Support Bernie Sanders, Hope Insider Dems Come to Their Senses

Hillary Clinton is hopelessly corrupt and out-of-touch

Now is the time to support Bernie Sanders and work up to the Democratic Convention, the week of July 25, to help super-delegates come to their senses. Super-delegates are unbound and cannot vote until the Convention.

The media has anointed Hillary Clinton after the corporate media conducted secret phone calls with Clinton super-delegates yesterday, which both the media and the super-delegates will not disclose in detail. Notes Gleen Greenwald:

Perfect End to Democratic Primary: Anonymous Superdelegates Declare Winner Through Media
Last night, Associated Press – on a day when nobody voted – surprised everyone by abruptly declaring the Democratic Party primary over and Hillary Clinton the victor. The decree, issued the night before the California primary in which polls show Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a very close race, was based on the media organization’s survey of 'superdelegates': the Democratic Party’s 720 insiders, corporate donors and officials whose votes for the presidential nominee count the same as the actually elected delegates. AP claims that superdelegates who had not previously announced their intentions privately told AP reporters that they intend to vote for Clinton, bringing her over the threshold. AP is concealing the identity of the decisive superdelegates who said this.

...

This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization – incredibly – conceals. The decisive edifice of superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it’s only fitting that their nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward and undemocratic sputter.

Clinton accepted the latest attempt to impose a corporate-owned subsidiary onto the United States, after feigning surprise. Typical deceitful Hillary Clinton. You don't have to settle for a Clinton.

From the Bernie Sanders campaign:

Tuesday marks the largest set of primaries and caucuses in the Democratic nomination process with six states voting for president and 694 pledged delegates up for grabs.

Pundits and the political press want to call this race early before every last person votes. That threatens to suppress voter turnout in New Jersey, California, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and New Mexico. But we’re not going to let that happen. On Tuesday, we’re going to defy the pundits once more and reach for the kind of high voter turnout that will again shock the establishment.

We won’t settle for the status quo. We won’t settle for a rigged economy held in place by a corrupt system of campaign finance. We won’t settle for a fossil fuel industry hell-bent on harming our planet to pad their profits. We won’t settle for a health system that doesn’t cover everyone. In California, a high voter turnout won’t just mean a victory for our movement.

With large numbers of young people hitting the polls, we’ll boost so many Democrats in major primaries that right-wing Republicans will be locked out of general election ballots for some of the most important House and Senate races of the fall.

Members of the media and political establishment may have anointed Secretary Clinton from day one, but we know that this race is going to carry on until the delegates cast ballots at the convention in Philadelphia.

We should let the voters decide who they want the Democratic nominee to be rather than having the media decide for them. I am asking you to continue to stand with Bernie in pushing for the political revolution.

Bernie Sanders Vows to Fight, Clinton Toes Corporate Line

Bernie Sanders fights on, having denied Hillary Clinton
the requisite pledged delegates to clinch the
pre-convention nomination

The life-long social justice worker, Bernie Sanders and millions of Americans stopped the corporate media and the Democratic Party from installing Hillary Clinton as the presidential nominee before the Democratic Convention.

That Clinton was halted from winning the requisite number of pledged delegates to clinch the nomination, (including the total from D.C. next week Clinton will have won less than 2,300 of the needed 2,382 pledged delegates), is a fact the corporate media avoids reporting.

That would be all of the corporate media and don't believe what you read, or hear on The Rachel Meadow Show, for example

Bernie Sanders and Clinton will vow for the votes of superdelegates at the Democratic National Convention the week of July 25. This is another fact you won't read or hear from the corporate media.

Some seven weeks is a long time in American politics, hence the desperate Clinton effort to be anointed as the presumptive nominee, while the FBI is investigating Clinton's Scott Walker-esque secret computer server, router and computers on which Clinton conducted official business while serving as Secretary of State, (2009-2013). A negative law enforcement report is difficult after the media confers presumptive nominee status.

The corporate media decided that although superdelegates are unpledged and can only cast their preference at the Convention, superdelegates will be polled and counted by the corporate media in anonymous journalistic conventions through secret contacts.

The corporate media is now the authority of establishing the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, not the Democratic National Committee, a practice this goes unchallenged and unquestioned in the corporate media.

