Soon to be jailed convicts, if laws apply equally.

For the last four weeks, I have been writing about neo-liberalism as a part of my Wed. morning Open Thread series. Two weeks ago, the essay was on neo-liberal myth of "meritocracy" which forms the basis for the neo-liberal ideology. This idea is exactly why neo-liberals such as Clinton have abandoned the lower classes and the poor and have led to charge to destroy the social safety net. Witness Obama placing Social Security on the negotiating table over the budget.

It is class based. It's the bourgeoisie vs the proletariat.

Clinton may be bourgeois. The rest of them are bourgeois toadies, sucking up to the oligarchy in hopes of catching some crumbs that fall from the table. Those of us who have given up getting even our basic needs met by the oligarchy are the proletariat.

Last Wed on the morning Open Thread, I posted about the characteristics of neo-liberalism. When you examine where both Hillary and Bill Clinton have stood in their policy prescriptions, you can see that Hillary Clinton is firmly a neo-liberal. She is also an oligarch who as a politician sees her mission as to fully implement the neo-liberal ideology which means more cuts to the social safety net, more wars for regime change, and a full throated support for the banks and policies of free trade. No amount of triangulation will change her basic neo-liberal ideology when put into practice.

So why does the Democratic party which is nearly wholly owned by the Clintons not want us? It is an easy answer if you understand the ideological divide. Going back to 2008, the campaign was hard fought between Clinton and Obama, but the ideological gap was not that wide with both being neo-liberals. The main difference was not substance, but style with Obama being the kinder, gentler version to what Clinton would have brought to the White House.

In contrast, the ideological gap between Clinton and Sanders is a massive gulf. Add to that, Sanders supporters are not in it via identity politics, but are for Sanders because of his policies. This is neo-liberalism versus soft democratic socialism. It is not that they are ignoring us because they think we have no place to go. It is because they do not want us in their big neo-liberal tent because they fear we will gum up the works. Most Sanders supporters understand this gulf and most Clinton supporters seem to be clueless.

With that in mind, here is what I posted recently over at TOP.

The way I see it, there will be very little of substance that Clinton will be willing to include in the platform for the Sanders supporters. The reason for this is that Clinton and her big money donors are wedded to the neo-liberal ideology which is exactly the opposite of what Sanders and his supporters want policy wise.

There is just no way that truly expanding and strengthening the social safety net, stopping free trade deals, re-regulating industries, raising the minimum wage to a living wage, and stopping US imperialism is going to wash with the neo-liberals. I think hard core Sanders supporters know this already and the Clinton camp does not believe in those policies. This is a basic philosophical battle over economic ideology that cannot be smoothed over.

So Clinton may try to say some triangulated, non-binding words to appease the Sanders supporters, but she is not going to change. Her record speaks to that. The gulf between the ideologies of Clinton and Sanders is very wide. This is very different from Clinton and Obama who were of similar basic free market ideologies with shades of difference.

Most of them, anyhow. Many Americans, while living in an ostensibly advanced democracy, are fascinated by all things British royal. Religious folk can't wait to get to the Kingdom of Heaven and worship the almighty king. Her Majesty Queen Hillary awaits her coronation, supported by peasants who believe she is infallible. Speaking of infallible, hundreds of millions of Catholics think their Pope is infallible and speaks directly to god.

We are a complex and tragic species.

We, the proletariat, are in revolution, which will turn to rebellion in due time. After what happened in Nevada, the mask is off; the game has been revealed. It is time to rise up and be heard. It is time to keep our voices in their ears for as long as it takes. Look at Wisconsin. They're still singing in the Capitol. Look at North Carolina. Moral Monday's are still taking place. We must become even more active. This is not okay.

The newly rich bourgeoisie and the "old money" both must pay a fair share. Not just income but wealth tax. They, the top 1%, reportedly have about 90% of all assets. A wealth tax should be imposed that returns excess to the people yet still leaves them, the rich, comfortable.

...he's just too terrified or cowardly to say it aloud...

with two fringes. The Tea Pots own the GOP, so they are one fringe. We, of course, own nothing. If we're not pinko commies plotting the overthrow of the US, we're just the crazies on the street talking to ourselves and pushing our shopping carts.

except one party likes to add a cheesy religus flag to "american exceptionalism"

They are a one issue party. An important issue but essentially a middle class Left party. They offer nothing to the proletariat. They need to build a coalition.