There is only one issue politically here and now in the United States.

That ONE AND ONLY issue is the 99% versus the 1%.

ALL political problems, all social problems, all survival problems, all infrastructure problems, all health problems, all education problems emanate from that ONE AND ONLY issue.

The only person interested in the survival of the 99% and that ONE AND ONLY issue is Bernie Sanders. IMO.

The only person.

All the bullstuff some of folks were writing over on the Pointless Orange about the nomination and how all Democrats must behave sweetly and kindly right now, before the convention, and in lockstep with one another before the nomination are defeatist drivel. Cut that crap out!~

Now is the time those of us who do understand politics and the ONE AND ONLY issue have to shoehorn it and its importance into the pinheads of those who do not or will not understand that ONE AND ONLY issue. Doing so isn’t all sweetness and light. IOW tough shit and stuff your defeatism somewhere people don’t have to hear it, smell it or see to it.

I think racism and hatred of former slaves, recent immigrants in waves, such as Far East Orientals, Latinos, Middle Easterners, and any bunch of people that can be "excluded" due to their skin color, average perceived income, accent, looks, imported customs, etc., are the mentality of have versus have not; and whether or not those to be excluded have attempted to get above themselves, which is really nothing but pursuing a dream of equal chances, equal hard work, equal education, etc., etc., etc. Exclusion can be made on the basis of religion, claiming one's religion should be the source of all secular law and the religion of others is evil, less than something or other, ad nauseam.

The 1% like it when we fight among ourselves about who's worthy of their largess. That 1% love it when we lay blame on each other for pollution, poison, global warming, poverty, disease, incurable infections resistant to all known medicine, most cancer, lack of education, lack of safe housing, lack of truly clean and potable water, as well as the water crops are grown with, a dirty sea killing all the alge which CLEAN THE AIR OF CO2 and actually will die if the seas are much more polluted, and that will kill all O2 breathers, etc.. We blame one another, and we FORGET to follow the source of our misery, our illness, our poverty, our dis-ease, right back up the threads in the tangle of all this social un-rest, this allegedly insurmountable wrongness, to see that each thread is firmly in the ugly claws of 1% percent of the country's population, which wants no notice from us while we try to cull each other off to save them the cost even of that...

— I repeat i'm tired totally tired of people dismissing 1%erism — all these other problems are secondary to the one and only issue. IMO.

Get Sanders nominated. Get all -- OKAY, that's possibly unrealistic, but as many as possible and certainly enough of them to eradicate a majority vote by them -- Republicans running for any office — municipal, state or federal — defeated. Fix issues based on eliminating the ONE AND ONLY issue and balancing power by putting it back into the hands of the 99% and with fair treatment of one another and clean food, fair wages, safe housing, decent education and training, the !% cannot prevail, is whittled to insignificance and those secondary problems are solved.

Fentress