"The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization – incredibly – conceals. The decisive edifice of superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes," notes Glenn Greenwald reporting facts that will also not be repeated by the corporate media, (The Intercept).

Sanders has vowed to fight on, as he should. "[W]e are going to take the fight for social, economic and racial justice to Philadelphia. We will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate," Sanders told 1,000s in Santa Monica last night.

Clinton, the Democratic Party's corporate establishment and the corporate media don't get it.

For Hillary Clinton, her lust for the nomination has been animated by a quest for power and ego which drove Clinton to support the segregationist Barry Goldwater, among other unsavory pursuits.

For Sanders, the nomination is simply a means to achieve the promise of social justice.

From the Sanders campaign:

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – To chants of “Bernie or Bust,” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders told a roaring crowd of supporters on Tuesday that he will carry his White House campaign and their fight for a political revolution to this summer’s Democratic National Convention.

“The struggle continues,” he declared to the loudest cheers of the night in the climax of the speech.

He said he would campaign in next Tuesday’s final primary in Washington, D.C., the last contest in the nationwide series of primaries and caucuses that began last winter in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“Then we are going to take the fight for social, economic and racial justice to Philadelphia,” he told the 3,300 people packed inside an airplane hangar. “We will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate.”

The late-night crowd was dominated by young people who have been a major key to the success of Sanders’ campaign. “I am enormously optimistic about the future of our country when so many young people have come on board and understand that our vision of social justice, economic justice, racial justice and environmental justice must be the future of America,” the senator from Vermont told the rally.

He spoke about the upcoming general election and defeating Donald Trump. “Our campaign from day one has understand that we will not allow right-wing Republicans to control our government. And that is especially true with Donald Trump as the Republican candidate,” Sanders said. “The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry who insults Mexicans, who insults Muslims and women and African Americans. We will not allow Donald Trump to become president of the United States.”

But he said the grassroots campaign that gave him victories in 22 states has another goal.

“Our mission is more than just defeating Trump it is transforming our country,” Sanders said. That mission includes ending wealth and income inequality and junking the corrupt campaign finance system that props up a rigged economy. “Democracy is not about billionaires buying elections.” He said it includes reforming the criminal justice system, breaking up big bans, providing health care as a right to all citizens, reforming our broken immigration system and making the billionaires and profitable corporations pay their fair share in taxes.

“What this is about is millions of people from coast to coast knowing that we can do much, much better as a nation,” Sanders said. “Our fight is to transform this country and to understand that we are in this together, understand that all of what we believe is what the majority of American people believe and to understand that the struggle continues.”

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.

Exclusive: The Secret History of Superdelegates

How the Democratic Party degrades voters' votes, it's an
undemocratic thing, (Marcetic, In These Times).

Superdelegates are super-undemocratic.

Branko Marcetic at In These Times has the story.

Love to see Marcetic as a guest on MSNBC this week.

Love to see the Democratic Party ditch this anti-people tool of the special interests who apparently dictate to the Democratic Party.

Hillary Cannot Win

It's good to see the Politico acknowledging what progressive bloggers have been saying for weeks.

That is: Hillary Clinton cannot win the nomination, and both her continued negative attacks and her seizing the nomination would be a disaster for the Democratic nominee in the general election. Writes Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen:

One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning. Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency.

Unless Clinton is able to at least win the primary popular vote — which also would take nothing less than an electoral miracle — and use that achievement to pressure superdelegates, she has only one scenario for victory. An African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else.

People who think that scenario is even remotely likely are living on another planet.

Obama's backers include political progressives, casual political segments from all demographics, and the under-29 vote, all of which would feel betrayed by a Hillary-brokered win overturning the will of the electorate.

The remaining weeks will see what occurs first: A political witch, shunned by voters, deciding to step aside and nodding to historical forces demanding change; or the mainstream media (MSM) becoming substantive and insightful.

Writes Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen:

The notion of the Democratic contest being a dramatic cliffhanger is a game of make-believe.

