Philly and Beyond, Fighting the Corporatists

Bernie Sanders supporters in Wisconsin passed a resolution at the 2016 Democratic Party of the Wisconsin State Convention calling for an end to super-delegates and their power to select the presidential nominee.

They did so on the weekend before Clinton and the corporate media will declare the Sanders-Clinton race over on the basis of super-delegates' perceived preference, (Johnson, Wisconsin Public Radio) (Sommerhauser, Wisconsin State Journal).

Super-delegates are Democrats in Congress and other dead-end Party functionaries, who largely toe the establishment line to curry favor with the financiers and Party minions, (Hughes and Peterson, Wall Street Journal).

Clinton's continuing her impersonation of the comically insincere Selina Meyer of Veep, (HBO), has been consistent over the last year: Hillary Clinton is entitled to the nomination because Clinton has the super-delegates' imprimatur, (Halperin, Epstein, Aug. 28, 2015; (BloombergPolitics)).

There is no need for the Democratic Party presidential primary, Clinton's campaign implied. The unmentioned corollary is that voters could have just stayed home.

This coming Monday or Tuesday, Clinton's sentiments will be joined in a definitive manner by the corporate media who have polled the same super-delegates, and will declare Hillary Clinton as nominee, echoing the Clinton campaign's oft-repeated posture of last winter and spring.

That this scheme is in violation of Party rules is of no relevancy to Clinton.

The only way Hillary Clinton is going to win the nomination is when and if the super-delegates vote for her, and that is not taking place until the end of July [at the Democratic Party Convention]. A lot has been said in the Democratic primary about 'the rules being the rules.' I agree with that.

The rules are that the super-delegates do not count until the convention. Luis Miranda of the DNC made that abundantly clear himself last month.

Anyone who 'calls the election' on June 7th, be it the Clinton campaign or television networks, is knowingly and deliberately going against the very rules of the party, (King, CommonDreams).

Clinton—with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz working for her with virtually the entire Democratic Party establishment—was able to run up the votes in states where Bernie Sanders could not compete. This does not confer any legitimacy to the presidential primary process.

The primary process was crafted for Clinton as the establishment's favored candidate, so this week's declaration by Bernie Sanders he is taking the fight to the floor of the Democratic Party Convention should be met by all reform-minded progressives as a vow to fight a thoroughly dishonest Hillary Clinton and the retrograde forces for whom Clinton fronts.

Clinton will tell the world that there is much more that unites Sanders' voters with Clinton than what divides Sanders' voters with Clinton.

Not if Sanders' voters are working for a change in which they can believe.

California Democrats, Please Do Not Vote for Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton is a liar and hypocrite.

Sanders Takes on Dem Party Insiders as Clinton Candidacy in Free Fall

RealClearPolitics Aggregation of Polls
Shows Clinton in Free Fall

Hillary Clinton is now in free fall, and Trump leads Clinton in numerous polls' hypothetical general election match-ups, (RealClearPolitics), a spectacular development ignored to this point in corporate media coverage.

Bernie Sanders continues to wallop Trump in hypothetical general election match-ups, a fact that is blacked-out by corporate media, (RealClearPolitics).

For example, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Sanders destroying Trump in a head-to-head race, 50 to 39 percent, (RealClearPolitics).

Voters for Bernie Sanders have denied Hillary Clinton's campaign to amass enough pledged/won delegates to secure the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidency.

So, Clinton has been forced to Plan B: Superdelegates—Democratic Party politicians and myriad insiders who pledged their fealty to Clinton last year in self-serving attempts to move up in the Party hierarchy.

Superdelegates don't vote until the Convention and are not bound to vote for any candidate.

A rigged primary system for Clinton includes the DNC front-loading the Democratic Party's primary calendar in an failed attempt to lock up the nomination for Clinton before the late July Convention.

Meanwhile, corporate media such as ABC News, Washington Post, MSNBC and CNN for example, disingenuously present the findings of their own polls as demonstrating Clinton has already won the nomination.

Clinton has failed to garner the necessary total of bound delegates.

"Never in the history of the Post-ABC poll have the two major party nominees been viewed as harshly as Clinton and Trump," write Dan Balz and Scott Clement in the Washington Post.

