I’ve seen 30 years of Democratic establishment contempt for progressives, I’ve seen their seven stages of reactionary attacks too many times, I’ve seen the condescension and the slander and the scorched earth, I’ve heard their lectures about loyalty, I’ve heard their demands for support while progressive values burn in the bonfires of the Beltway and the Four Horsemen of Triangulation saddle up for yet another nationwide ride.
I’ve seen all I need to see from them and heard all I need to hear.
Yes, louder clappers for Hillary the Inevitable, this is a BERNIE diary.
I’m posting this because he’s telling the truth about the crimes of Wall Street, because he's telling the truth about corporate capitalism, because he’s telling the truth about America's corrupt political and economic and banking and media systems. He's receiving record contributions from average Americans because they know this is no longer a democracy, because corporate politicians do not represent them, because corporate politicians spend more on prisons than they do on schools, because corruption is off the charts and Wall Street is overdosing on greed and the only answer they have for the complex problems of the world is more fear-mongering and more boots on the ground everywhere and more blood money for the Pentagon and more flag waving in the twilight’s last gleaming and more weaponry for their militarized police.
I’ve seen Hillary push the corporate agenda of the Establishment too many times, I’ve seen too many diarists here pretending it never happened, I've heard all the excuses made for her, I’ve heard all the convoluted explanations about it, I've seen all the Hillary diary smoke and all the Hillary diary mirrors and all the pious claims that she’s a credible progressive candidate.
Yes. Hillary’s a progressive. And Armando is a ballerina.
Spare me the epistles about Hillary’s “experience”, spare me the parables about her “electability”, spare me the platitudes about a woman in the White House, spare me the sermons about scary socialist socialism, spare me the huffing and puffing about Dkos traffic going down because of Bernie diary/comment “ugliness”.
If you want to see what ugliness is, take a look at Wall Street greed, take a look at that Trans-Pacific Partnership Hillary was so proud of for so long, take a look at the violence ripping the Middle East apart because Democrats like Hillary hopped aboard Bush’s Warmonger Train instead of speaking out at the protests, take a look at her surrogates trotting onto national television with Karl Rove’s playbook in their hands.
The fingers of those corporate politicians are always on the trigger, they fire their Wall Street lies and reload, fire and reload, fire and reload. If you're a progressive you're a target, if you speak truth to power you're a target, if you want a living wage you're a target, if you’re against “free trade” you're a target, if you try to organize a union you're a target, if you support single-payer you're a target.
These Americans are tired of being targets . . .
Enough.
Is.
Enough.
This is the rising of We the People against corporate politicians who reward the powerful and punish the powerless, against bankers who regulate Congress instead of Congress regulating them, against police who kill whoever they damn well feel like killing and call it law enforcement, against corporate media hacks who recite plutocrat talking points and call it journalism, against corrupt judges who fill America's prisons with the poor and call it justice.
Stand with Bernie.
Redeem America.
Win this election with us . . .