Over the past couple weeks, I’ve mentioned this in my social media posts. I wanted to put this up as a proper blog post so people could share it across multiple social media platforms more easily.

To wit:
 

At this point, there’s so many candidates in the race competing for the establishment DNC slot, that we can help them defeat each other. I hadn’t known until the past couple weeks that there is a minimum of 15% of the vote a candidate has to win in a primary or caucus to get any delegates at all. If you look at the polls, in most states, only one or two candidates besides Bernie is busting the 15% threshold, so here’s my plan: With WARren tanking, we can easily help her drop below thew threshold with just a little pushing of Tulsi Gabbard and some continued mud-slinging in the direction of WARren. Keep flogging her history of deceit, the extent she went to steal an affirmative action slot by pretending to be native, her waffling on M4A, etc… and we should have no trouble keeping her below 15% by primary time.

 Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Booker, Patrick, and BIden are all basically competing for the same audience. If we watch the polls carefully, as soon as one of them starts to rise, we all pile on them and promote their competitors memes, until the start to sink. Then we look to see who’s rising, and do the same to them. If we can keep this up through super tuesday, JUST super tuesday, Bernie could easily get ALL the delegates in ALL of the first 4 primaries, plus sweep 2/3 of super tuesday, including possible ALL of california and massachussets. at that point, it would become impossible to stop him from reaching 50+1 by DNC time. The only early state he might lose would So. Carolina, and we just might win that, too.

If we can actually propagate this idea widely enough, get enough people on board with it, we can turn the Dem establishment strategy against itself, and win a virtual shutout. Just the emotional impact of that could be enough to completely cause the Dem establishment to implode into a circular firing squad of mutual accusation and blame, and we roll up the convention with ease because their all too busy blaming each other to fight us effectively. It’s not a long shot at all. Take a look at the early polls and you’ll see why this will work. All it will take is a dedicated core of a few hundred hard-core Berners promoting this strategy to win.

See, the thing is, this is the LAST election, ever. After this cycle, it’s too late to stop climate change from passing the next tipping point. We blow this, we don’t just lose an election, we lose all of complex life, forever. After this, it’s too late., so letting petty morality stand in your way is suicidal. We’re out of time. In a normal election cycle, we could play nice and come back with AOC in 2024 even stronger if we lose this cycle, but there IS NO NEXT ELECTION. this is it. 

Let’s do it.

Q'pla!!!!

Well, it’s less than 48 hours after Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for POTUS in 2020.

A few notable occurrences in that time period:

He raised $6 million dollars, or nearly as much as the next 4 biggest fund-raising Democratic  contenders combined. 

He’s won a total of 3 super-delegate endorsements.

The latest Daily Kos straw poll has him at 44%, or put another way, more popular than the next 5 most popular contenders combined.

He nailed danny DeVito’s endorsement.

So now I would like to offer a prediction: 

Bernie doesn’t just win the primaries, he crushes them. He literally stomps all other contenders into the ground, taking between 40% & 60% in the first half dozen states, and in all but the southern states (and maybe even a few of those) in every primary thereafter. He comes to the 2020 DNC with the nomination wrapped up in landslide.

If I had to make a comparison, this all suddenly reminds me of Ronald Reagan between losing to Ford in 1976, and crushing the GOP pack in 1980. He lead a huge sea-change in American politics to the right, and now Bernie will lead a YUUUUUUGE sea-change to left. One era has already ended. The new one is going to rock everyone’s world.

Q'PLA!!!!! 

https://berniesanders.com/ 

This time, we’re gonna win.

Just a quick one for the record.

Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy today. Within 4 hours, he’d raised more than Jamal’s Harris did in her first 24. As of right, he’s outranked her first day 5 to 1, and it’s not quite 12 hours yet.

Prediction:

All the other Send split about half the delegates between them. Bernie takes the rest. Bernie also gets a whole lot of superdelegates this time.

This time, we win.

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New York offered Amazon $3 billion in tax subsidies to locate here, and their excuse was that Amazon would bring 25000 jobs to NYC. Let’s do a little math.