The real question is why so many people are playing. The answer has more to do with media psychology than with practical politics. Journalists have become partners with the Clinton campaign in pretending that the contest is closer than it really is. Most coverage breathlessly portrays the race as a down-to-the-wire sprint between two well-matched candidates, one only slightly better situated than the other to win in August at the national convention in Denver.

Two things are certain: The perceived good will and veracity of Hillary Clinton have taken massive bruising; and the MSM talking heads have been revealed again as shallow and foolish.

A Desperate Hillary Is Dangerous

Does anyone doubt the nature of this woman now?

AmericaBlog lays it out:

1. Destroy Obama so that the Superdelegates overthrow him and give her the nomination.

2. Destroy Obama so that, even if he wins the nomination, he will be so severely damaged that he loses the election, and the day after the election the Clinton people say "see, we told you that you should have picked us," and four years later, Hillary will be able to run again and get the nomination, if because of nothing else, because the party will feel sorry for "cheating" her out of of it this time.

If we lose the election in the fall, it will be all Hillary's fault. It's time for Howard Dean and the party leaders to step in and stop Hillary before she starts a civil war (and one is coming) and destroys our party.

And from the Times:

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said they had spent recent days making the case to wavering superdelegates that Mr. Obama’s association with Mr. Wright would doom their party in the general election.
That argument could be Mrs. Clinton’s last hope for winning this contest.

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.

Obama Campaign E-mail on The Facts

... Last night, Senator Clinton used up her last, best chance to cut appreciably into Barack Obama's elected delegate lead.

She came up short.

In fact, she barely made a dent. At most, she picked up a net gain of 12 delegates -- less than our gain, for example, in Colorado (where we gained 17) or Kansas (where we gained 14). Her gain in Pennsylvania was less than half of our gain in Virginia, where we added to our lead by 25 delegates.

But there is one measure by which her campaign's gains are real. ...

Here's how it breaks out:

After Pennsylvania, we have a lead of at least 159 elected delegates earned through all of the primaries and caucuses so far. We have a total of at least 1493 pledged delegates.

Meanwhile, we've been rapidly gaining ground among the so-called superdelegates (elected leaders and party officials who get a vote to choose our nominee), cutting Senator Clinton's lead from more than 100 early this year to less than 25.

We have a total of 238 publicly committed superdelegates.

The total number of delegates needed to secure the nomination is 2,024. That means we are only 293 delegates away from securing the nomination.

In less than two weeks, we'll square off in the key battleground states of North Carolina and Indiana, when there will be as many delegates at stake as there were last night in Pennsylvania.

To grow our significant lead and close out this race, we must remain competitive in these contests and the 7 others that will follow. ...

Pennsylvania was considered a state tailor-made for Senator Clinton -- she was always expected to win, and we trailed by as much as 25 points in the weeks leading up to the election.

But thanks to people like you, Barack gained support among key voters in the face of long odds and unrelenting negativity from Senator Clinton, and kept the margin close enough that her delegate gain was insignificant.

Indeed, the only surprising result from Pennsylvania is how much Barack was able to improve his standing among key voter groups since the Ohio primary.
Among white voters, Obama narrowed the gap by 6 points. Among voters over 60, he nearly cut the gap in half, from 41 points to 24 points. Meanwhile, we continued to run strong where we have all along -- for example, winning voters ages 18-24 with over 65% of the vote.

Barack campaigned hard in Pennsylvania. He talked about his plans to stand up to the special interests and bring people together so that we can change Washington to turn our economy around, make sure that every American has quality health care, and bring this misguided war to an end. ...

Bernie Sanders Should Stay and Fight

Bernie Sanders for president because our country and
our future are worth fighting for.

The failure of the corporate political press, emphatically MSNBC, to report Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC crafted the Democratic Presidential Primary to coronate Hillary Clinton ought not deter Bernie Sanders' run for the presidency.

Nor should the fact that the DNC has stacked the deck against Sanders at the Democratic National Convention by installing Clinton loyalists in key committees, (US Uncut).

Nor should the fact that the DNC employs Party commissars, aka superdelegates, precisely to halt progressive political campaigns like Bernie Sanders'.

Hillary Clinton has publicly trumpeted her amassed superdelegates since last August, effectively telling Democratic Primary voters the race is over, (Halperin, Epstein, Aug. 28, 2015; (BloombergPolitics)), months before the Iowa Caucuses and 11 months before the July 2016 Democratic Party Presidential Convention.

