Corps has caught up with feeling the Bern as a result by actually broadcasting his addresses to crowds of folks like us across New Hampshire! Did you catch Bernie addressing a crowd from a truck bed in the early hours of yesterday morning? Wow! That’s how a presidential candidate should embrace us! US! That there’s a winner! Bernie Sanders is of the people, by the people, and for the people!

M: Dude! How do you spell sincerity?

D: Man! B_E_R_N_I_E!!