The largest share of Amazon employees are warehouse workers who, thanks to Bernie, now earn $15 an hour, with zilch benefits. Let’s say they make up 2/3 of the 25000 jobs, along with janitors, servers in the commissary, and other low wage workers.

Now we’ll throw in managers, at $25 an hour, and some junior execs in mega buck range, and let’s be generous and say the average worker makes $65000 a year.

So, 65000 X 25000 = 1,625,000,000, appx 1.62 billion bucks. The deal would have left NY down about 1.35 billion.

The next time you vote, make sure your reps can do basic math. This was a free cash giveaway to Bezos and the real estate industry, who also pay no taxes thanks to the vacancy deduction.

I just finished reading this. This goes straight to the heart of the matter, and explains so much about why Clinton is at best stagnant in the polls. I couldn’t have written a better one.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/this_election_is_hillary_clintons_to_lose_and_shes_screwing_it_up_20160908

Below is part one of my article on the Democratic party and it’s demise. More specifically, on how a party that was historically the party of segregation and the south developed an undeserved reputation for progressivism, during an aberrant period in it’s history known as the New Deal Era.

If you’d like to read part two, please donate to this blog. The author is currently unemployed, and depends entirely on donations to this blog for support. Your donations will enable me to continue the writing you see here.

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With the DNC less than a month away, and more and more Bernie Sanders supporters signing Bernie or Bust pledges, with Bloomberg and Reuters polling data showing between 44% and 55% of Bernie Sanders voters unwilling to accept Hillary Clinton as a candidate, and the DNC platform committees essentially intransigent on their rejection of Bernie Sanders agenda as anything an afterthought to the DNC platform, the time has really come for Progressives of all stripes to end their sado-masochistic abusive relationship with the Democratic Party.

It’s not like the Democrats have a long glorious history as the “People’s Party”; far from it. The years from Franklin Roosevelt’s election to Lyndon Johnson’s inglorious collapse are, if anything, a bizarre aberration in what was historically, the party of segregation and nativism.

As recently as the early 1970’s, the largest portion of the segregationist cause found it’s home in the Democratic Party. From the Dixiecrat movement of the 1950’s and early 1960’s to the failed candidacies of George Wallace from 1964 through 1976. In his 1976 bid, Wallace placed third in the popular vote in the Democratic primaries, behind Jimmy Carter and Jerry Brown.

Carter’s own history of paying lip service to segregationists, as well as his place on David Rockefeller’s Trilateral commission, mark his presidency as the beginning of the Democrat’s long, slow slide back to it’s pre-New Dealer roots, as well as the dawn of it’s flirtation with neo-liberalist economic policy, which would blossom into a whole-sale embrace with the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.

While Carter has become a much-beloved figure in his post-presidential life, it’s worth noting that nearly all of his cabinet came from David Rockefeller’s Trilateral commission, and it was during Carter’s presidency that deregulation, and give-backs by unions became a part of the  American political discourse. In 1992, the election of Bill Clinton would cement the Rockefellerist international free trade movement as solidly to the DNC core as FDR had once cemented Social Democracy.

That this should now be the default setting of the DNC should come as no surprise to students of American political history: Woodrow Wilson had won the White House in a 3-way race between himself, Republican Howard Taft, and Progressive former president Teddy Roosevelt. While Wilson would appeal to African Americans in the north, he largely ignored them in the south and would screen the execrable “Birth of a Nation” for himself and  guests at the White House while president. While describing himself as a Progressive, at a time when the Progressive movement was surging, he would none the less establish the Federal Reserve, an institution supported by John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and numerous international bankers, and passed the Sedition act and Espionage act (under which everyone from Emma Goldman to Edward Snowden wand Julian Assange would be charged, but which Hillary Clinton has miraculously skirted), targeted directly at draft resisters and labor organizers, and presided over the First Red Scare.

