If Democrats helped working people they would lose favor with their corporate bosses and the bipartisan barons of Wall Street who fund their campaigns.
After 2016's Bernie campaign, where I had the opportunity to witness up close and personal how treacherous the DNC truly is, I'll never be under any false illusion that they can be reformed. Face it, the Dems have never been for the workers, for minorities, for anyone other than themselves. They can't wait to kiss the backsides of their corporate donors and accept their lobbyists' money and be made into corporate board members upon retiring from politics.
It's why it's time for all good Americans to kick the duopoly habit! Skip the "lesser evil" and vote for the greater good. #VoteGreenParty
Bernie was betrayed, but then he fell meekly in line (twice) and hectored all of us to shut up, plaster a smile across our mug and vote the party line. Took me a long time to accept it, but the dude is a fraud and is no more than a sheepdog to keep us bothersome lefties in the DNC shearing pen.
I remember the night Obama won. My local Dems had put together a great campaign HQ in a recently shuttered storefront of a family pharmacy that shut down after Walgreens came to town riding on state subsidies.The HQ had a clothing and food bank, free furniture, a circle of rocking chairs for people to knit mittens and caps for the local kids on assistance. There were all kinds of great meetings, rallies and events. The place was so packed there were three TVs set up. As he gave his stirring speech in Grant Park there were people sobbing with joy after the 8 long, dark, murderous years of Cheney/Bush.
I looked at my happy neighbors and a little voice in the back of my head said: "He better be the real thing or progressives are dead for a generation."
Well, he wasn't and they are.
Shortly after Obama received the memo (literally, as proven by Assange) from Wall Street as to who he was to put on his cabinet, I was visited by a state Obama rep. working outside the state dem party They wanted me to work with them. "He just put Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner on his cabinet," I said. "No thanks. He's a fraud."
After Bernie's two betrayals I was done and gone from the dems.
Everybody needs to do what's right for them, but for me, I will probably not vote in any race above local and MAYBE a statewide race or two. I consider my non-vote to be the only one I can make in this completely corrupted corporate duopoly with the greatest possibility of making a change.
I think you'll appreciate my portrait of what I call the "Republocrat" party...
I call them the "duopoly" or "the uniparty with two different spellings." I can't say I ever believed Obama was our "savior" for a second. I was in the middle of a crisis when he ran the first time and the second time, his actions in his first term had pretty much given him away as a Wall St. fraud. I took a chance on Bernie in 2016, but as soon as he gave it all away to Hillary, I walked away. I'm not a party person and the dirty tricks the Dems did to the Facebook pages we ran for Bernie's campaign (posting child pornography photos on the Bernie state/regional pages so FB took them all down the day of the New York primary and locked us admins out so we couldn't put them back up again) convinced me that the Dems are never to be trusted. Its understandable that people don't feel like voting in the presidential election--since it's so obviously rigged--but I feel that by voting for candidates from alternative parties we are lodging our complaint and demonstrating our distrust of the corrupt two-party/uniparty establishment.
Initially I was hesitant with Obama but came to support him, but the illusion evaporated pretty quickly. Man that story about the FB pages is something. I had not heard that before. The Dems are as dirty and nasty as any far right republicans.
If you talk to other Bernie people who were FB admins in 2016 they'll collaborate it. (Dems will deny it outright. I was so shocked at the time and wondered, "Where would anyone get those awful photos of those poor kids?" And then Epstein's Island made the news and how many times Bill Clinton flew there. That's where the kiddie porn came from probably.) There were hundreds upon hundreds of Bernie FB pages and other social media sites... and 2016 was sort of the beginning of learning just how effective social media could be for energizing voters, particularly young voters. The Dems were terrified really about how well we were communicating with the voters and talking up Bernie's platform. So, never been a Dem and never will be one. (I supported Bernie as a Socialist.)
And Sanders never made a peep about it. Bet the CIA was involved, they do that kind of domestic political sabotage crap all the time. In many ways Sanders betrayed us all worse than the Dems.
