Vote for the Liar, Cheat and Whore Against Fascism

With him - Picture from 1932 in
Berlin, Germany shows
a large handshake billboard
for President Hindenburg
that says "With Him."
Source: The History Place (1996)

Update: 12.25.2018: Approaching the second year of Donald Trump whom Hillary Clinton bequeathed to America. Thank you for that, Hillary Clinton.
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Across America there is apprehension about Hillary Clinton's weak candidacy against Donald Trump at the beginning of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, (CommonDreams).

Will Trump be defeated at the polls?

—'I sure hope so, I don't know,' is the most common and thoughtful response among political junkies in Dane County Wisconsin whom I have canvassed.

To be sure Hillary Clinton is a miserable, lying corporate whore, one whom this site is endorsing.

The X factor in the 2016 presidential election is what Chris Matthews calls the Scranton to Oshkosh vote: The heavily white, working-class and stupid vote.

Michael Moore calls it the Pittsburgh to Green Bay vote.

Magical, partial to mythical reenactments and beer, the white working class has a more authentically libertarian and less racist cousin in the rural American South.

With him, with her

This demographic is home to the permanent fascist base of American culture.

It gives beer a bad name, and its mindlessness is a defamation of democracy.

The white working class will decide whether Donald Trump is elected president.

Trump is Trump.

No decent American should vote for the slime.

Opposing Fascism Means Supporting Hillary Clinton Now

Watching the Republican National Convention is an exercise in observing crooks, liars, cheats and the rituals of the white fascistic party.

As a lifelong Wisconsin progressive and avid Bernie Sanders supporter, am now working to elect Hillary Clinton as president.

Not that anyone particularly gives a shit, but working for the election of Hillary Clinton is something I must do and state publicly.

Watching my franchise as a voter effectively veer in the status of bystander is something I cannot do.

The Republican Party resembles nothing so much now as a suicidal, racist cult.

Delegate Math Favors Surging Bernie Sanders

By James Rottering (Facebook)

In the heavily front-loaded Democratic primary of 2008, a number of delegates equal to 89% of the total needed to win nomination had already been awarded by the end of Super Tuesday (February 5th). 1,886 delegates had been awarded, 2,118 needed to win. Clinton was about 45.5% of the way to the ultimate goal, and Obama was slightly behind at 43.5%.

Here in 2016, as of today only 54% of the total delegates needed to win have been awarded. (1,290 out of 2,382 needed). Clinton is 31.4% of the way to the finish line, while Bernie Sanders is 22.75% of the way there.

After tomorrow's contests (FL, IL, NC, MO, OH), 83.42% of the total delegates needed will have been awarded.

It won't be until after NEXT Tuesday's contests (AZ, ID, UT (March 22)) that we finally get to the same point in the 2016 primary where we were on Super Tuesday 2008: 89% of the total delegates needed to secure nomination will have been awarded.

Bernie Burns Hillary and Pollsters

Hillary Clinton is the Scott Walker of national politics: Identifying special interests with big money and pitching 'give me money, I'll do whatever you want.'

But the desperation of the coronate-Hillary Clinton-now project is now apparent.

As noted at In These Times, (Daalder):

Michigan represents the largest turnaround yet. RealClearPolitics’ average anticipated a Clinton win by 21.4 percent.

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight noted that, before Sanders' [Michigan] ’victory, 'the candidate with the largest lead to lose a state in our database of well-polled primaries and caucuses was Walter Mondale, who led New Hampshire by 17.1 percentage points but lost to Gary Hart in 1984.' Now, that candidate is Hillary Clinton.

The Democratic Party primary map is now Sanders-favorable, (Mother Jones), after the front-loaded southern states have already held their elections.

Look for Hillary dirty tricks and an effort to demonize Sanders, ala Clinton's work against Obama in 2008.

Sanders' win in Michigan demonstrates his FDR-Ike-LBJ domestic populism is alive and well, and the Hillary Clinton's corporatist sell-out is increasingly viewed with distrust.

Laurence Shoup traces The Clinton Dynasty and the Shadow Government (subscription required) at Z-Magazine noting the Clintons sucked up some $ 3 billion mainly from banks, hedge funds, securities firms and insurance companies.