Bernie Sanders' supporters decided they would cast their preference in this republic anyway, the heck with Clinton's insiders and myriad Party careerists' support. Suckers for democracy are we.

Let's assume the Democratic Party's nominee against the lunatic Donald Trump is a genuine general election, and not prearranged theater like a wrestling match where the bad guy makes a lot of noise and throws the match to the good guy.

If Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC decide large swaths of American voters are neither welcome nor relevant to the Convention, and the evidence is such a decision has already been made, then Bernie Sanders, denied a fair shot at the nomination, should bolt in late July and make an independent or third party run for the presidency.

It's a democratic thing, and a welcome frack-you card to a corrupt and anti-democratic Democratic Party.

Racketeers, Hacks and Followers

The Greenpeace A.E. Bates thermal airship flies over Seattle,
Washington on March 25, 2016, urging Hillary Clinton
to reject fossil fuel money in her campaign.
Photo by Marcus Donner, Greenpeace.

From Greenpeace: "According to data compiled by Greenpeace’s research department, Secretary Clinton’s campaign and the Super PAC supporting her have received more than $4.5 million from the fossil fuel industry during the 2016 election cycle. Eleven registered oil and gas industry lobbyists have bundled over One million dollars to her campaign"

But Hillary Clinton persists in her lies, assuring all of her noble intentions, as congressional democrats fall in line. The latest: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), (Madison.com).

Baldwin fails to note in her piece Sanders consistently outperforms Clinton in match-ups against Repulbican general-election opponents, concluding nevertheless, "To me, the choice is clear. I voted early for Hillary this week. On Tuesday, I hope you will vote for her, too. There is simply too much at stake."

Not persuasive, and a worse argument than Wisconsin citizens have a right to expect from Baldwin as Sanders has a consistent progressive record, and Clinton certainly does not. Baldwin certainly knows Sanders is the progressive, civil rights activist in this campaign against the corporatist Clinton who on the campaign has moved towards Sanders' positions across the board.

As Rob Ganson put it this morning: "A note for (Wisconsin) superdelegates. Superdelegates who wait for the primary and reflect the vote of their constituents are representatives. Those who pledge their super-duper votes prior to their primary are racketeers," (Facebook).

Or one might say, hacks or followers.

Politically, Tammy Baldwin has sold out. This is what D.C. does to people and it took Tammy Baldwin all of three years.

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.

National Democratic Party Looks to Sabotage Blue Wave — Targets Progressives, Sanders and New Voters

Democratic Party opposition to Bernie Sanders is
bizarre, and like Hillary Clinton is a disease from
which there is no cure.

Madison, Wisconsin — Lessons learned for the Democratic Party's 2016 elections for 2018 appear to include 'engineer Hillary Clinton clones, and attack Bernie Sanders and progressives.'

This is not a winning strategy.

In Texas, national Democrats are backing an anti-worker Republican, Joseph Kopser, against a popular ex-math teacher and grassroots activist, Mary Wilson, in the May 22 primary election, (Jilani, The Intercept).

If it seems crazy for national Democrats to be backing Republicans in a Democratic primaries, we should consider it's not much crazier than rigging the 2016 Democratic Primary for Hillary Clinton who promptly lost to the lunatic now in the White House.

Hillary Clinton trumpeted her amassed superdelegates in August 2015, telling Democratic Primary voters the race is over, (Halperin, Epstein, Aug. 28, 2015; (BloombergPolitics)), months before the Iowa Caucuses and 11 months before the July 2016 Democratic Party Presidential Convention.

In New York, Hillary Clinton this weekend has endorsed the odious Andrew Cuomo against Cynthia Nixon, endorsed by Our Revolution, in the Sept 13 primary election.

National Democrats are pushing a message progressives must be stopped at the party primary level.

Yesterday, NBC's Meet the Press featured a long interview with Bernie Sanders, reported on by Cameron Cawthorne in the Washington Free Beacon.

Sanders was interviewed by Chuck Dodd who ask about the progressive-Democratic Party divide:

'What do you say to national Democrats who say be careful of this nominating folks who are too progressive.'