There’s little to be shown for the Democrats in the post Civil War era before Wilson. As this chart shows, they have been out of power for far longer than they have ever been in power, and in the post civil war era, pre-FDR, they barely existed, with only the hideous single-term of Andrew Johnson and the utterly forgettable Grover Cleveland in two non-contiguous terms.

If we study the rise of the Democrats from a regional fringe party of the south (which is all it was in the early post-civil war era) which would rarely eek out a victory through short-lived alliances with mid-atlantic labor interests, such as NYC’s notorious Tammany Hall, to the dominant party of the mid-20th century, then, we find that the Democrats did not usher in the Progressive-Social Democracy era of FDR through LBJ, but rather the opposite. The Progressives made the Democrats, NOT the other way around. In nearly all instances, the Democratic establishment had to be dragged screaming and kicking every step of the way to every accomplishment they now claim credit for, and at the first opportunity, in the wake of McGovern’s disastrous 1972 defeat, they have worked fervently at dismantling the very legacy they claim.

FDR, contrary to popular Democratic party myth, did not rise on a wave of popular support to seize the Democratic nomination with unified support of his party; he was, rather, a dark horse candidate who fought a contested convention against the party bosses, who, through fortune, were divided between the Tammany Hall political boss Al Smith and the segregationist southerner John Nance Garner, and only achieved the nomination through a devil’s alliance with Garner, in which Dixiecrat Garner gained the vice presidency in exchange for his delegates votes. For those who have criticized Roosevelt’s conspicuous lack of action on Jim Crow during his tenure, you need look no farther than Garner’s wing of the DNC  for your explanation. Then as now, the south controlled a silent veto on the nomination.

FDR’s struggles with the DNC did not end with his election. Throughout his early years in office, Roosevelt’s New Deal was plagued with opposition from the American Liberty League, an organization of conservative Democrats founded by Al Smith, which included William Randolph Hearst and Prescott Bush, and many others from the corporate and financial world. Many other Democrats, including Roosevelt’s own vice-president, John Nance Garner, and prominent Democratic Senator Carter Glass of Virginia would attack Roosevelt for promoting “class warfare”. Among those who would be implicated in the alleged “Business Plot” to overthrow Roosevelt would be Hearst, Smith, Bush, Garner, conservative Democratic leader John W. Davis, and former DNC chair and GM executive John J. Raskob

All of this should sound very familiar to the supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Isn’t this the same rhetoric we’ve heard all year from the DLC alumni in the Clinton camp? This should come as no surprise. The Clintons and their allies are the direct heirs of this corrupt legacy. The Clintonian political machine bears more than a surface resemblance to the Tammany organization’s clubhouse patronage machinery of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Roosevelt’s challenges from the anti-New Deal Democratic bosses would reach a fevered pitch at the 1940 DNC where his choice of Henry Wallace as his running mate was met with a loud chorus of boos and the convention seemed on the brink of rebellion until Roosevelt threatened to decline the nomination, and leave the party without a candidate capable of defeating the popular and charismatic republican nominee, Wendell Wilkie.

The final triumph of the DNC establishment against Roosevelt would come in 1944, where the party bosses unceremoniously forced Henry Wallace from the Presidential ticket and replaced him with Missouri machine politician Harry S. Truman.  

With Harry Truman, we see the return of the DNC party bosses to the forefront of Democratic policy making. Known as the “Senator from Pendergast” during his tenure in the US Senate, Truman was a machine politician’s machine politician. The prodigy of Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast was the product of a corrupt patronage mill that would have made Tammany Boss Tweed blush. Bootlegging, organized crime, and even murder were the daily bread of the Pendergast political empire that made Truman’s political career, first electing him to a local judgeship, in spite of the fact that Truman had never attended even a day of law school, and his academic career consisted of 1 year of business school. A few years later, he would be elected presiding judge, in spite of still not even having a license to practice law. After holding a several other posts, also as the direct result of Pendergast’s patronage machine, he was elected a US Senator in 1934.