This $ 3 billion tracks the 40 years since Bill launched his first run for Congress in 1974, and the Clintons peddled their idea in the 1970s of enlisting Wall Street in the Clinton's corporatist vision of the Democratic Party.

"The Clintons’ fundraising operation — $3 billion amassed by one couple, working in tandem for more than four decades — has no equal," notes Shoup in a piece in the Washington Post last year.

Throw in the neo-cons with whom the Clintons are politically intimate, and a Clinton foreign policy would see a closer allegiance with the savage Sunni dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, Egypt ... , and the ultra-rightwingers in Israel. This means more war.

So Clinton has major elements of Wall Street and the military-industrial complex behind her candidacy. This fact helps explain why congressional democrats are humiliating themselves on the national stage.

However, as Hillary Clinton's me-or-the-highway approach to American politics becomes more apparent with each passing day, even superdelegate sell-outs in Congress and Democratic Party hacks will look askance at overruling the popular vote for Bernie Sanders in June.

To overrule the American voters would split the Democratic Party and throw the general election to Donald Trump. Hillary's sense of entitlement may allow this, but not even elected congressional Democrats would abide.

By the way, Hillary Clinton's unfavorable v. favorable ratings is at minus-12.3 points, (Huffington Post). Don't see that changing much after 40 years of sleaze.

Road to the Democratic nomination, (Mother Jones)

Why Hillary Clinton Should Suspend Her Campaign Now

Hillary Clinton has unfavorable v. favorable ratings of minus-14 points, (Huffington Post).

The American people have lingering trust issues with Hillary Clinton.

The critical 18-29 demographic think Clinton is corrupt and dishonest.

So, naturally the DNC and surrogates today are blaring March 15 is the day we get-behind-Hillary Clinton, no matter that most of United States would not have voted including New York, most of the north and the west coast, (Democratic Strategist).

Why the rush? Why call for excluding most Democratic-voting citizens in their right to choose their president.

Because the Democratic Party primary map from March 15 forward is Bernie Sanders-favorable, and the probe of the "FBI Director James Comey, an experienced prosecutor and consummate professional with some 100-150 agents investigating the Democratic front-runner, the Clinton Foundation, and (presumably) several of Hillary’s closest aides: Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jake Sullivan," continues (Lipson, Real Clear Politics) and will eat at Hillary trust issues.

In May 2008 Hillary's ambitions led her to a different conclusion: "Hillary Rodham Clinton says she will remain in the presidential race 'until there's a nominee,'" (Huffington Post).

So what is the surrogates' song in 2016, (Hillary won't say it herself), that all Democrats and progressives must jump on general election footing behind Hillary.

One reason to get behind Hillary is it would be very difficult for the FBI and U.S. DoJ to release the results of the probe, or prosecute, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for any crimes.

Hillary Clinton can put all of this to rest in two ways: One, issue a statement that the Democratic Primary must continue until there's a nominee.

Two, do the best the thing for country and suspend her campaign now and save the republic a lot of trouble.

Dem Insiders Pushing Coronation Against Reality

Democratic Party primary delegate totals from 2008 show similar
numbers to 2016. Chart by James Rotering of Wisconsin

Update: Daily Kos wants all to rally around the neocon, Wall Street-flunky, and TPP-advocating Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton by March 15.

Kos in a posting this weekend also lays out rules amounting to no not-approved criticism of Hillary for its site.

And pay no mind to Bernie Sanders outperforming the underwater Hillary in the general election.
 
Kos can jam it.
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See also Hillary does the work of the oligarchs, instilling hopelessness, discouraging thinking and constraining demands of the people, (The Politics of Hopelessness).
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As Hillary Clinton implausibly pushes the message the Democratic Primary for the nominee for the presidency is over, voting in the Democratic Party primary is falling off.

As the chart at top indicates, the race, to borrow a football analogy, is in the first quarter if actual people are the measure.

The national delegate map shows most of the northern United States, the entire west coast and that large segment of folks in the northeast  called New York have yet to vote.

So it's odd to read the apparent puzzlement of Democrats over declining Democratic voter totals as "2.6 million fewer Democrats voted in the first 15 primaries and caucuses," (NPR).