'I think that they are wrong, and I think they are misreading where the American people are at,' Sanders said. 'You know, Chuck, many of the issues that I campaigned on two years ago—issues like Medicare for All, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, taking on the pharmaceutical industry, making public colleges and universities tuition free, legalizing marijuana—a few years ago those were seen as radical, fringy ideas.'

Sanders, who caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate, claimed that a majority of the American people now support those ideas, including an 'overwhelming percentage of Democrats.'

'I think what candidates all over the country are now beginning to understand is that it is more important to reach out to the people in your community, working people, the middle class, lower-income people, rather than just worry about what wealthy campaign contributors want you to say,' Sanders said.

'I think that's not only good public policy; I think that's good politics, and I think many of those candidates will win, because you are going to see voter turnout go up and a level of excitement that conservative Democrats don't raise,' Sanders added.

The DCCC has come under scrutiny from progressives and even more centrist Democrats during the 2018 election cycle for meddling in Democratic primaries across the country and choosing establishment Democrats for their 'Red to Blue' program. The organization has also come under fire for pressuring progressive candidates to drop out of highly contested races.

In particular, the DCCC targeted Texas Democratic congressional candidate Laura Moser by publishing opposition research against her on its website. While the DCCC received backlash from members of the media and Democratic activists, including former Obama administration staffers, the group stood by its strategy. That strategy backfired in March when Moser qualified for a May 22 primary runoff.

No messages from national Democrats saying, 'you know what? Bernie Sanders is right and we should listen.'

From Meet the Press:

ICYMI: @SenSanders joins #MTP to discuss "electability" for progressive candidates in 2018 and why he thinks they encourage voter turnout. https://t.co/GNj8blk9Bg

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) May 21, 2018

See the video of Bernie Sanders at Meet the Press here.

Transcript of Bernie Sanders May 20, 208 appearance on Meet the Press here.

Sanders Wins WV, Party Commissars Look to Correct Voters at Convention

Bernie Sanders won West Virginia last night as Clinton surrogates on MSNBC stood ready to downplay Sanders' latest victory.

That voters for Bernie Sanders will deny Hillary Clinton the 2,383 pledged delegates to secure the nomination before the convention is a fact blacked-out by the corporate media, especially MSNBC.

Clinton was anointed by the DNC in a rigged primary front-loaded for Clinton by DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz who advocates the abolition of open primaries, (The Hill, The Washington Examiner,, Bloomberg Politics, U.S. Uncut, Mal Contends).

In service to Clinton, the Democratic Party commissars, aka superdelegates who will cast delegate votes at the convention, are tabulated by the corporate press as already voted and been won by Hillary Clinton. In reality-land, the Democratic National Convention is held July 25-28 in Philadelphia.

The latest Clinton loss to Sanders exposes Clinton's weakness among actual voters, and assuming no deal has been made between allies Clinton and Trump, highlights the weakest potential Democratic Party nominee in recent history as Clinton alienates younger voters, (TruthDig).

There is an explanation for Clinton's weakness.

"There exists nary a war of aggression, a corporate privilege, a privatization of public services or an act against the common good that Mrs. Clinton has factually opposed in her years of public self-service," notes Rob Urie in CounterPunch.

These are inconvenient facts about Hillary Clinton that must be ignored.

Next Up for Dems: Arizona, Idaho and Utah

The message emitting from Hillary Clinton's campaign continues.

Same as the message from August 2015: Hillary Clinton is the one, and to borrow from the Clinton campaign's words fed to the media last year, "At the Democratic National Committee meeting in Minneapolis, where Clinton spoke on Friday, senior Clinton campaign officials are claiming that she has already secured one-fifth of the pledges needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination," (Bloomberg Politics).

The delegates-won total at this point is: Clinton-1,112 delegates, Sanders-806 delegates; with 2,382 delegates needed to win the nomination. The delegate figures exclude superdelegates who won't vote until the Democratic Party Convention held the week of July 25, 2016. (RealPolitics).

Next Tuesday are elections in Arizona (winner take all), Idaho and Utah. The first three of 29 more Democratic Party elections and caucuses Clinton's campaign and surrogates want the media to believe won't matter.

