Bernie Busted

Ah, the power of the self-fulfilling prophecy.  Thank you, Rachel Maddow.  Thank you, DNC.  Thank you, voters who gave up or didn't try hard enough to fight their way through an admittedly rigged system.

Every Presidential election people whine and complain about their choices, not realizing that they have the heaviest hand in determining who is nominated.  Each time, I scoff at them and say - buck up!  Make a choice!  This isn't like carefully crafting your own personal dinner at Wong's.  The American political system is designed to only offer you two viable choices.  That means you are not very likely to get the most perfect candidate tailored to your own individual idiosyncrasies.  In my voting lifetime, the only match between my choice for Democratic nominee and actual selection chosen has only been Barack Obama.   All other times I've had to settle for second, third, even fifth choice.  That's just the way it is.

This time, however, I sympathize.  The choices are horrible.  Clinton is bad, yes, but Trump is mind-numbingly unprecedentedly awful.  I am not now, nor have I ever been, nor will I ever be, a Clintonista. Sorry.  Even though their general positions are slightly better than Republicans, I can't stand their personal style and conduct.  Nevertheless, all thinking Americans need to agree on one thing - Trump can't be President of the United States.  He will destroy every shred that's left of what makes America a great and special place.  Make America great?  Ha!  Make America authoritarian fascist!

The most important thing to come out of this election, its only saving grace, is the new progressive movement around Bernie Sanders.  He is our Moses, leading us out of the wilderness, even if he doesn't get to become President.  He is our John the Baptist, hopefully handing us over to the next generation of progressive leaders.

The Presidential election of 2016 is a lost cause.  The only thing we can do is stop our descent into total hatred and madness by stopping Trump at the polls.  But we can hold the progressive movement together, begin the fight for the undercard, challenging corporate Democrats and extremist Republicans throughout the country, in every race we can, from federal to local, electing as many progressives as we can, and then take the Presidency in 2020, and create a new progressive majority that will last a generation.

Let's make this election the last hurrah of the corporate dinosaurs, and the spoiled billionaires.

Let's make the next election about us!

Warren/Gabbard 2020!