to my party, the Democratic wing of the Democratic party, the party of FDR.

I hope indictments fly towards them, and the Clinton Foundation is unmasked as the pay-for-play, money laundering operation that it is, involving arms sales to foreign governments and quid pro quo.

As Bob Herbert wrote in his 2001 NYT Cut Him Loose column

The Clintons are a terminally unethical and vulgar couple, and they've betrayed everyone who has ever believed in them.

As neither Clinton has the grace to retire from the scene, the Democrats have no choice but to turn their backs on them. It won't be easy, but the Democrats need to try.

I don't trust either one of them to do good for America or its citizens. Privatizing social security will probably be one of HRC's first acts if we don't get the Senate in November.

I think that the results in NY might be a reflection of the power that the MSM has in America, but it is probably more complicated than that.

I was born in Brooklyn, where my parents had been born and raised. My mother is a defiant Hillary supporter. My father, I’m sure would be supporting Sanders if he were still here. I’m highly reluctant to ask my siblings who they support at this point, since my guess (knowing them so well) is that I would be disappointed. What does that say to me? … something like, find hope elsewhere. I feel so saddened, yet hopeful still, at the same time. I guess that makes me confused.

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...the Democratic Party of today is yesterdays Republicans. Republicans have moved so far right that Democrats are now the middle with no leftward party for progressives.

Is it "Game Over" now, or what? Is Bernie hopelessly out of reach of the nomination? Don't the rest of the primaries matter any more?

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They have become the Republican Party of 68

In the mass-production of 'widgets' on an assembly line, it is always needed to introduce quality control or quality assurance in some points of that process to monitor the final output. We can look at democracy as the factory, our factory, the people's factory, and its final product or 'widget' is the vote or paper ballot of each citizen in our nation or society.

It is impossible to check the dimensions every single 'widget' to see if our factory or democracy-machine is producing the designed output, widgets being 'clean votes', all the time. Millions of widgets need to be finished and ready to be 'sold' in the marketplace. Right away or even in real time would be better.

In that manufacturing process, tolerances will 'drift' away or deviate from an acceptable norm. This is normal in the real world and can be expected if not predicted with some degree of precision. A certain number of 'widgets' will always fail to meet acceptable standards.

Here's the problem. Some departments in our factory, i guess that we have 50 states or individual departments within our great factory of democracy, each one producing widgets like the rest, there are possibly some very crooked supervisors of those departments which have outlawed the use of quality control in that production process. Are they making counterfeits? Are they cooking the books to avoid meeting the quotas required by our factory?

We have scientific tools to expose the defects in our mass production. But apparently some Luddites are in charge. Who hired them? We have to fire them and put them in the unemployment line. Permanently. They can live on welfare, but not work in a responsible position in our factory. We have competent supervisors and workers who can produce a quality product. Let's get this factory running exactly like our original CEOs first wanted it to work.

Carroll Quigley was a professor of history at Georgetown University, and one of Bill Clinton's early mentors - in fact, it was Quigley who recommended him for a Rhodes Scholarship. He was an unapologetic Machiavellian, whose cynical view of what modern democracy should look like was encapsulated in the following quote from his book "Tragedy And Hope - A History Of The World In Our Time":

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.

These words, circa 1966, seem quite prophetic in anticipating the Democratic Party's total capitulation to corporate interests, and the adoption of neo-liberalism (aka corporatism) as the de facto guiding philosophy of the entire political establishment, encompassing both of the mainstream parties. Of course, Quigley would be the first to agree that it would not be desirable for the two parties to be 100% identical, so in order to give the commoners a rooting interest they have conveniently split on a handful of "boutique" social issues.

Which is not to in any way belittle the importance of such things as legal abortion or gay rights, but the fact remains that on the meta-issues that most profoundly affect the quality of life for the vast majority, there is very little space between mainstream Republican and mainstream Democrat. What should now be crystal clear to all is that there is no way to defeat this utterly rancid, debased and corrupt system by working within it. Attempting to form tactical alliances with corporate tools like Clinton or Obama is a recipe for nothing more than permanent dis-empowerment and further entrenchment of the status quo.