As a US Senator, he handed over federal patronage jobs to his patron, but otherwise towed the New Dealer line. As many of the New Deal’s critics have pointed out, it was through the dispensation of political patronage the FDR built support for his programs, and machine politicians like Truman were only too happy to vote for one project after another, as long as they controlled the distribution of the resultant pork. In spite of the inherent truth of this observation, FDR had contempt for the corrupt Democratic bosses, and largely ignored Truman during his senate tenure, seldom even returning his calls.

When Pendergast convicted on tax evasion charges in 1940, Truman nearly lost his seat to anti-corruption challengers, but was saved by the patronage of another political boss, Robert E. Hannegan, who would go on to secure the Veep spot for Truman at the 1944 DNC.

As president, Truman ushered in the era of the National Security State, and interventionist foreign policy that has defined the USA ever since. It’s worth noting that at the time Truman took office, the USA had the best educated population in the world and the best public education system on earth, the most extensive mass transportation network on earth, the largest shipping fleet on earth, and enjoyed more general good-will and envy than any other nation on earth. Within just more than a generation, all of this would be in ruins. While the policy positions of the Eisenhower administration would play a major role in bringing this enviable period to a close, its ruin would begin with Truman.

Truman had never really been his own man politically; he had always followed orders from a boss of one kind or another. Now, as Chief Executive Officer of the USA, he was suddenly out his depth. Truman needed a patron, and he would find one in the person of Winston Churchill.

Roosevelt’s goals for the post WWll world differed strongly with Churchill’s: Roosevelt was determined to establish US economic supremacy over the sclerotic British empire, and saw Stalin and Russia as the key to achieving this.  Churchill, conversely, sought to preserve the British empire and ensure the independence of the central and east european states as a buffer between Britain and Russia. Each sought a separate arrangement with Stalin, and neither had concluded a solid agreement for post-wwll europe when Roosevelt died and Truman succeeded him.

Unlike Roosevelt, a Hudson Valley patrician whose family included several revolutionary war heros, including the founder of Rutgers university, the first chaplain of Columbia university and numerous NY regional politicians and business giants, as well as a legendary former US president, was hardly intimidated by Churchill’s royal background, but Truman, a failed businessman and puppet politician, found the patron he sought in Churchill.

To be continued……

Let’s face reality, shall we? I want to address this to everyone who reads my blog and facebook feeds. Berners, Hillbots, Greens, et al. Let’s have a little reality check.

None of us wants Donald Trump to be POTUS, right? All of us agree this would be a Real Bad Thing™. I think so, I know pretty much all of you do to. It’s time to face reality for all of us.

Bernie Sanders looks like he’s throwing in the towel, If he hasn’t asked for the election results to be thrown out in light of the wikileaks emails, he’s not going to run as an indy either. I am sad, and disappointed, but it’s really starting to look that way.

Secondly, Jill Stein can run, and she will, and she’ll poll really well because of this, and may even establish the Greens as a viable 3rd party, as the Republicans did in the 1850’s when they broke from the Democrats over slavery, but she probably won’t win this round. Maybe next time, but not this time. That’s reality also. Mind you, I am NOT telling you not to vote for her. I am probably voting for her. See my articles “Allow me to clarify for you” and “Why Hillary Clinton must not be POTUS” from a couple weeks ago to understand my reasons. 

Now face the BIG reality, the harsh reality, the reality that friends of mine like Bill Weinberg and Dave Neiwert won’t face. Hillary can’t beat him either.

Let’s be honest, since I’m being really honest here. Hillary just imploded. In fact, the whole damn Democratic party just imploded. Hillary’s poll numbers are in freefall. She is collapsing as we speak. Her current dive makes George McGovern’s collapse in the wake of the Eagleton affair look like Obama’s 2008 victory lap by comparison. Get this straight, because it is important!!!

THIS IS NOT BERNIE’S FAULT. It is not Jill Stein’s fault. It is not Julian Assange’s fault. It is not Ralph Nader’s fault.It is Hillary Clinton’s fault, and the DNC’s fault. They did this. No one made them write the stupid emails. No one made them rig the primary. No one made them collude with Big Media. No one made them sabotage Bernie’s campaign. They did this themselves, and now they’re facing the results of having that become public. They are collapsing.

