The Chris Moeller Archives

Sanders abandons the ship

The upstart candidate that took the Democratic Party primaries by storm announced yesterday that he is leaving the party. Bernie Sanders is returning to his status as an independent in the United States Senate.

Seeing as how he drew more than 13 million votes nationally (more than Republican nominee Donald Trump), that he leaves amidst allegations of unfair treatment by the party's national committee against his campaign, and that he departs only three months prior to election day, shouldn't this be a big national news story?

It's not. I found it only on a website for a British newspaper.

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Hedge fund political donors, of the ilk of Hillary's son-in-law, have given the campaign of the Democratic nominee $123 million. This same group has given Trump $19,000.

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Here's some good news for revolutionaries, though. There's a plan from this corner of the internet to put an end to the nation's oligarchic government. Opposition to it is incredibly powerful, but the plan itself shockingly simple. If only third party presidential candidates were permitted to participate in the televised debates, voter support would certainly increase by a matter of exponents. A place on these panels, which is granted as a rare privilege by an unholy commission created, staffed, and controlled by the two major parties, lends the candidates the sheen of electability, as it did in the era of public-controlled commissions for independent presidential candidates John Anderson and Ross Perot. Democrats and Republicans know this. That's why they created their own apparatus. Presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein could easily challenge Trump and Clinton at the ballot since 80% of Americans agree with their fellows that neither Trump nor Clinton "shares their values." Even Anderson and Perot didn't have that type of advantageous reality on their side.

posted by CM @ 6:21 PM