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What’s after the #DemExit? or How to Bust, Part One
Jol Devitro·Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Help! I can no longer feel the Bern!
Ever since that fateful joint “Stronger Together” rally where Bernie capitulated to the monster in the room and endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, I just can’t feel the Bern anymore.
It didn’t make any sense to a lot of us who have lived on the bread and butter and sweet wine and thick pot haze of Bernie’s inspirational words and ideals, his credible articulation of truth to power that woke up a good portion of America.
God knows I love the man with all my heart; he captured it as no living human ever has before, just by caring about other human beings and making that his life’s work; just by working for the greater good all his life instead of pursuing personal wealth; just by engaging ethically with the institutions that are set up to shape our civilization; just by being Bernie.
I was Bern or Bust, so now what!?
I would have gone along with Bernie anywhere Bernie wanted to go, or so I thought. His endorsement of Hillary blew that intention out of the water and left me rudderless awhile. I’d declared myself #BernOrBust, so now that the Bern had taken himself off the table, what was I to do?
Obviously to bust was the immediate imperative, but what did that even mean? Aside from rhetorical flourish, what does it mean to bust? To Bust or not to Bust is not the first question; the first thing one must figure out is what does it mean to bust?
Since I have given up any old sentimental attachment to Democrats despite my long history of supporting them, the party now holds no appeal for me whatsoever, in spite of Bernie’s having built a Democratic platform that’s a progressive paradigm for the ages, surely a stunning and satisfying achievement in the mind of a man who has spent 40 years under the hood of democracy tinkering with the nuts and bolts of legislation.
For us kids under 45, though, his achievement in platforming lacks the drama and spectacle that we, the children, had called for and demanded, the reason we’d sent Bernie all our hard-earned, $7-minimum-wage-earned money and brought our friends out to rallies and made canvassing calls and hosted phone banks and barnstorming events for the whole past year. We wanted more than this apparently forced capitulation; we wanted a victory.
But that victory was stolen from us, as time, in its never-ending rounding out, continues to illustrate in ever more sickening detail. It feels now that the only ethical thing for we, the children, to do, is to Bust.
Why Bust? Why not fall in line behind Hillary and support the “lesser of two evils”? First, it’s a fallacy that she’s the lesser of two evils; that’s not necessarily true. In my opinion, Hillary is more corrupt, more deeply tied in to the oligarchy’s multifarious tendrils and the war machine, more incentivized to go on making war and selling U.S. weapons to the world and raping the earth in every conceivable way, than Trump is. Trump would be relatively isolationist, I think, and while it would be horrible to have an ignorant and insensitive and misinformed president, it would be worse to have a war criminal and known sponsor of world terror, which it is known that Mrs. Clinton is.
So busting is tactical. It seems at first glance that “to bust” would indicate the throwing of some kind of tantrum, if not an actual chair; or even an explosion, perhaps even a threat of harm to self or others; but it could also be a positive bust, like a Big Bang kind of bust! That would be a good bust, a bust that could inseminate a whole new era in American politics.
It's what my kind of person in America--which is to say a "poor"--ought to be doing right now (so says the feeling down deep in my bones): rejecting the corrupt corporate-owned 2-party binary at this critical moment in time.
So that’s what I want my bust to be...a revolutionary, world-changing bust. Once that decision is settled on, one must ask oneself what color one’s bust is. In my opinion, the best color for one’s bust is Green.
It is a very funny thing that we are told that a vote for anyone other than the two corporate-powered parties' candidates is a thrown-away vote. What I'm proposing is that people vote their consciences, hardly an excessive line; however, in this ass-backwards country where ignorance is inculcated in places learning ought to be, this position is taken by most folks to be not only mad radicalism but downright civil disobedience! People are taught that it's heresy to act in defiance of recent polling. This is how we ended up with the two biggest shitheels on the continent as our major parties' offerings.

As for me, whether you want to call it civil disobedience or just plain spoiled brattiness, I'm in all the way. This is the time to stomp our feet and refuse the poisoned gruel being offered to us. They do not yet put guns to our heads and tell us who we must vote for; instead they change our votes through ES&S voting machines that George W. Bush railroaded into most of the states with his insidious Help America Vote Act. This is the main thing we need to address. We need the eyes of the world on us, covering the fact that our Emperor has no clothes and our Democracy has no votes, by which I mean the will of the people is at every turn being suppressed and manipulated and, as was the case with Bernie Sanders, buried altogether.
In 2016, a viable third party by and for the people is not only possible; it's our only hope to save our broken American democracy, our broken and miserable people, and to get us all focused on reforming human practices in time to avert major climate catastrophe. #GreenOrDie has become my mantra, because it feels obvious to me, and most other kids under 45, that it's exactly that dire.
It is sick and incomprehensible to me that so many have been conditioned to believe that they must vote for this wretched, stinking carcass because the other side has produced something even more vile.
Did you know that the Clintons set Donald Trump up to run, exactly for this purpose--to give Hillary an opponent she could beat. Only they far overestimated Hillary's popularity and the public's willingness to swallow that big dick of Clinton corruption, even as a snail trail of rank corruption visible from the heavens is daily being leaked and revealed to us.
Only the willfully blind and brainwashed (for the Clinton's are spellcasters who use mass hypnosis via gobbledegook and fallacy projection to keep the public asleep) are incapable of seeing her villainy; fortunately the children, for whatever blessed reason, are seemingly immune from the Clinton charm, or what little shreds remain of it, and will not vote for her as a matter of basic judgment.
She's a crook and a liar, not to mention a war monger. Why would I ever vote for her? I guess it’s harder for people over 45 to figure things out; their paychecks and comfort levels are dependent on their willingness to reject facts and serve blindly, to accept obfuscation and lies and all manner of corruption as a cost of doing business. Morality is a difficult equation when there are so many lies to factor in, when one is so entrenched in one’s own deceptions that reality no matter matters.
I guess life is much more simple when you're young.

They will almost certainly try to spin it as a threat, though, rather than a measure of what we know will happen to us.

One more "chair thrown round the World" coming up from the corporate whores of Media. Count on it.

But ye gawds, it does capture the feeling!

BTW, this "kid" is over 60, and partly because of what I saw happen in the 90s, you couldn't get me to vote for another Clinton, even with a gun to my head. They helped wreck my home state, their social policies helped a couple friends of mine die before their time, and their harsh sentencing laws stepped up the War Against Blacks (-the "War Against Drugs", which we all know is bullshit). A vote for Hillary would be spitting on the ashes of my friends. A vote for Hillary might just finish off my home state. No group of terrorists could possibly do as much damage to the country as the Clintons and their wealthy friends already have, not even if you gave said terrorists a suitcase nuke or two, and invited them to wreck the place.

I too have suspected that Trump only ran to help Clinton get elected, and I suspect that he won't release his tax returns because someone might find a tidy sum from the Clinton Foundation, or one of its many surrogates.