One night in the fight
It's been a brilliant summer for the Democrats. You have to give them credit. They can read political tea leaves, as one would expect of the leaders of a major party. They hear the voter discontent. They hear the boos of their own convention delegates. They witness the spectacle of former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's convention speech being drowned out by a chorus of "No more war." They see the size of the populist Sanders rallies in their own party, the reactionary Trump rallies, the street protests, all of those indicators that the establishment is crumbling.And they double down on it.
Smart. They put on a prime-time television show for a week promoting the party establishment and the Washington status quo. They make a figurative vow to usher us back to the 1990s. They make a show of their naked disenfranchisement of millions of young voters. They nominate a candidate that's mature enough to recognize that there are tough decisions that need to be made in the world, and that's why Wall Street banks could do with less regulation, and Palestinians should be caged in an open-air prison that recalls the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. They appreciate the truth behind that often-misconceived notion that political expedience and private enrichment are actually courage in disguise!
There have been some brilliant surprises. The McCarthy-ite attacks by a supposedly-liberal party against Americans that align too closely with Russia. I admit I didn't see that one coming. The party chairwoman being served with a class action lawsuit for alleged fraud, negligent misrepresentation, deceptive conduct, and breaking legally-binding neutrality agreements. I didn't personally predict it.
And it's working. The polling gap in the top ballot race is widening. They're running against a Republican presidential candidate inspired by Max Bialystock that may yet be revealed to be a Democratic Party agent, and they're finally starting to get some traction against him. Barring an unforeseen debacle during a televised debate or a late-breaking criminal indictment, their candidate is going to return Bill Clinton's junk to the halls of the West Wing and make this country just as prosperous or not so prosperous as you think she's going to.
Of course, it's been a good year for my party as well, the one for which I ran as a candidate for state representative in 2008. Green presidential hopeful, Dr. Jill Stein, along with her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, the founding director of the US Human Rights Network, are currently polling at 6% despite an almost complete blackout by corporate media. That number is more than 12 times what Stein drew at the ballot in 2012-- and among voters under 30 years old, the current number stands at 16%.
Just a snapshot moment in time during the Revolution.
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The Jill Stein "anti-vaccine" controversy and the Barack Obama "birther" squabble have a lot in common. They're both bullshit and they were both dreamed up by a Hillary Clinton for President campaign.
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Was that really the father of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen standing behind Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally on Monday? Political news items just get crazier and crazier as the empire sinks into collapse. Somebody needs to coach this guy on the art of political savvy.
For one thing, if you wind up participating in the Democrats' primary process, there's a good chance the party won't count your vote.
And now you know why Hillary's preferred campaign event is the closed-door private fundraiser.
posted by CM @ 7:55 PM
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