To Queen Hillary, not so fast. Let voters
decide, and pass the word to the DNC
Party insiders should put a lid on it.

It may be the Democratic National Committee's attempted rigging the presidential primary to coronate Hillary Clinton is a factor in declining voter interest in an election cycle unlike any other in modern U.S history.

The editor of Wisconsin's progressive daily newspaper is repeating, for reasons surpassing understanding, his November 2015 call for all Democratic-voting citizens to "get real," and fall in line behind the neocon, Wall Street, TPP-advocating (for it before she was against it, (CNN)), lock-up-the-'super-predators' queen.

It may also be that a critical demographic—the 18-29 year-old voters—whom Bernie Sanders is dominating should be assured their votes will count and will not be overridden by superdelegates, party insiders who may yet screw this race up.

It's anecdotal but nevertheless this 18-29 generation to an extent greater than others sees the system, understandably, as inherently corrupt. It is.

Whether Democratic Party insiders are contemplating cutting ties to Clinton because the "U.S. Justice Department has given immunity from prosecution to a State Department employee who helped set up and manage the private email server Hillary Clinton used for her work as secretary of state," (Goldman, Post), sending the message to voters the race is over, (as against reality), is pretty fracking stupid.

Nicole Wallace Hits Hillary-DNC Rigging of Dem Presidential Primary

Moments before Donald Trump delivered his victory speech in the Nevada Republican presidential caucuses last night, Nicole Wallace laid out a problem the Democratic Party presidential nominee faces in the general election campaign, if the nominee is Hillary Clinton.

Wallace, a former White House director of communications in the Bush adminstration and a panelist on MSNBC covering the Nevada Republican caucus results, pointed out the Republican Party presidential primary race is set up to award the nomination to the winner of the popular vote and individual states, and the Democratic National Committee is rigged to coronate Hillary Clinton.

Instead of a grassroots favorite like Donald Trump who appears to be the presumptive Republican nominee now, Democratic Party bosses and insiders are working to frustrate Democratic voters by substituting the will of the high number of superdelegate insiders for the American people who show up at Democratic Party primary and caucuses to cast their votes.

"Most Republicans look at the superdelegate process as a corrupt way for Hillary Clinton and [Democratic] Party leaders to put their finger on the scales against a guy in Bernie Sanders who most grassroots liberals adore. The fact that our [Republican] process plays out without Party bosses is something that I would expect liberals to find a nice thing about the Republican presidential [nominating] process," said Wallace.

Putting aside the fact RNC Chair Reince Priebus is an empty suit, Wallace is spot-on.

Guaranteeing Democratic Party voters, in Wisconsin (April 5 presidential primary), Ohio (March 15), Florida (March 15) and Pennsylvania (April 26) for example, their votes count in the Democratic Party presidential primary would be nice, and democratic.

Telling these same voters the DNC, Hillary Clinton and surrogates will be the deciders is not nice and corrupt, and if these facts are effectively communicated by the GOP could be catastrophic for the Democratic Party.

Consider post-Citizens United (see Justice Stevens' narrow concurrence), the dystopian world of dark money, the Koch brothers, congressional corruption, the Republican-led U.S. Senate improperly blocking a a presidential nominee to SCOTUS, ("the Senate has no pre-nomination role at all in the appointment process," (Fallone, Marquette University Law School) and
(SCOTUSblog Obama, A Responsibility I Take Seriously); and still the Republican Party occupies the high ground on the democratic nature of their party's presidential nominating campaign.

Only Hilliary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz can surrender the high ground to the Republicans.

Democratic Party May Win in a Rout, or Blow a Historic Election

A Common Effort, or Super-Delegates Will Take It from Here

The Democratic Party should facilitate organizing on a community level—Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Cleveland and so forth—as state Republican governments around the country continue their goal of decimating local democracy.

Local democracy is not just a critical democratic value in itself, it's the key to the composition of the U.S. Senate. See Dreier at The American Prospect, rating Wisconsin number two as a likely party flip of a senate seat in what appears to be a likely Democratic Party retaking of the U.S. Senate.

Think fast, what is the DNC and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin doing right now to facilitate voting in Milwaukee and Racine?

