Sunday, June 26, 2016

The Sound of Angry Democrats Stampeding

When it was confirmed in this round of Democratic National Committee negotiation on the party's platform that the TransPacific Partnership will be promoted, the outraged roar which arose was formidable to behold.  It's only been months since Hillary Clinton flatly repudiated the TPP and that was after fervently promoting it for Obama.  This kind of shiftlessness is indicative of a politician and specifically not a President.  As Obama said when she ran against him, "She will say anything to get elected."


There's been more political chicanery in this election than in the Congressional Hall of Mirrors and more than we have ever seen in our lives they have made a mockery of equal representation.  There's no possible way of achieving equal presentation because each state represents any particular candidate based on whatever underground network of political operatives each one can build.  While it's indicative of a minor level of managerial skill to accomplish that build, it's only a simple cookie cutter mechanism which applies the same way anywhere, it only needs to be repeated.  The operating variable is money and that's where the Wall Street termites get into it.


The root problem remains since each candidate is not presented equally for fair comparison in each state.  Equal representation is impossible when the people don't know clearly what each candidate represents.  That kind of gamesmanship should be beneath the dignity of a Presidential candidate and the staff working for them but, as we have seen more than ever this season, nothing is below that dignity.  It's been an end-to-end disgrace.


There's no great analysis required as Republicans are abandoning the Republican National Committee in droves and it's highly likely we will see the same thing with Democrats from the Democratic National Committee.  That will leave a huge vacuum particularly in combination with a large number of Independents who never bought any of it anyway.

Bernie needs to immediately and effectively repudiate the DNC which is rapidly abandoning every aspect of that which Sanders has so passionately brought to the People.  Failing that, his message is lost because we will not roll over for Hillary Clinton.  Her credibility was low already but she shot it all to hell with this stunt.

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