It’s disappointing, but not entirely surprising, to read
that people and organizations you respect are endorsing Hillary Clinton for
President, like Al Franken, Paul Krugman, LGBT Group, Human Rights Campaign and
even Barack Obama. Krugman, Obama and others are arguing that real change
(which Obama promised, but failed to deliver) requires strategic, incremental
steps, and won’t be accomplished by someone as radical as Bernie Sanders. In
other words, Hillary is the safe, establishment Democrat who won’t upset the
oligarchs who actually run America.
There is a sense of hopelessness in all of this.
Establishment Democrats seem to be throwing in the towel and admitting that we
have a broken system that is beyond repair, and Hillary won’t rock the boat by
trying. Everyone is afraid of Sanders except a huge chunk of the American
people, who are trying to make change happen before our streets ignite in
protests, and perhaps violence, over our unresponsive, undemocratic government.
While the establishment Democrats endorse one of their own
to take the helm of our sinking ship America, Republicans continue their
assault on democracy. Senator Mitch “Yurtle the Turtle” McConnell introduced a
resolution for the authorization of military force that gives the President
more unilateral power to wage war across the globe, essentially cutting
Congress out of the process and giving the President the powers of a dictator.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy calls it “…a
total rewrite of the War Powers Clause in the U.S. Constitution.”
The
radical right in this country does not believe in democracy, and, with its
numbers quickly dwindling, it is using what power it has left to bring about
their preferred form of government, a fascist dictatorship. They have already
succeeded in creating an oligarchy, but that’s not enough. If they ever get
another one of their own in the White House, they want him to have Putin-like
powers to force their deluded ideology onto the American people and crush
dissent quickly and violently. Sounds like a Trump rally, doesn’t it?
As
President, Hillary Clinton will not stand up to the oligarchs because she is
one of them. Her husband did their bidding in the 1990s and she will continue
to do it as President. The Democratic Hillary endorsers are the true political
cynics of the day, weak-need enablers who, for a variety of reasons (none of
them good), feel it is preferred to “work within the system” instead of
fighting it. The problem with this is that the system is far beyond the point
of a few tweaks here and there to set things right. Washington has become a
façade like an Old West movie set, a cover for the dark forces to work behind
for their own agenda, and Bernie Sanders is the only candidate willing to take
on these puppet masters. It’s a Quixotic effort to be sure, but to do nothing, or elect someone President who will do nothing,
is not an option.
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