The facts that Clinton is not the nominee, and cannot obtain the necessary bound delegates to guarantee a win before the nomination do not deter the factually incorrect, biased and slanted statement that Clinton is a "party nominee."

Sanders and progressive Tim Canova

Sanders is calling for a political revolution and growing number of his supporters reject Clinton in the general election.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz maintains her loyalty to Hillary Clinton.

Sanders has endorsed Schultz' primary opponent, the progressive Tim Canova, against Rep. Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla).

Writes Sanders in email this morning:

So let me introduce you to Tim Canova, a progressive challenger who is running against Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in a Democratic primary in Florida this year.

Tim endorsed Bernie’s presidential campaign, and was inspired to run because of Wasserman Schultz’ support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. His campaign is funded like ours, by lots of people giving small amounts of money.

And on issues like taking on Wall Street, making tuition free at public colleges, and reforming our broken campaign finance system, he is someone you can be proud to support. That's why Bernie is endorsing Tim's campaign ... .

This weekend Sander repeated his call to include the votes of all remaining state primaries and caucuses in consideration of whom the Democratic Party selects as its nominee for the presidency.

Sanders called for voters to ensure the general election is not a lesser-of-two-evils race, rather a clear choice between a progressive and the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton, Time to Bow Out and Take Wasserman Schultz with You

It's so much better for the Party if Bernie Sanders falls in line behind Hillary Clinton, say the commissars.

Is it possible for the two major political parties to be so out-of-touch? Right.

Clinton is an annoying troll and imperils the nomination of the stronger general election candidate, Bernie Sanders, against Donald Trump.

Clinton should leave politics, and Sanders and his supporters will clean up her mess.

Trump is going to be a more difficult proposition than the Democratic Party assumes.

Plenty of Time for Queen of Chaos to Self-Destruct

The American people should know: You don't have to vote for Hillary Clinton and the neo-con, neo-lib predations against the world.

Vote Bernie Sanders.

Sanders and supporters have denied Clinton winning the Democratic Party nomination with pledged/won delegates against all odds and against a rigged system. There is no way Clinton can win the nomination with pledged delegates.

If in late July at the Democratic Convention in Philly, superdelegates are so deluded or corrupt as to install Hillary Clinton, there is a fall-back position.

"The guys running the show in the Democratic Party are basically the funders --- and that's predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, and insurance companies," Jill Stein tells the BradBlog. "With the Democratic Party you see basically a 'fake left-go right' situation, where they allow principled, inspired campaigns to stand up and be seen, but they sabotage them when push comes to shove. That, unfortunately, is what we see go on right now with the Sanders campaign, which is making a valiant effort here to do the right thing and change the party."

Superdelegates want to run the show in Philly, then walk out and work for a Stein-Sanders ticket.

Of course, Hillary Clinton could do the decent thing and suspend her campaign, but I would not count on Hillary Clinton doing the decent thing.

Hillary Clinton: Ready or Not, 'I'm the Nominee'

Never have I seen politician so steeped in her own sense of entitlement for nomination to public office as Hillary Clinton.

And I've seen some beauts in Wisconsin where I live.

"I will be the nominee for my party," Clinton said in an interview this week with CNN's Chris Cuomo. "That is already done, in effect. There is no way that I won't be," (CBS News).

Of course, Clinton has acclaimed her entitlement to the nomination since at least last August when her campaign sent down the message the Democratic Presidential Primary race is over, (Halperin, Epstein, Aug. 28, 2015; (BloombergPolitics)).

Whether Clinton is so pathetically lost in ego, (I mean "Ready for Hillary," who wrote that one?), that Clinton sees herself as a historical figure without which America cannot survive or Clinton is just another power-hungry junkie looking to line her pockets installed by another corrupt political party, it may be voters in the nine primaries and caucuses left to be decided want their voices heard and their votes counted.

Americans can be funny about hanging onto the last vestiges of democracy.

It may be the $100 million-plus amassed by the Clintons about which they are close-lipped will see Hillary Clinton destroyed as a nominee in the next eight weeks. See How Hillary and Bill Clinton Parlayed Decades of Public Service into Vast Wealth, (Gross, Fortune) and (Jilana, AlterNet).