About the only thing that can stop a progressive rout in November is a foolish DNC coronation of Hillary Clinton, telling voters their voices, local organizing efforts and work for their preferred candidates are not needed and super-delegates will take it from here.

This is precisely the message Hillary's lackeys delivered this weekend as Harry Reid engineered a narrow victory in Hillary's alleged impenetrable Nevada firewall.

The folks in Wisconsin (April 5 presidential primary), Ohio (March 15), Florida (March 15) and Pennsylvania (April 26) may not appreciate the communications from the DNC, Hillary Clinton and surrogates their states' presidential primary votes won't count.

If you think general election migrations from nominally Democratic Party-voting people to Donald Trump in a general election are merely anecdotal, you're kidding yourself.

The DNC message to voters to fuck off is not a compelling nor winning message for president and down-ticket in a general election that should be a rout, (Snell, Washington Post).

This is the message of the weekend and apparently for Super Tuesday (March 1) being sent priority mail to a volatile and less-than-trusting electorate.

And Hillary, your name ain't the greatest, you need to be doing it cleaner and better than the other guy, (Fournier, The Atlantic).

Bernie's Plan Will Work

Update: Poll: Trump beats Clinton head-to-head. "Bernie Sanders is closing the Democratic primary gap and is stronger than Hillary Clinton in the general election," David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said in a statement.

Hillary Clinton knows the number of frack-you cards sent her way via the American people. They don't like her decades-long embrace of Mega-banks and Health Insurance corporations over people.

What Hillary Clinton will never get is all minorities and the white working class want is an equal shot, what they will get under Bernie Sanders. From Paul Krugman in a graph:

The clock is ticking on Clinton's latest big lie she's a friend of the working class, and she wants the game called now because of the very real possibility of her Big Con being blown.

Sanders Takes 48 Percent in Clinton 'Firewall;' D.C. Insiders Call Game

The Williams family is pictured above. Douglas
Williams penned an open letter to John Lewis in
In These Times: "The movement that you, my
grandmother, Senator Sanders and
countless thousands were a part
of was the largest grassroots movement
for social, political and economic change
that this country has ever seen.
It was a movement that was bigger
than any one participant in it; a movement that,
at its best, was unapologetically radical and
driven by the Black working class.
We should live every moment in awe
and praise of all of those people
and not sweep them under the rug
when it is politically expedient.
Hillary Clinton ain’t worth that."

Bernie Sanders takes 48 percent in Nevada, Clinton's acclaimed firewall, and Party insiders are telling the world the game is over for the Democratic Party campaign for the nomination for the presidency.

Who knew two caucuses and one primary make an entire 2016 Democratic Primary? (2106 Primary Schedule)

One slight omission in the Clinton spin, dutifully reported by Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), is the fact Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly leads in the total of actual people who voted in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.

Voters may matter in the Democratic Party campaign for the nomination of  the presidency, but not if Hillary and Party insiders get their way.

How do you think this fact would play in a general election against a Donald Trump?

This is Clintonomics math. The same math that is the foundation of the Clinton myth.

Notes Joshua Frank at CounterPunch:

As economist Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst explains in Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity, Clintonomics was not all it was cracked up to be. 'The distribution of wealth in the US became more skewed than it had at any time in the previous forty years,' he argues. 'No question, an increasing number of US jobs began to be outsourced at an unprecedented rate as well.'

'Unlike Clinton, Bush is unabashed in his efforts to mobilize the power of government to serve the wealthy,' he continues. 'But we should be careful not to make too much of such differences in the public stances of these two figures, as against the outcomes that prevail during their terms of office … the ratio of wages for the average worker to the pay of the average CEO rising astronomically from 113-to-1 in 1991 under Bush-1 to 449-to-1 when Clinton left office in 2001.'

As for the future, consider Andrew Levine's analysis:

Why would [Hillary] think she needs Obama now?

The short answer is: the South Carolina primary. If the gods are merciful and Hillary gets schlonged there, her chances of winning the nomination will be toast, no matter how many 'super delegates' she currently has in her pocket.

The slightly longer answer is that the Clintons don’t want all their years of flattering and cajoling black politicians to be for naught. They think that African Americans owe them; and indeed many of their notables do. But when the people those notables purport to represent start removing the scales from their eyes and/or if they start thinking of Hillary as a loser, the jig will be up: it will be plain to all that it was all a waste of time and effort.