So, right now, Tom the Dancing Bug could beat Hillary. She is dead. As the days and weeks move on, and more of the emails Wikileaks has not yet released but has promised to are released, she will get deader. Nominating her for the POTUS race is now suicide. If the DNC goes through with this, they’re toast. We’re toast.

IF YOU WANT TO BEAT TRUMP, YOU MUST DUMP HILLARY. YOU MUST FIND ANOTHER CANDIDATE. YOU MUST DO IT NOW.

Let me tell you what is going to happen if  Clinton is the nominee: Her poll numbers will fall with each new release from wikileaks. A third of Sanders supporters (my self included) will go over to Jill Stein.  She’ll keep the email scandals alive, as will Trump, as will Johnson. Stein and Johnson will each pull between 10% and 20% of the vote in November. Trump and Clinton will each pull between 20% and 35% of the vote in November. NO ONE will get 270 electoral votes, and so the election will go to the House of representatives, and we’ll get President Trump. That’s it. Don’t waste my time arguing that it won’t happen if we all vote for Hillary. If everybody voted for Bernie he’d be the nominee. They didn’t, he isn’t, that’s it. So too with Hillary. The reason the DNC rigged the primaries was because they KNOW no one wanted Hillary for POTUS. If they did, there would have been no need to rig the game. The truth is, she has never been very electable. Her electability has always been pure hype, and now the hype is imploding. No one is ignoring the woman behind the curtain, The great and all powerful Oz is exposed.

Look, this should be her victory lap. Bernie has now endorsed her, not once, but twice, and yet her poll numbers are still collapsing. There’s a certain level of stench that gets going, and once it does, people walk away. That stench level has been breached. Nothing will change that.

Bernie would still be the best choice. He did place a close second, and with the extent of the conspiracy within the DNC (and don’t you DARE call me out for calling it a conspiracy, because that is EXACTLY what it was - check the legal definition of a conspiracy here on lawlib before you argue with me) to destroy his campaign, it could be argued he is actually the legitimate victor, but I realize this is a long shot. I don’t expect Bernie to be the nominee, and after his speech tonight endorsing Hillary Clinton, I don’t believe he’ll stage an indy run either, so let’s forget Bernie. In all honestly the best way the DNC could respond to this would be to strip Hillary of her delegates and nominate Bernie (and that’s why I’m here in Philly), but as of this writing on the first night of the DNC, they’re just not very likely to.

So that leaves the DNC with two options. Their names are Merkley and Warren. Pretty much everyone else in the party is tainted by their association with the DLC and New Democrat coalition, and that’s who’s popularity is imploding. Merkley endorsed Sanders, and so the Berners would find him acceptable. He’s anti-TPP, so the Berners would find him acceptable. He’s a lifelong Democrat, so the establishment should find him acceptable. Warren speaks for herself. Before this election cycle began, she was the Democrat’s most recognizable progressive voice. Her failure to endorse Sanders has tainted her a bit in the eyes of Bernie’s supporters, but they would still accept her, and I think most would vote for her. I would, especially if Merkley were her running mate.

Do you get what I’m saying? I’m willing to back a compromise. So are a lot of us. I understand the DNC are big babies and they can’t let the dirty hippies win. I accept this. What the DNC must accept, is Hillary won’t win either. We can still stop Trump is we compromise. We will all lose badly if we don’t. Hillary is a tainted candidate now. She will sink like a stone moving forwards. We must find an alternative.