"The second half of the calendar appears more favorable to Sanders than the states that have voted so far," notes Nate Silver this morning. That's an understatement.

Silver wants to believe in a static contest, a bizarre notion that he cannot believe to be true.

Call me "unrealistic" as Clinton supporters are apt. But consider on June 7 alone California and New Jersey vote (along with four other states), and California and New Jersey alone comprise 39 percent of the 2,382 delegates needed to win.

The New Dealer-Ike-LBG-Great Society Bernie Sanders is in to stay. Last night shows why.

"Sanders continued to bolster his electability argument in tonight’s contests. Among groups that hold special significance in general elections, like young voters and independents, Sanders performed particularly well," notes Tom Cahill.

Sanders' domination of young voters was overwhelming last night again.

Obama Expands Delegate Lead over the Last Week

Obama gains 14 delegates in last seven days, demolishing any legitimate claim to a Hillary Clinton victory in last Tuesday's primaries (Texas and Vermont won by Obama, Ohio and Rhode Island won by Hillary).

But Hillary is not into legitimacy so very much.

Kos has a good run-down that I ran across in Americablog:

In the bigger picture, HRC('s) lead in super delegates stood at 97 one month ago today. Today her lead is only 32. HRC has gained 18 Super delegates in the past month while Senator Obama has gained 83. A month ago nearly 2 out of 3 declared super delegates were Clinton supporters now it is just over one half.

It's heartening to read that superdelegates know that overruling Obama's victory over Hillary would be suicide, and wrong.

Black Lives Matter Exposes Hillary's White Privilege, Vile Reaction Follows

What were you going to do, Dr. King? Wave
a magic wand, transport to the mountaintop
and tell the world what you see? ... Ridicule,
a proven COINTELPRO technique. "[I]n every
instance careful attention must be given to the
proposal to insure the targeted group is disrupted,
ridiculed, or discredited through the publicity
and not merely publicized ... ."

Black Lives Matter to Hillary Clinton [02/24/16]: "I am NOT a Superpredator"

Hillary Clinton is desperate to compile superdelegates on the down-low even as this Party insiders' firewall is coming under attack by Clinton's former Secretary of Labor (and others) and Clinton's we'll-take-it-from-here delegate math is being exposed as an disingenuous, inside baseball ploy, (Hass, In These Times).

As the South Carolina Democratic Primary approaches, another #Black Lives Matter activist exposes Hillary's deplorable record on race (video below), and the resulting vile reaction from the Clinton campaign supporters on social media instructs and repulses, (Progressive Midwesterner).

In sum, Hillary Clinton and her supporters suck.

Are we really surprised Clinton spent the 1960s as a Nixon-Goldwater-Rockefeller Republican while Bernie Sanders worked as a civil rights activist?

Hillary, it's time to consider suspending your campaign before you inflict and injure the black community even more than you have during President Clinton's years in office.

Yes, I know Democratic Party prosecutors across the country as well raced to catch up to the Tommy Thompsons, Scott Walkers, ALEC crime bills and the prison-industrial complex.

But not everybody did.

Hillary to Dems: Me or Noone

Update: Hillary running into the sewer to try to win

Update: See Hail Hillary Commander in Chief

Hillary's unlikely path to the nomination reveals well the selfish and Rovian aspects of Hillary that make her so toxic.

The remaining unaffiliated superdelegates ought to coalesce into a mini-caucus and tell Hillary: Stop the negative, fear-mongering tactics or face a loss now.

See It's official, Hillary only cares about Hillary for a synopsis of Hillary's trash.

Just off the phone with a retired, politically active Wisconsin woman (World War II mother) regarding Hillary. "I just don't want to put up with her for the next four years. I don't want to hear the sound of her voice. She's so involved with herself," she said.

Yep.

Sanders' Movement Kills Insiders, Can Realign American Politics

Not too late for Hillary Clinton to say 'bye-bye.'

Since declaring his run nearly a year ago, Bernie Sanders proclaimed his intention to build a powerful force for change in American politics and garner the nomination of the Democratic Party.

Sanders has achieved his first objective bringing in the younger voters who must turn out if the Republicans are to be defeated in the U.S. Senate and in a long shot defy the Republican-gerrymandered House.

