Don't give up; stand up! This ain't over. Contrary to the propaganda you see and hear in the mass media, Tuesday was not the end of the Democratic presidential primary race. Between now and June 14, there are 28 more states, territories and districts that will send delegates to the convention. Forget the superdelegates. A superdelegate is, by definition, an uncommitted delegate. Clinton only has 314 more elected delegates than Bernie. There are 2087 delegates still to be selected!
Stop talking about Trump! The media has demonstrated its hostility by its blackouts, its slanted reporting and by its snark. Ignore them. Now stop getting caught up in the fear regarding Trump. Until a candidate is nominated by the delegates votes, at the convention, he is irrelevant. If he is nominated, worry about him in November. Yes, he's awful. Yes, he has fascist tendencies. He is not yet the GOP nominee and the general election isn't until November. Focus!
It is easy to get caught up in fear and hysteria. Everyone wants to say, "I can't live in a country with Trump as President!" "I'll hold my nose and vote for Hillary before Trump!" That is an option. IF she is the nominee. Many of us may never vote for her, but that is mostly irrelevant now too. The important thing is to not get discouraged when Bernie has a bad night, nor to let up on our efforts. We must double our efforts. Those of us who live in states that have already voted, and have canvassed, must work the phone banks into upcoming states. Those living in the upcoming states must realize that the rallies are great and sharing memes on Facebook and across Twitter are reinforcing, but you must knock on doors, make phone calls and pester all your friends and relations to vote for Bernie.
Too many people are allowing themselves to be caught up in the news cycle and the free media that Trump and Clinton get and suddenly talking about Hillary. Stop it! Stop your friends. When anyone says they're for Bernie but are voting for Hillary in November, make them talk to your hand! Insist that she is not the nominee and it is our intention that she not be. If they are so worried about Trump, they must work harder for Bernie. Polls show he is the only candidate seeking the Democratic nomination that can beat Kasich or Cruz and he would beat Trump by a wider margin than Clinton. That means a Clinton nomination would make a Trump presidency more likely. Your insurance plan is Bernie Sanders!
Remember why we're for Bernie in the first place. He's honest; she is not. He opposed the war; she did not. He wants to break up the banks; she does not. He opposes fracking; she does not. He wants to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act; she does not. He wants to abolish the death penalty; she does not. He refuses super-PAC money; she does not. He opposes interventionism; she does not. He rejects private prison money; she does not. And she talks about herself, while Bernie talks about us.
If you are one of those who say that if we fall short at the convention, and Clinton gets the nomination you will vote for her, remember later that you voted for the lesser of two evils. Our beliefs must not change (even if hers often do). Bernie is building a movement. The revolution goes on. We must stick together. That does not mean sticking with her. If people vote for her, as a rejection of Trump, it changes nothing about our views of her. If she becomes President, we will remember why we did not support her in the first place. We joined Bernie because we rejected what she represents. Even if she's elected, the revolution must go on. Her support of the banks, her militarism, her cronyism must be resisted. Her hollow words must be ignored. She is not for the revolution. She is not about the revolution. She is not of the revolution. She is the target of the revolution. It is her throne that we seek to overthrow!
Let's not get in a position of having to make a dreadful choice in November. Let's not get in the position of anyone having to fight the president they helped elect. Let's get the nomination right. We've got a candidate. He's made us proud. Keep working. Keep pushing.
Go Bernie!
Forward with the Revolution!!
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
Vote for Bernie Sanders
You should vote for Bernie Sanders, in the Democratic primary. Here's why I'm going to:
If our country is going to survive as a democracy, we've got to get money out of politics. Bernie wants to reform the campaign finance laws, not take advantage of them.
He wants to break up the huge financial institutions that threaten our national security. Their existence, as is, is a sword over our heads. They take risks for which they won't have to suffer the assumed moral hazard. Why? Because we'll be forced to bail them out. They're to big to fail. They hold the whole economy hostage.
Bernie believes these thieves are criminals. He would prosecute them, rather than continuing a two tiered system of justice, where the politically, and financially, connected get a pass and everyone else goes to jail.
Bernie wants to enact single-payer healthcare. Medicare would be for all. Why should we be paying the insurance companies, when we can do this better, together? There are many other reasons I support Bernie Sanders, but these are the ones that first attracted me to him.
Actually, there is one more. His opposition is Hillary Rodham Clinton. In October 2002, she voted to authorize the Iraq War. That war killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children. It made refugees of millions and destroyed relics and archaelogical sites going back to ancient Ninevah, in biblical times. Hillary Clinton now claims the war was a mistake, but she doesn't say it was her mistake. Millions of us went into the streets to protest, on February 15, 2003, ahead of the war. We knew it was a mistake. Bernie Sanders knew it was a mistake. Hillary Clinton served on the Senate Intelligence Committee. So did Russ Feingold; he voted against the war (he was also the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act, as did then Rep. Bernie Sanders; Hillary voted for it). Thirteen years later and Saddam Hussein's unemployed officers are now the general staff of the Islamic State.