I realize my rant here is probably futile. The Clintonian corruption in the DNC is pervasive, and it will probably take the inevitable crushing defeat in November to break it, and honestly I doubt even that will. So I despair of any rational action in a timely manner. The 1850 election cycle was a disaster for the Whigs, who never recovered, but it was symbolic victory for the Republicans, who would go on to win the presidency and the congress and establish a 72 year long dynasty for themselves a decade later. That is what I expect the Greens will accomplish this cycle, but in this case it will be a Pyrrhic victory. The human race doesn’t have another decade to waste, and even a long-shot Clinton recovery will not accomplish the goals necessary to ensure our survival and avoid extinction. Only a real progressive victory would do that, and that’s probably not going to happen unless the DNC dumps Hillary.

So, please, don’t waste my time with more “I’m with her” rhetoric. If you want to tie the same anchor around your neck she’s wearing, go ahead. I’m sorry, but I have better things to do than drown with you.

http://www.salon.com/2016/07/25/shock_poll_nate_silvers_election_forecast_now_has_trump_winning/

Last week, the night before the first votes in the California primary were cast, the Associated Press and several television news programs declared Hillary Clinton the winner of the California primary and the Democratic party nominee for President of the United States of America.

I don’t suppose this should really have come as a shock to me. In a primary season in which one election after another was called before the votes were even cast, and in which literally millions of registered Democrats in state after state were denied their right to vote through voter purges, lost ballots, or hacked voting machines, nothing should really surprise me. None the less, California trumps (no pun intended) even the blatantly rigged NY and Arizona primaries in the sheer arrogance of the Team Clinton in declaring victory the night before the election, even as polls showed Hillary Clinton and her opponent, Bernie Sanders, neck-and-neck.

Many people I’ve spoken to about the exceptional degree of fraud in the Democratic primary this election cycle have yawned and declared that all elections are rigged, that I should simply get over it, and accept that Bernie never had a chance. That’s the establishment narrative to a T. It’s also the cynical wing of the far-left’s narrative as well. Funny they should find themselves in such close agreement, but that’s a different subject for a different article.

I’m not going to dwell, in this article, about  the astonishing arrogance of Team Clinton. Frankly, it’s nothing new. If there’s one thing we know about the Clinton’s, it’s their deep belief that the rules don’t apply to them.  That’s not something new. 

What is new is the extent of the  fraud in this past election cycle. I’ve been politically active since i was 11, when I was an office volunteer for George McGovern in 1972. I’ve seen a few really filthy election contests. There’s the 1983 NYC mayoral campaign, where Ed Koch actively encouraged the Lyndon LaRouche candidate to run as a Democrat to split opposition candidate Frank Barbaro’s vote, and the 1992 NY Democratic primary, where Billary encouraged Paul Tsongas to put his name back on the ballot after he had suspended his campaign over a cancer diagnosis a month earlier, and split Jerry Brown’s vote. That’s the kind of dirty politics we’re accustomed to. It’s the kind of nasty political infighting that gives politicians nicknames like Tricky Dick Nixon or Slick Willy Clinton.

What we’ve seen this election cycle isn’t sleazy politics, it’s outright voter fraud. Hundreds of thousands purged from NY’s voter rolls, Blatant election tampering by Bill CLinton himself in Massachusetts, where he and his security team effectively shut down several polling places in Bernie friendly districts in on election day, preventing several thousand from voting, and outright theft in the Nevada convention where registered democratic delegates were stripped of their delegate status by a completely unlawful fiat of the state DNC chair. We’ve seen a level of collusion between corporate media, the DNC chair, and the Clinton campaign that hasn’t been seen at the federal level since the early 19th century. 

 All of the above, and far more I haven’t touched on because proof is still pending, are a terrifying trend, because if Team CLinton succeed at snagging the nomination this summer, and then win in November, this will become formula.

Large organizations love formula. Formula is the holy grail of marketing, and campaigns are all about marketing. Apple has a hit with a touch-screen smart phone, all of a sudden everyone’s making a touchscreen smart phone. Tiny keyboards are over, nobody will make one again, ever. Law and Order makes a hit in the ratings on TV, all of a sudden there’s a half a dozen spin-offs, and lots of copy-cat shows like Crime Scene Investigation, etc….. Formula is how it’s done! Once you have a hit, you keep doing it that way, and so does everyone else.

