There will be confrontation at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Confrontation in the committees, confrontation in the delegations, confrontation on the floor of the convention and confrontation in the streets.

Why is confrontation coming?

It's coming because there’s a sign on the wall. Because there’s always a wall. Because there's always a damn sign on it. The rich put up the walls and their bought-and-paid-for-politicians plaster Vote For Me Again signs all over them.

It's coming because there's blood on the flag. Because there's always a flag. Because there's always blood on it. The flags are waved and boots-on-the-ground soldiers splatter innocent blood all over them.

It's coming because there are criminals in the "government". Because there's always a "government". Because "governments" always degenerate into crime syndicates. Because lies are told and power is abused and justice is obstructed at every level of them.

That's why.

We've seen the sun go down too many times. We've seen it sink below the horizon, leaving working families in darkness, leaving the rule of law in darkness, leaving civil liberties in darkness, leaving democracy itself in darkness. The sun has gone down over everything we care about, over everything that matters.

The sun has set, leaving this entire nation in darkness, in the darkness of greed, in the darkness of deceit, in the darkness of fascism.

It's been rising ever since Bernie Sanders began his campaign for the Presidency. He's campaigned across this country, telling the truth about establishment politicians who reward the powerful and punish the powerless, telling the truth about corrupt bankers who regulate Congress instead of Congress regulating them, telling the truth about racist police who kill black children and call it law enforcement, about corporate media hacks who cut-and-paste plutocrat talking points and call it journalism, about shameful judges who fill America's prisons with the poor and call it justice.

The huge crowds at every Bernie rally in every primary state from the Atlantic to the Pacific have a message for America . . .

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We are shining the Light of Political Revolution on the evil of this national security state, on the evil of endless wars for profit, on the evil of mass incarceration, on the evil of corporate capitalism, on the evil of aggression and oppression and corruption.

William Faulkner . . .

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have become, refuse to bear them.

So the crimes of Wall Street can't be hidden anymore, so the crimes of the Pentagon can't be hidden anymore, so the crimes of Pfizer and Merck and Exxon/Mobil and Monsanto can't be hidden anymore, so the treachery of the CIA and the NSA and the NRA can't be hidden anymore.

So the wages of working people can't be stolen by the Fortune 500 and the Forbes 400 and the Waltons and the Kochs and the Murdochs anymore, so the voices of progressives can't be silenced by the dirty money of the Clinton Foundation and the Hillary Victory Fund and the DNC anymore, so recall elections and primary elections and general elections can't be rigged by the Oligarchy for the next thousand years.

There will be confrontation in Philadelphia because what should be alive is dead, because what should be dead is alive, because what should be set free is bound, because what should be bound is set free, because the political system is broken, because the economic system is broken, because the justice system is broken, because we can't believe the news today, we can't just close our eyes and make it go away . . .

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LET . . . THERE . . . BE . . . LIGHT