Super Delegates and Baseball: A Rigged Competition

I happen to be a baseball  fan.  This is how the Democratic Super Delegate scenario would play out if the nomination were a baseball game:

Before the umpire calls "Play Ball" the privileged team is awarded 10 runs by the league. Then, no matter how well the non-privileged team does, the scorekeeper adds 10 runs to score of the inevitable team.

How long would fans continue to attend games?

If Hillary Was the Only Candidate Running For President I Would Not Vote For Her

The worst possible outcome for America would be another Clinton presidency. The Clintons 

are shameless corporate billionaire shills and power hungry war mongers.  I have listened to 

her campaign squawk and there is absolutely nothing she has to offer to improve the life of 

regular Americans.  She offers endless mid east war and a certain continuation of the 

degradation of the poor and middle class for the enrichment of corporate crooks.  Here is 

the difference between Trump and Clinton:

Trump worships money; Clinton worships power.  

Decide for yourself which is worse.

Trump and Clinton are the two most despised candidates for president in history.

Bernie is the only candidate who is honest, well liked,  and has the interest of the people and 

the country at heart. 

2016 election:  What is wrong with this picture?

The Worst of All Possible Outcomes

This will be an unpopular but brief post.

It is time to teach the so called Democratic Party that they need to put up a candidate of the people, not the corporate billionaire class. If they do not return to traditional Democratic Party values, they will not only lose the election, they will cease to exist.
If Bernie does not get the nomination (and there is ample cause to believe that he will) we must never allow a Clinton or any of their phony Democratic posers to get near the White House.
This is true despite any consequences.  Another Clinton term would be the worst of all possible outcomes.

Hawking Poison to People in Prime Time and Lying About It

Remember Big Tobacco of the 1960’s and 1970’s?  Big Pharma is the new Big Tobacco.

In 1981 C. Everett Koop became Surgeon General.  A brave and honest man, he took on Big Tobacco.  Tobacco companies lied about the danger of lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease from cigarettes to preserve their obscene profits even though their greed was killing people.

They spent ungodly amounts on misleading marketing extolling the virtues of their poisons.  It took many years and lawsuits until Big Tobacco was kicked off television and forced to pay huge restitution payments to its victims.  Those victories were possible because the only legislators in the pocket of Big Tobacco in those days were perhaps representatives of Big Tobacco states.

Now we have the curse of Big Pharma.  They are worse.  Tobacco always was a voluntary decision.  I was a smoker and beat the addiction with only will power.  Many others did as well.  Big Pharma colludes with the medical business and business oriented doctors to make people believe that they need Pharma designed and marketed drugs for their health or even life.  They bribe, promise, and cajole FDA officials for ”fast track” approval which allows them to claim these drugs are safe when they are not.  Like Big Tobacco, their business model is based on greed and the maximization of profit, chiefly to the benefit of their corporate executives. 

It is not enough that they spend huge marketing sums bribing and schmoozing Doctors with free food, entertainment, and obscene speaking fees.   Lately, as you cannot help to have noticed, they blanket prime time (and non-prime time) TV with their gross and repugnant advertising.  This is highly inappropriate on TV.  Only the United States and New Zealand in the civilized world allow this disgraceful TV Pharma shilling.

Now, so many of our elected representatives have taken the gifts of Pharma lobbyists and Pharma campaign contributions that action seems impossible.  Even Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton  slops at the Big Pharma trough.

Here is the only answer I have to combat this atrocity.  Elect Bernie Sanders President.  Elect honest progressive candidates to Congress, Senate, and local office.  The Progressive revolution is energized and wide ranging.  There is plenty of room in the revolution for us to, like C. Everett Coop, take on Big Pharma.

To Preserve the Peaceful Revolution

Bernie Sanders is a moral principled man.  He would probably not take this suggestion, but I raise it anyway.

Bernie will not lose on issues.  If we lose, it will be Clinton and DNC dirty tricks and rigged election outcomes that defeat us.  This is outrageous and beyond decency and democracy.

Hillary and Bill stand between us and peaceful revolution. If she would do the right thing and GET OUT OF THE WAY!  we would certainly win the general election and avoid a mid east war and a further entrenchment of the corporate billionaire dictatorship of America. 

I would like Bernie Sanders Revolution supporters to urge Bernie, if he does not win the nomination, to run for President in 2016 as an independent.  Four terms of Clinton:  1992-2000, and, I posit,  2008-2016 are four terms too many.  Look where these disastrous years have gotten us.