That phenomena is why I’m writing this article. If Hillary ins in November, this kind of election rigging will be the new formula. There’ll never be another major party campaign done any other way. Even the weak democracy we have known and loathed in the USA this past half-century will be over and one with, forever. No one will ever bother to build a campaign on ideas again, no one will ever bother to run as a challenger or outsider again. The netroots movement of retail politics, with insurgent campaigns backed by aggregating large amounts of small donations from ordinary people will be dead. Democracy will be over and done with, and sham elections will be the standard nation wide, and eventually world wide, forever. We will never have any say in our future, ever again.

All of the above is what draws me to this final and rather disturbing realization: NO MATTER WHAT IT COSTS US, Hillary Clinton must NEVER be POTUS. Even if it means voting for the Republicans, she absolutely, positively MUST LOSE this election.

Let’s be realistic. The Clintons are notoriously vindictive. The internet-driven netroots movement cost them victory in 2008, and nearly cost them (and may yet, if we are very lucky) the 2016 election. This isn’t the sort of thing they’ll forget. You can be sure she will make destroying internet driven political activism a high priority, and with a compliant, mostly establishment democratic Senate, and a reactionary Republican house, you can be sure she will be able to get what she wants through the same triangulation politics her husband used to such great effect in the 90’s. DOn’t forget, the RNC hates internet activists as much or more than the DNC does. They’ll let her pass her ban on internet fundraising, or her website censorship laws, or her internet slow-lanes without any argument. This isn’t about party, it’s about power, the power to control the debate and keep it where the establishment wants it. about a third of the democrats and 2/3 of the republicans will oppose her, but the remainder will provide her enough of a majority to pass her legislation. TPP, TIPP, and other trade treaties will extend libel laws and criminalize boycotts, and silence publicity around things like Glyphosate and other toxic pesticides, and threats to the environment. THis isn’t just likely, it’s all but certain.

Now let’s consider the scenario where the we have a Democratic Senate and a republican POTUS.  The Democrats will dig in and obstruct every way they can, building a public image of defying the mad man Donald Trump. They’ll probably win the midterms, and will control redistricting going into 2020.  In a Clinton administration, Dems will almost certainly lose seats in the midterms, possibly even returning the Senate to republican control after gaining it back this election cycle. They’ll have no voice in the 2020 redistricting, and we’ll get another 10 years of a republican house. 

With a GOP controlled white house, Democrats will protect internet freedom any way they can, because they will NEED the netroots movement to regain the White HOuse in 2020, and to take congress in the 2018 midterms. Yes, we may lose the supreme court, but with a democratic controlled Senate, we may not. With the Clintons gone from politics after two consecutive defeats, their wing of the party will be in retreat, with the progressive wing rising, with newly elected berniecrats joining exiting progressives in the house and senate. the possibility of a no new supreme court justices during a trump administration is not out of the question, especially as the Dems struggle to convince a newly-radical electorate that they are actually good for something, after all.

So I put this forward for your consideration.  ONe way, we will suffer through four years of hell. the other way we lose everything we have built in the 10 years since retail politics began with Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign.

Sometimes, if you want to win anything, you have to be willing to risk losing everything. This is one of those times.


UPDATE: THIS ARTICLE goes into some detail about Hillary Clinton’s plan to “close up” sections of the internet to fight terrorism. Now, please remember, that among the things the USA defines as terrorism these days, is talking about the constitution, buying food in bulk, gardening, etc… and that groups like Occupy Wall Street are considered low-level terrorism. ANY dissent these days is labeled terrorism. As far back as the early 2K’s, the chairmen of Maine’s Green Party found her name on the national no-fly list!! How much would you like to bet lots of Berniecrats and Sandernistas will receive the same treatment? After all, Berniecrats MUST be terrorists! They threw chairs at the Nevada state party convention, just like the bosnian snipers that never existed did!

We simply CAN NOT lose the ability to fundraise on the internet. We MUST not.  PLEASE take this seriously. This could end up being the last free election, ever.