why so many people of color voted for a candidate whose policies affected them negatively. Could it be that their leaders were mostly in the bag for the Clintons, and they followed them like good little sheep?

at In These Times (http://inthesetimes.com/article/19372/how-the-word-progressive-came-to-l...) a few days ago, entitled "How the Word Progressive Came to Lose All Meaning." She points and laughs at many commentators twisting themselves into pretzels to describe Tim Kaine, of all people, as progressive. It's a wonderful article, and the conclusion is worth pondering. The article describes TOP, for instance, to a tee.

So far as I can determine, Barack Obama was the first modern-day Democratic presidential nominee to identify as a progressive. Interestingly, he did so when left-wing activists criticized his rightward shift during the 2008 election campaign. Progressive must poll really well, because after Obama came the great stampede. Political figures such as Andrew Cuomo and Rahm Emanuel, not exactly the guys you’d invite to a meeting of your local Democratic Socialists of America chapter, have sworn up and down that they are progressives. Then there’s Hillary Clinton, who’s been running around describing herself as “a progressive who gets things done.” Note the condescension implicit in the phrase: so the rest of us are hapless pie-in-the-sky types who don’t get things done?

Clearly, Clinton’s self-characterization was meant, at least in part, as a diss aimed at Bernie Sanders. During primary season, Sanders and Clinton debated the question of who and what qualifies as progressive. When reporters asked Bernie whether Hillary is a “true progressive,” he replied, “I think, frankly, it is hard to be a real progressive and to take on the establishment in a way that I think has to be taken on, when you come as dependent as she has through her super PAC and in other ways on Wall Street and drug-company money.”

At a Democratic debate a few days later, Clinton was asked to respond. “I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress,” she said. “A progressive is someone who makes progress.” Well, okay then.

Clinton’s tautological definition suggests that progressive has become a meaningless term devoid of ideological content; a signifier that signifies nothing in particular. In that sense, perhaps it is an apt descriptor after all for triangulating politicians like Tim Kaine and Hillary Clinton.

Leaks and reports say that the Clinton machine has been writing press releases that are then spouted as news (always good, but judgmental).

those in power can do what they want. Pretty simple. And anyone who doesn't like it can suffer the consequences.

The mention of the bomb dropping in this tune turning up in a mix just now seemed so appropriate in view of the corporate War Against The World, where the US puppet-government of TPTB apparently thinks that they'll nuke any country large enough to stand up for itself without Mutual Assured Destruction kicking in, as it obviously and assuredly will - barring more stuxnet-type attacks probably planned, much like any other particularly cowardly and scuzzy psychopathic thug drugging a targeted rape-murder victim to have her helpless. The victims, of course, are to be blamed for any attempt at self-defence/taking out their attacker in going down. No wonder Obama was so big on nuclear disarmament for pretty much everyone other than, I believe, the US and ?Israel?

...Such a wonderful country, but the world keeps burning it down...

Although actually, it's the world being burnt by those who'd destroy anything they don't have themselves to have it all to themselves. But if anything might survive this, it will, of course be 'history' as written by Hillary's personal 'historian'-propagandist, even if nobody's around anymore to read it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87HjsK10_74&index=27&list=RDaCyGvGEtOwc

4 Non Blondes - Dear Mr. President