In light of the democratic primary results, I would like someone ... anyone... to explain to me, in clear simple and direct language, How The f*ck can we expect to change anything if we cannot have our votes counted? I know I'm not high on anything ... so what is everybody else smoking? Why is The Biggest Story in American Politics NOT covered?
Hillary Clinton stole the Democratic nomination from Bernie Sanders.
The End.
The media are herding us down the chute mesmerizing us with, "Move along here folks ... nothing to see here ... Move On to the next story" And what's pissing me off is watching "liberal" media watchdogs like The Young Turks hustling us away from The Big Story (aka Hillary Stole the Nomination) to the second stage: We Must Vote Against The Crazy Person. And the arguments are mind-bending. I just finished watching The Young Turks' Hillary's Case On Foreign Policy: Warhawks Better Than Crazy Warhawks. Donald Trump, the war-mongering blowhard, is nuts. Hillary Clinton, a politician who never met a war she didn't like, is a more knowledgeable war-mongering blowhard. The choice is simple. Vote (there's that word again) for the more experienced but not-as-crazy-as-Trump warhawk.
Travel back in time with me to 1964.
Barry Goldwater was the Republican candidate for president. In May of that year he gave an interview in which he discussed the use of low-yield atomic bombs in North Vietnam to defoliate forests and destroy bridges, roads, and railroad lines bringing supplies from communist China. Goldwater was buried in the landslide election by the incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, who won 61 percent of the vote. Americans in 1964 overwhelmingly rejected the man who casually discussed using nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
The "sane" more "knowledgeable" choice, Lyndon Johnson, escalated the war in Vietnam which ultimately killed 3.4 million Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian people. Who was the greater monster -- Goldwater or Johnson? What gore-slicked yardstick do we use to measure their madness?
Back to the present ... almost.
George W. Bush was an illegitimate president. In the 2000 election, rigged voting machines, voter suppression, and ultimately The Supreme Court, nullified our votes and forced his presidency on America. In 2004 the Republicans stole the presidential election again but this time were skillful enough not to need an intervention by The Supreme Court. The bastard president got another four years, so we lived under an illegitimate president for eight goddam years. Fun, wasn't it?
And now we're all the way back to the present. Here we are counting down the days to the election. We didn't choose Hillary Clinton to run against Donald Trump. She cheated her way onto the ticket. She is, for the first time in my memory, an illegitimate candidate for president. We've just had a socio-political earthquake that destroyed the party of FDR, and the Ministry of Truth is trying to make us think that nothing extraordinary happened. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, Chocolate rations are up, and Hillary Clinton is the Democratic candidate for president.
I get it. Trump is a full blown fascist who could flip out his gold sharpie and sign enough Executive Orders, legally binding orders, that could transform The United States into a hell-hole for anyone not of the proper caste. Rich White Men would do extremely well, their middle manager minions wouldn't be so bad off, but for everybody else, especially for those with darker skins or a different religion, it would be Open Season. Women across the board will find the gains they've made over the last 50 years wiped out with a stroke of a pen. The rights of LGBTQ folk would be dependent upon the whim of a lunatic. I get it. Trump ... Bad.
On the other hand, Hillary Clinton is perfectly capable of continuing to act as she always has for decades. Regardless of the photo ops with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Clinton has bagged 48 million from hedge-fund managers for her campaign. As Secretary of State Clinton played a leading role in drafting the Trans-Pacific Partnership ... but now she says she's against it. She was pushing for NAFTA as First Lady ... but now she says she's against it. And of course she voted for the Iraq War ... but later she said she was against it. She supports godawful things until they're in place and then reverses her positions if it's politically expedient to do so. She was gung ho for the worst war crime imaginable. She voted for it. She only changed her mind when her political weather vane told her to.
Above all else she projects her version of how A Strong Woman looks and acts. In her mind A Strong Woman uses the military to get the job done. I don't know about you but listening to General John Allen speak on her behalf at the convention scared the sh*t out of me. If Hillary Clinton's foreign policy will be more hawk-like than Barack Obama's (and there is no indication it wouldn't be) ... then war with Russia looms nightmarishly on our horizon. Last June Dmitri Orlov, Russian-American engineer and a writer, co-authored A Russian Warning stating, "The US leadership has done everything it could to push the situation to the brink of disaster."
Ultimately she's a fascist tool of The Elite ready to carry out the Corporatocracy's agenda and will use the military to enforce it when the psychopathic Corporatocracy deems it necessary.
The tragic black comedy in all this is Donald Trump came by his nomination ... um ... honestly. The exit polls from the Republican primaries (unlike critical Democratic primaries) matched the vote outcomes. Republicans actually wanted a Mussolini-esque, tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing, shitgibbon to rule over all.
Either way the day after the elections in November we will have a fascist as president-elect of The United States. But it didn't have to be this way. Bernie Sanders would have crushed Trump in the election. The United States would not have slid further into fascism. I can't forget, I hope no one will forget ...
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