The so-called "Democratic" Convention (?) is the result of a political Primary process that was anything but democratic. Already Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been booed while speaking. Perhaps she should have been lynched, if there was any real justice.

The all-too-easy willing capitulation of Bernie Sanders is also both baffling and frustrating. The sense of clear principle, and boldness that had marked Sanders historic campaign has just evaporated into a whimper and pure mush, justified by a stunningly naivete -- that dare suggests that Hillary Clinton has sincerely shifted "left" from her atrocious lifelong anti-progressive, pro-Cartel, pro-Corporate, pro-War, pro-PoliceState, pro-Bankster track record.

But I hope that his own Delegates will defy Sanders cowardly instructions, and go forward and fight publicly on the Convention Floor to the very bitter end for both the candidate (Sanders), and to defeat and upend the DNC Rules that are designed to deliberately sabotage and cripple any possible challenge ever made by progressive candidates. It is time to finally wrest control away from the crooked DNC Establishment regardless of how messy that may appear, or whose feelings might get hurt.

It's called Revolution. Either you're for it, or you're against it. It is time at long last to choose.

Some reflections about the Clinton-Kaine ticket from ConsortiumNews:

By picking Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton has revealed her true preferences and shown that her move to the left on policy issues during the primaries was simply a tactical move to defeat Bernie Sanders. The two politicians to whom she gave serious consideration to choosing as her running mates were Kaine and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. What both men share in common is, like the Clintons, being leaders of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). The DLC was, on economic and foreign policy issues, a servile creature of Wall Street – funded by Wall Street.

As Tom Frank’s new book 'Listen, Liberal' documents, the DLC vilified the New Deal, financial and safety regulation, organized labor, the working class, opponents of militarism, opponents of the disastrous trade deals that were actually backdoor assaults on effective health, safety and financial regulation, and the progressive base of the Democratic Party.

The DLC leadership, which included President Bill Clinton, entered into a series of cynical bipartisan deals with the worst elements of the Republican Party, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Wall Street elites that:

• Destroyed Glass-Steagall (the New Deal reform that separated commercial and investment banks)
• Created a massive regulatory “black hole” in financial derivatives that Enron and later the world’s largest banks exploited to run their fraud schemes that led to the Enron-era scandals and the Great Recession
• Drove Brooksley Born from government because she warned about these derivatives and sought to protect us from the coming disaster
• Cut the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) staff by over three-quarters, destroying effective supervision of banks
• Cut the Office of Thrift Supervision’s (OTS) staff by over half, destroying effective supervision of savings and loans such as Countrywide, Washington Mutual (known as WaMu, the largest “bank” failure in U.S. history), and IndyMac. OTS was also supposed to regulate aspects of AIG and Lehman, but had no capacity to do so given the massive staff cuts and its deliberately useless regulatory leaders chosen by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush

Where Was Kaine? Kaine, like Hillary Clinton, has embraced for decades the DLC/’New Democrats’ agenda – meaning they are allies of Wall Street. They embrace a neo-liberal, pro-corporate outlook that has done incredible damage to the vast majority of Americans. Kaine is actively pushing to weaken already grossly inadequate financial regulation and pushing to adopt the indefensible “Trans-Pacific Partnership” (TPP).

By choosing Kaine, Hillary Clinton is signaling that her new-found support for financial regulation and opposition to TPP was a tactical ploy to win the nomination before she “pivots” back to the disastrous policies that she, Kaine and Vilsack have helped inflict on the world for decades. She is playing into Trump’s claims that she is not honest.

What’s especially noteworthy is that Hillary Clinton and Kaine are carrying Wall Street’s water while the Republican Party is repudiating some of these policies. The Republican Party platform calls for reinstating Glass-Steagall, and Donald Trump has called for the defeat of TPP.

So I will close here with my earlier statement, which is a call to action:

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It is time to finally wrest control away from the crooked DNC Establishment regardless of how messy that may appear, or whose feelings might get hurt. It's called Revolution. Either you're for it, or you're against it. It is time to choose.

Fight on!

And We Still Do!