They've already made you a slave. You're either a wage slave or a dependent slave or a beaten down slave or a written off slave.

The Iroqouis to their captives:

Entweder Sklaverei oder Tod.

Did you see About That Post-Bernie Movement on CounterPunch?

(As an aside, I live in N. Charleston, SC, there really aren't any Bernie people around, and all this state's Electoral Votes will go to Trump ... I have a friend who lives in Stockholm and I'm thinking of going and visiting him again ... He was obviously the smart one, left here after college and is now a Swedish citizen.)

Take care

some time ago, before the mass arrivals occurred, i started working on a platform for a progressive party, it's here.

it is far from complete, but it could be added to and amended as needed if folks had a mind to.

Not to say having alternate plans isn't a good idea, but let's see how things play out. We still have a month. June 14 is the last primary in DC with 20 delegates at stake. There are 781 delegates left and Bernie is 276 behind. It is difficult, but I'm still trying. We need 68% of the remaining delegates, and/or the supers to wake up. They might see it as self preservation. It is a dream...but it always has been a dream. They never thought we would get this far. Two months till the convention is an eternity in politics.

The breaking through power meetings next week might be helpful too.

This “Civic Mobilization” will involve thousands of people at Constitution Hall and around the country and connect long-available knowledge to long-neglected action for the necessities and aspirations of people from all backgrounds. Many of the presentations will feature reforms and redirections for the common good enjoy Left/Right support.

Breaking Through Power: How it’s Done—May 23, 2016 will feature presentations by seventeen citizen advocacy groups. Over decades these activists have produced amazing accomplishments against powerful odds. These civic leaders will demonstrate how, with modest budgets and stamina, they have improved the health, safety and economic well-being of the people and focused public opinion onto decision-makers and opponents. Through greater visibility, broader support and wider emulation, they will present their future missions and show that it can be “easier than we think” to make major changes. For the first time ever, this diverse group of fighters for justice will be assembled together on stage at Constitution Hall and show that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts when fighting for a broader democratic society. The presenters will appraise what levels of citizen organization is necessary to fulfill these broadly-desired missions.

Breaking Through Power: The Media—May 24, 2016, brings together also for the first time a large gathering of authors, documentary filmmakers, reporters, columnists, musicians, poets and editorial cartoonists. All of these presenters have documented or depicted entrenched wrongdoing by the corporate state or “crony capitalism”—the cruel impacts of corporate crimes and abuses, the absence of governmental law enforcement, and the harmful effects of concentrated corporate power.

The speakers all seek wider audiences for their works: more readers, viewers and listeners. Unfortunately the mass media barons prefer to wallow in incessant advertising, hedonistic entertainment, sports and mind-numbing redundancy. The result is what many observers see as the stupefaction of human intelligence. A major purpose of Day Two is the creation of a “Voices” advocacy organization that puts forces in motion to inject serious programming into the over-the-air and cable networks under a revitalized Communications Act of 1934 and generally champion a greater life of the mind on all media.

Breaking Through Power: War—May 25, 2016 is dedicated to enhancing the waging of peace over the waging of war. We will assemble leading scholars having military and national security backgrounds, veterans groups such as Veterans for Peace, and long-time peace advocacy associations, to explain how peace is more powerful than war. The speakers will address the horrors of war, its huge costs here and abroad to innocents and the weakening blowbacks of Empire amidst a collapse of constitutional and international law. One outcome of this day will be the establishment of a Secretariat comprised of current and former top-level military, national security and diplomatic officials who have spoken truth to reckless power. If organized for quick responses, their credibility, experience and wisdom can resist and prevent the kind of prevaricating pressures and unilateral policies that drove the unlawful destruction of Iraq, Libya and beyond.

Breaking Through Power: Congress—May 26, 2016 will unveil a new Civic Agenda to be advanced by engaged and enraged citizens in each Congressional district. The Civic Agenda includes recognized necessities ignored by Congress for decades. The planks of this Civic Agenda will be presented by nationally-recognized advocates—a veritable brain trust for the well-being of present and future generations. Each speaker will present the substance of each demand, which will be conveyed to their members of Congress via organized “Citizen Summons” in each Congressional District. Revitalizing the people to assert their sovereignty under our Constitution is critical to the kind of government, economy, environment and culture that will fulfill human possibilities and respect posterity.

As always, I appreciate your thoughts Gerrit!

If we can unite we can divide and conquer .

You may have something there. Gandhi certainly had his share of rough, dangerous confrontations with those in positions of power. But I have the idea that he also fostered a somewhat joyful movement. You seem to be intimating something along those lines. I think many would approve of something like that. Somewhere today I read how badly we are all running out of time though. There is that element of time which throws a monkey wrench into things.