African Americans in South Carolina forsook the Clintons before, in 2008, but at least that was for one of their own – sort of. If they do it again, it will be for a septuagenarian Jewish man with a Brooklyn accent. This must get Bill and Hillary’s goat.

The Clintons understand identity politics; Hillary is playing that game now to win the votes of women of a certain age. But they have always treated adversaries to their left with contempt. Thanks to the Sanders campaign, Hillary has lately found it expedient to strike leftish poses. Under the skin, though, the old animosities remain.

She and Bill simply cannot abide the thought of being beaten by a 'democratic socialist,' someone who espouses an up-dated version of the old fashioned liberal political line that the Clintons have been working their entire lives to eradicate. They are therefore pulling out all the stops. If that requires strategic extrusions of shameless Obamaphilia on Hillary’s part, so be it.

It wasn’t supposed to come to this. Weeks, even days, ago, the Clintons could reasonably hold fast to the belief that, like the poor (and for much the same reason), African Americans would always be with them.

Now, though, they are starting to wonder if they can trust anybody — black, brown or white — under thirty. They have reason to be concerned: black youths in South Carolina are fast becoming as lucid about the Clintons and Clintonism (Democratic Party style neoliberalism and liberal imperialism) as their white counterparts in Iowa and New Hampshire.

In view of the Clintons’ role in encouraging the mass incarceration of African American men, and their assault on the already feeble welfare state institutions that used to keep oppressed and impoverished African American communities on life support — and in light of their role in forging trade and industrial policies that have decimated the entire American working class — this was bound to happen eventually. But Hillary was counting on it not happening soon. The question now is whether consciousness can dawn quickly enough to throw her off her track.

One would think that she and her handlers could think of a better way to stave the inevitable off than by lauding Obama and vowing to continue his good work.

Hillary Clinton just is not worth that.

Lose with Hillary Clinton

While Hillary Clinton spent the 1960s working to elect Republicans—Nixon (1960) Goldwater (1964) and Rockefeller (1968)—to the presidency, Bernie Sanders was a civil rights activists, a leader in Chicago of the Congress of Racial Equality working to desegregate housing, also attending the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Faced with these facts and Clinton's smearing of Sanders' civil rights record, the Chicago Tribune (Skiba) straightened out the record this weekend and released a photo from its archives of a young Sanders being arrested at a South Side civil rights protest occurring just weeks before the March on Washington.

No comment from the Clinton campaign who instead is smearing Sanders for proposing New Deal and Great Society initiatives that used to be the foundation of the Democratic Party's platform.

After spending the 1960s working for Republicans, Clinton worked briefly as counsel in 1974 for the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal. During her tenure on the Judiciary Committee, Clinton alienated several other young progressive attorneys with her "self-absorbed" manner as described by one counsel.

Clinton with her husband spent the 1970s and 1980s advocating a corporatist Democratic Party vis a vis a working families Democratic Party, an effort that grew to fruition during the Clinton adminstration.

Now Clinton is questioning Sanders' bone fides as a Democrat prior to mounting evidence Clinton would lose a general election.

Notes Aaron Camp at The Progressive Midwesterner:

Sara Goldrick-Rab, who is a education policy and sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Goldrick-Rab is also a frequent user of Twitter, and she only needed one tweet to make a compelling case for how Bernie is a more electable presidential candidate than Hillary Clinton:

It's not personal Hillary, the American people just don't trust and like you, (Bloomberg Politics).

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

Thank you, Michelle Alexander at The Nation.

New Voting Rights Lawsuit Against Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP

Rick Hasen has the story of Clinton attorney, Clinton general counsel Mark Elias, still carrying the fight against Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans' anti-voting rights laws in a new federal suit.

Good for Hillary. Voting rights are the foundation of America as Republicans are the shame.

"These [Republican-enacted] measures were intended to burden, abridge, and deny, and have had and will have the effect of burdening, abridging, and denying, the voting rights of Wisconsinites generally and of African-American, Latino, young, and/or Democratic voters in Wisconsin in particular," reads the complaint. (pp 1-2)