Bernie is an independent Senator from Vermont.  He is the longest serving independent in the history of congress.  Bernie Supporters, disaffected Democrats and Republicans, and most of all independents are a majority over Democrats and Republicans combined.

If the 2016 election cycle proves anything, the Democrats and Republicans as they think of themselves are through.
They think Trump and Clinton are the best we can do.  In itself, that sad fact impugns and discredits these sham parties which are actually just aspects of the same corruption.

We can prove them wrong.  Bernie can and will win if he is willing to run as an independent.
If we still hope for a peaceful revolution, then the time is now to elect Sanders no matter how it is done.
The alternative is surely Great Depression and War.
The choice is yet to be made.

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I Stand Corrected: I Would Not Support or Vote for Trump

I owe a clarification to my good friends who support  Bernie Sanders for President 2016.
Two days ago I posted that in a general election where Trump vs. Clinton that I would support and vote for Trump.  Upon consideration and soul searching I could never support the likes of Trump.
This is how my post was wrong:

1.  The nomination is in play and I believe that Bernie Sanders will be the nominee.  It is premature to speculate about the general election.
2.  I was engaging in speculative hyperbole but I failed to make that clear.  The misrepresentations and voter suppression of the DNC and Clinton campaign have made me angry and combative.  That is not necessarily helpful to the Sanders campaign.
3.  The point I was trying to make is that the Clintons are extremely dangerous to America.  Yet another term would enable them to further entrench the interests of the large banks, Wall Street, and the corporate billionaire culture Bernie is trying to break.
I lost a good job because my employer was forced out of business due the effects of NAFTA. The Clintons changed the course of the Democratic party in 1992, turning it to a conservative alternative to the bizarro ultra right wing extreme Republican party.
Nevertheless, I must stand corrected.  Even in the face of the Clintons, there is no good reason to support the likes of Trump or Cruz.
4.  If it comes to pass that Bernie is not the nominee, there are still options.  Here are some:  abstain from voting, write in Bernie Sanders, vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.  Progressives could unite behind Jill Stein or another progressive candidate.

It is important for the Democratic party to know that large numbers of Sanders supporters would not vote for Clinton in a general election.

This should be clear to the DNC going into the convention in July.  The Republican convention occurs prior to the Democratic.  That is good. We will know who is the Republican nominee.  By July, it should be clear that Bernie has the momentum and energy of the voters. Clinton is not liked or trusted even by Democrats.  She is drowning under the weight of her own accumulated baggage.  She comes across as insincere.  By July it should be obvious that Bernie would soundly defeat a Republican and his coattails would help elect more Democrats to the Senate and Congress. 

Sanders' 30+ years in elected office (25 in the congress and senate) make him arguably the most qualified candidate running in either party.  His lengthy experience in the legislature would give him  greater leverage against obstructionism than was available to Obama.

Independents comprise a bit over 40% of voters.  For the most part, they are not counted in the primaries and certainly not in caucuses.
In November, they will vote for Bernie in large numbers.

Once Bernie gets past the Clinton inevitable juggernaut illusion, the campaign against whichever nut the Republicans run will be a cakewalk for the Sanders political revolution.

Thank you for allowing me to express myself and revisit and correct my previous post.

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I Have Officially Joined the Trump Campaign

I have joined the Trump campaign officially.

Disclaimer:  I am and will remain a strong Bernie Sanders supporter and repeat donor.   If, however, he is cheated and swindled out of the nomination by the voter fraud/ suppression of the Democratic Party by the Clintons and Debbie Wasserman Shultz, then I will be an active Trump supporter.

The Clinton machine has controlled American politics since 1992.  In my opinion, they ran the Obama administration with right of approval over every thing Obama has done or not done.
The only break from Clintons was Bush, and the Clintons were very supportive of him.

The Clinton juggernaut machine is like an incurable cancer with tentacles throughout the body politic.  The patient (America) will surely die if the cancer is allowed to progress.  Perhaps it is time to let the patient to die in order to kill the cancer.

Let Trump really frig everything up.  Then, at least we can start building anew.

A Clinton administration would really be the fifth term for them (counting the Obama years) and would permanently lock in the corporate domination for good.  How could a progressive Sanders like candidate in 4, 8 or 12 years break that lock?  In my opinion it would be impossible.

The Clintons must be stopped now.  If not, it may be too late for even the young to stage a political revolution.  

Bernie remains our only last ditch shot.  I will fight for him until the end.

But if it comes down to Trump vs. the Clintons, I am with Trump (or Cruz) all the way.

My heart is broken by my own decision.  Nevertheless, the Clintons must be stopped.