Hillary Clinton represents everything that is wrong with politics in our country. She is the recipient of legalized bribery. Why would multiple financial institutions give her and her husband millions of dollars? Because they are such spell binding speakers? While I assume the reason she doesn't want to release the transcripts of her speeches before Democrats vote in their primaries is because she probably mocked the Occupy Wall Street movement, comforted the well heeled audience by telling them she thought they were being unfairly maligned and assured them that she didn't believe in over regulation, the content of her speeches is really irrelevant. It doesn't matter what she said. The speeches were just an excuse to funnel her money. Her husband's administration was a temporary way station for many Wall Street big wigs to sit while they directed the economy to their advantage. Not only is there a business and political connection to Goldman Sachs, there is a familial one. Their daughter is married to a Goldman Sachs man, and lives in a $10,500,000.00 apartment . Are these the people that will defend us from the oligarchs?
Hillary Clinton, while incredibly well spoken, speaks with a forked tongue. There is not a nice way to say it. She lies. Just in the last week, she told two whoppers. One was that Nancy Reagan was in the vanguard of those calling for tolerance and help for AIDS victims, and the other was that Bernie Sanders was somehow AWOL when Hillary was working on a healthcare package for here husband, in the early 1990s. As most will recall, the Reagans were not in the vanguard, but straglers, during the AIDS epidemic. And video and still footage, as well as audio demonstrate that she bore false witness against Bernie Sanders. And this compilation of several of her "misstatements", making the rounds this weekend, surprised even me.
Those inclined to vote for Hillary, thinking she is the surer bet to beat the Republicans in November, need to think again. As this data from national polls shows, Bernie would beat Trump by a wider margin than Hillary, and he is the only Democrat that would beat Cruz, Rubio or Kasich.
Vote for Bernie.
If our country is going to survive as a democracy, we've got to get money out of politics. Bernie wants to reform the campaign finance laws, not take advantage of them.
He wants to break up the huge financial institutions that threaten our national security. Their existence, as is, is a sword over our heads. They take risks for which they won't have to suffer the assumed moral hazard. Why? Because we'll be forced to bail them out. They're to big to fail. They hold the whole economy hostage.
Bernie believes these thieves are criminals. He would prosecute them, rather than continuing a two tiered system of justice, where the politically, and financially, connected get a pass and everyone else goes to jail.
Bernie wants to enact single-payer healthcare. Medicare would be for all. Why should we be paying the insurance companies, when we can do this better, together? There are many other reasons I support Bernie Sanders, but these are the ones that first attracted me to him.
Actually, there is one more. His opposition is Hillary Rodham Clinton. In October 2002, she voted to authorize the Iraq War. That war killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children. It made refugees of millions and destroyed relics and archaelogical sites going back to ancient Ninevah, in biblical times. Hillary Clinton now claims the war was a mistake, but she doesn't say it was her mistake. Millions of us went into the streets to protest, on February 15, 2003, ahead of the war. We knew it was a mistake. Bernie Sanders knew it was a mistake. Hillary Clinton served on the Senate Intelligence Committee. So did Russ Feingold; he voted against the war (he was also the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act, as did then Rep. Bernie Sanders; Hillary voted for it). Thirteen years later and Saddam Hussein's unemployed officers are now the general staff of the Islamic State.
Hillary Clinton represents everything that is wrong with politics in our country. She is the recipient of legalized bribery. Why would multiple financial institutions give her and her husband millions of dollars? Because they are such spell binding speakers? While I assume the reason she doesn't want to release the transcripts of her speeches before Democrats vote in their primaries is because she probably mocked the Occupy Wall Street movement, comforted the well heeled audience by telling them she thought they were being unfairly maligned and assured them that she didn't believe in over regulation, the content of her speeches is really irrelevant. It doesn't matter what she said. The speeches were just an excuse to funnel her money. Her husband's administration was a temporary way station for many Wall Street big wigs to sit while they directed the economy to their advantage. Not only is there a business and political connection to Goldman Sachs, there is a familial one. Their daughter is married to a Goldman Sachs man, and lives in a $10,500,000.00 apartment . Are these the people that will defend us from the oligarchs?
Hillary Clinton, while incredibly well spoken, speaks with a forked tongue. There is not a nice way to say it. She lies. Just in the last week, she told two whoppers. One was that Nancy Reagan was in the vanguard of those calling for tolerance and help for AIDS victims, and the other was that Bernie Sanders was somehow AWOL when Hillary was working on a healthcare package for here husband, in the early 1990s. As most will recall, the Reagans were not in the vanguard, but straglers, during the AIDS epidemic. And video and still footage, as well as audio demonstrate that she bore false witness against Bernie Sanders. And this compilation of several of her "misstatements", making the rounds this weekend, surprised even me.
Those inclined to vote for Hillary, thinking she is the surer bet to beat the Republicans in November, need to think again. As this data from national polls shows, Bernie would beat Trump by a wider margin than Hillary, and he is the only Democrat that would beat Cruz, Rubio or Kasich.
Vote for Bernie.
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