Against this progressive movement, Nicholas Confessore notes today:

[h]undreds of the party’s 'superdelegates' have endorsed Mrs. Clinton, a signal of her broad support among the party’s power brokers. The Democratic National Committee now relies on Mrs. Clinton’s fund-raising to provide a fifth of its monthly income, an arrangement the Sanders campaign has criticized.

And Mrs. Clinton is well positioned to block any proposals she would not want to defend in a general election. In January, the party chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, appointed dozens of Clinton supporters and advisers to the three standing committees of the Democratic Party convention. Of 45 potential members submitted by Mr. Sanders, she appointed just three ...

Since tying Sanders in Iowa, Clinton and her surrogates have called for her coronation in a repulsive display of the very anti-democratic, moneyed interests-rule maladies that Sanders has openly denounced.

Clinton has moved dramatically towards the FDR-Ike-LBJ domestic policy consensus harnessed by Sanders, but Clinton remains a corporatist in her outlook.

"I think what divides us is the understanding on the part of millions of people who are supporting my candidacy that it really is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. We have to deal in very substantive way with income and wealth inequality. We need to understand that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, not to provide paid family and medical leave. We have to deal aggressively with a corrupt campaign finance system which allows big- money interests to buy elections. Those are areas I think of difference,” Sanders said Sunday on Meet The Press.

The argument advanced by Clinton's campaign that Sanders must now submit to the rigged Democratic Party primary is ludicrous.

To expect millions of Americans to disenfranchise their power is not only ridiculous, it is dangerous and risks a sure-thing victory of the off-the-charts Republican Party.

If come July 25-28 at the Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia and Sanders is not the nominee, Clinton will have to earn Sanders and millions of Americans' support by moving away from her neo-con and Wall Street alliances that Clinton still hides from scrutiny.

What Hillary Clinton does not get is these alliances are the problem.

Analysis Suggests Sanders Will Overtake Clinton

Excellent analysis in the Huffington Post by H.A. Goodman arguing why Bernie Sanders will overtake Hillary Clinton.

"[T]he same pundits lauding Clinton's lead currently in the polls are the same pundits who praised Clinton's lead in 2014 and 2007," notes Goodman.

Sanders without a SuperPac has risen faster and further to this point exceeding his own expectations, drawing huge crowds for months.

Clinton famously misread the 2007-08 campaign, ignoring the change election the American people wanted.

Now, Clinton is making similar mistakes, crowing about her pledged superdelegates, launching general election red-baiting and faux outrage attacks on Sanders while ignoring the fact the Democratic Party-voting electorate wishes to choose their next president.

Clinton wants a fixed primary.

Clinton is getting it through her ally, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who insists on scheduling only six sanctioned debates and threatening candidates not to appear in others as they try to take away the Democratic Presidential Primary from voters.

Six debates from the 25 in 2007-08.

The more democratic and open the primary, the more Clinton's perceived untrustworthy character, coziness with Wall Street and horrible record on foreign policy will doom Clinton's 2015-16 run.

Wasserman Schultz and Clinton realize Clinton v. Sanders means Sanders wins, and Clinton loses, hence the closed-off nature of the primary.

And Wall Street crashing the economy in 2007-08, who are Democratic voters going to trust, Sanders or Clinton?

To the extent the 2015-16 primary becomes a fix-is-in v. voters-decide campaign, Sanders wins.

Wasserman Schultz is quoted in a piece this week that she "wish[es] the Republicans would debate everyday" because they are so out of touch (WDET Radio, Wayne State University). Debating often is a democratic nicety Wasserman Schultz and Clinton deny the Democratic Party, an irony that did a fly-by over the DNC Chair.

Republicans are not the only ones out of touch.

Three Questions for Sanders-Clinton Debate in Milwaukee

• Is this really the election when SuperDelegates—one Super equals 9,000-plus voters in delegate math out of New Hampshire—should determine the Democratic Party nominee for the presidency?
• Why have primary elections if Establishment Party insiders are calling the game?
• Ought polluting fresh water—literally our lifeblood—be considered a crime against humanity, and will you pursue policies reflecting this ethic?