After 2016's Bernie campaign, where I had the opportunity to witness up close and personal how treacherous the DNC truly is, I'll never be under any false illusion that they can be reformed. Face it, the Dems have never been for the workers, for minorities, for anyone other than themselves. They can't wait to kiss the backsides of their corporate donors and accept their lobbyists' money and be made into corporate board members upon retiring from politics.
It's why it's time for all good Americans to kick the duopoly habit! Skip the "lesser evil" and vote for the greater good. #VoteGreenParty
Bernie was betrayed, but then he fell meekly in line (twice) and hectored all of us to shut up, plaster a smile across our mug and vote the party line. Took me a long time to accept it, but the dude is a fraud and is no more than a sheepdog to keep us bothersome lefties in the DNC shearing pen.
I remember the night Obama won. My local Dems had put together a great campaign HQ in a recently shuttered storefront of a family pharmacy that shut down after Walgreens came to town riding on state subsidies.The HQ had a clothing and food bank, free furniture, a circle of rocking chairs for people to knit mittens and caps for the local kids on assistance. There were all kinds of great meetings, rallies and events. The place was so packed there were three TVs set up. As he gave his stirring speech in Grant Park there were people sobbing with joy after the 8 long, dark, murderous years of Cheney/Bush.
I looked at my happy neighbors and a little voice in the back of my head said: "He better be the real thing or progressives are dead for a generation."
Well, he wasn't and they are.
Shortly after Obama received the memo (literally, as proven by Assange) from Wall Street as to who he was to put on his cabinet, I was visited by a state Obama rep. working outside the state dem party They wanted me to work with them. "He just put Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner on his cabinet," I said. "No thanks. He's a fraud."
After Bernie's two betrayals I was done and gone from the dems.
Everybody needs to do what's right for them, but for me, I will probably not vote in any race above local and MAYBE a statewide race or two. I consider my non-vote to be the only one I can make in this completely corrupted corporate duopoly with the greatest possibility of making a change.
I think you'll appreciate my portrait of what I call the "Republocrat" party...
https://mark192.substack.com/p/the-one-party-republocrat
I call them the "duopoly" or "the uniparty with two different spellings." I can't say I ever believed Obama was our "savior" for a second. I was in the middle of a crisis when he ran the first time and the second time, his actions in his first term had pretty much given him away as a Wall St. fraud. I took a chance on Bernie in 2016, but as soon as he gave it all away to Hillary, I walked away. I'm not a party person and the dirty tricks the Dems did to the Facebook pages we ran for Bernie's campaign (posting child pornography photos on the Bernie state/regional pages so FB took them all down the day of the New York primary and locked us admins out so we couldn't put them back up again) convinced me that the Dems are never to be trusted. Its understandable that people don't feel like voting in the presidential election--since it's so obviously rigged--but I feel that by voting for candidates from alternative parties we are lodging our complaint and demonstrating our distrust of the corrupt two-party/uniparty establishment.
Initially I was hesitant with Obama but came to support him, but the illusion evaporated pretty quickly. Man that story about the FB pages is something. I had not heard that before. The Dems are as dirty and nasty as any far right republicans.
If you talk to other Bernie people who were FB admins in 2016 they'll collaborate it. (Dems will deny it outright. I was so shocked at the time and wondered, "Where would anyone get those awful photos of those poor kids?" And then Epstein's Island made the news and how many times Bill Clinton flew there. That's where the kiddie porn came from probably.) There were hundreds upon hundreds of Bernie FB pages and other social media sites... and 2016 was sort of the beginning of learning just how effective social media could be for energizing voters, particularly young voters. The Dems were terrified really about how well we were communicating with the voters and talking up Bernie's platform. So, never been a Dem and never will be one. (I supported Bernie as a Socialist.)
And Sanders never made a peep about it. Bet the CIA was involved, they do that kind of domestic political sabotage crap all the time. In many ways Sanders betrayed us all worse than the Dems.