It may be Clinton's militarism will finally come to light: "From her First Lady of Arkansas days on, she has been a gung ho supporter of nearly every military adventure that the United States has undertaken – until, as always happens, they take such a sour turn that there is no percentage in continuing to defend them," notes Andrew Levine at CounterPunch.

Or Hillary's racism.

It may well be people are striving for better than let-your-children-fight-my-wars Hillary Clinton and the fix of the Democratic Presidential Primary by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and will not vote for Clinton, should she be successfully installed as the nominee.

I am striving for better, and I won't vote for Hillary Clinton under any circumstances.

Advice to Hillary Clinton: Reign in Wasserman Schultz and Dem. Insiders

Only Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party could screw up a general election against Donald Trump.

Facing an outright fascist like Trump, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz decided the most effective communication to emit this week is to blast Bernie Sanders and the millions of Sanders advocates without whom any Democratic Party nominee is doomed.

Sanders, a life-long civil rights activist, understands the principle that without the people, especially the under-30 folks, (aka our future), no elected representative enjoys legitimacy or delivers effective public policy.

Public policy takes on heightened significance when considered in light of the fact our planet likely has passed a tipping point in the climatic change forcing event in which we load our atmosphere with emissions from fossil fuels, (with consequences made worse by associated feedbacks), (Hansen et al, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics).

Republicans have no regard for democratic, classical liberal niceties such as voting rights, one person/one vote principles, (Reynolds v. Sims (1964)), popular support, and open and transparent government, all of which are needed to combat suicidal special interests as a polity.

Republicans today seek at all levels of government to undermine popular influence on public policy, and at the same time voice support for a statist, authoritarian jurisprudence explicitly rejecting individual rights. And of course Republicans reject climatic science, and seek to eliminate the very mention of the topic in state government ruled by this science-adverse and corrupt Party, (Bence, WUWM Radio).

So, Hillary Clinton advocate and surrogate, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, decided the wisest course forward is to undermine democracy in the already deformed Democratic Party Presidential Primary, and more explicitly repeat the lies coming out of Nevada in an attempt to directly undermine Bernie Sanders' run for the presidency.

That Sanders is a champion for sustainable energy is not lost on Bernie Sanders' supporters, (Sanders on Energy Policy, Sanders on Climate Change).

Anyone telling you the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency is over is kidding you. In eight weeks anything can happen, and Hillary Clinton and the DNC would not be trying to undermine Sanders if they believed otherwise.

Clinton and Wasserman Schultz should be focusing their energies on the future of our planet, not so much on defaming supporters of the guy championing science and the biosphere against lunatic-fringe special interests.

Sanders Is the Clear Choice for President

Citizen cheers Bernie Sanders at Southern California rally
on May 17 2016, (Bernie 2106).

"Well, let me be as clear as I can be. We are in till the last ballot is cast," said Bernie Sanders last night after another victory in Oregon, (Kaplan, NYT).

Millions are with Bernie Sanders.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not of them.

Wasserman Schultz rigged the Democratic Primary race for Hillary Clinton, and has called for the elimination of open primaries, (Mal Contends).

Americans casting their votes under the impression that one vote equals one vote are mistaken.

Superdelegates, or Party commissars, decide the nominee, and that's the way Clinton and Wasserman Schultz want it.

Sanders blasted the DNC for its anti-democratic stance last night.

"In the year since he launched a long-shot campaign, Sanders has taken on the Democratic Party establishment and won more than 45 percent of the pledged delegates to this July’s Democratic National Convention."

Speaking to his supporters in Southern California, Sanders had a blunt message for top party officials."

'I say to the leadership of the Democratic Party: Open the doors. Let the people in. The other option for the Democratic Party, a sad and tragic option, is to maintain its status quo structure and be a party with limited participation and limited energy,' said Sanders, (Bernie 2106).

Wisconsin has seen the consequences of option two.

Sanders is much better on the issues. And better on the democratic process, a significant feature of American elections to many. Clinton and Wasserman Schultz are awful.

If Clinton thinks Bernie Sanders supporters will stand with her in the event of a Clinton victory at the July convention, she's as crazy as Wasserman Schultz.