Clinton's own remarks at the rally were equally demagogic and deceptive. She denounced "trickle-down supply-side economics" which were responsible for "30 years of a disastrous Republican philosophy that gave the huge breaks to those at the top." She conveniently left out that those "30 years" included the eight-year administration of her own husband, who followed the dictates of the financial markets no less slavishly than the Republicans.
She pledged to "open the doors to everyone who shares our progressive values," although the political careers of both Bill and Hillary Clinton have been based on moving the Democratic Party ever further to the right--abolishing welfare, promoting harsh policing and mass imprisonment, deregulating the banks, and generally distancing the Democrats from any association with policies of liberal reform.
In his remarks Tuesday in New Hampshire, Sanders declared that his campaign would continue, in the form of an all-out effort to elect Hillary Clinton president and elect Democratic majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives. To call such an outcome a "political revolution" is, to say the least, a cynical fraud.
The Democratic Party is, like the Republican Party, an instrument of the financial aristocracy that rules America. While the Republican Party generally expresses the ruling class's appetite for wealth and power in its most unrestrained form, the Democratic Party has long served as the principal vehicle for neutralizing any challenge to the corporate elite from below.
Despite the best efforts of the media, the Democratic Party and the political establishment as a whole, including Sanders himself, the social and economic opposition that found an initial expression in support for his campaign will not disappear. Whoever wins in November will oversee a society riven by social conflict and will implement deeply unpopular policies, including a sharp expansion of war abroad and the attack on the working class at home.
Workers and young people attracted to the Sanders campaign must draw the necessary conclusions. The Democratic Party cannot be transformed and capitalism cannot be reformed. A leadership must be built to unite the developing struggles of the working class in a revolutionary movement against the corporate and financial elite and the profit system they defend.
The Socialist Equality Party is building this political leadership. It is for this reason that the SEP and its candidates, Jerry White and Niles Niemuth, are running in the presidential election. We urge all our readers to support our campaign and join the Socialist Equality Party.
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