Cross-posted from GOS.

Widely distributed income and wealth and the power and influence they confer within the public sphere are VITAL to democracy and justice. Real democracy and justice will not, cannot exist when income, wealth and power are highly concentrated.

Ever-increasing concentration of income, wealth and power has not always been, as many Democrats insist. It is not "normal," as many Democats insist. It is not inevitable, as many Democrats insist. (Consider the great expansion of the middle class during the middle of the last century as proof to the contrary.) Allowing bad things to happen, participating in bad things happening, as many Democrats do in supporting or otherwise allowing the neoliberalism embraced by the Party leadership, because they think it is normal, even desirable, and inevitable, is really what corruption is all about. The corruption of good intentions with money, comfort, convenience and/or bogus excuses, such as "normalcy" and "inevitability," for bad behavior.

As MLK so eloquently noted, the status of all justice ultimately depends first and foremost upon economic equity. Hide economic inequity behind false meritocracy all you want, it increases injustice of the tiny few against the multitudinous many, as well as whatever other injustices they may support and perpetuate to further their own cause. It's a bad deal to forfeit economic equity for anything else. Period. Only damn fools, useful idiots and self-serving opportunists will tell you otherwise.

Neoliberal Democrats may increase taxes on the wealthy and they may develop social programs for the poor, but when the midway is packed up and carried away, when the neoliberal administration leaves town, we all have far less wealth and influence over the future relative to the .1% than we did before it all began, when we cast our vote for it. Even with the neoliberal "Democrat" there instead of the Republican. The past few decades show that neoliberal Democrats somehow have fared no better in helping out the middle or lower classes relative to the .1% when the double entry bookkeeping is all done. Neoliberal Democrat or Republican, the .1% get stronger and we get weaker every single second. We trade trillions away for billions in return. We trade trillions in vast, unfettered mortgage and securities fraud, bailouts, corporate welfare, and on and on, for billions for ACA. This is not normal or inevitable and sure as fuck is no coincidence. It's the entire purpose of the neoliberal midway.

For the same reason, a Democrat who only votes Democrat on social issues but votes Republican on matters advancing plutocracy and oligarchy is of absolutely no help whatsoever. This is not white privilege talking. The only thing that matters in the end is do we have the political influence to assert and/or protect justice tomorrow? No social victory today is worth a good goddamn if it is traded for less income, wealth and, thus--in a capitalist society, especially neoliberal crony capitalism--political influence tomorrow, since that victory and all others, already won or not, depend upon tomorrow's influence. Why this is not OBVIOUS is one of the great mysteries of the age, and why I find it outrageous that people insult ME for villifying and refusing to support neoliberal candidates.

The Party circular firing squad is created by design when the neoliberals are invited into the wagon train. When the wagons of this train are drawn into a circle for defense of democracy, anyone with one firing neuron will return fire on the neoliberals whether or not they are in or outside the circle. It makes no difference where they stand or what they call themselves, neoliberals will sell us deeper into plutocracy, and that is the entire ballgame, folks. Plutocracy and democracy do not co-exist. No democracy, no justice.

HRC is a neoliberal. No amount of populist lip service will change that. You may be fooled by the shell game, as I was originally by Obama's (as TPP, especially secret fast-tracked TPP, only the latest treason, so amply demonstrates), but I am not fooled this time, not with HRC. Make no mistake about it: any gesture she would make to help the middle and/or lower classes would by the end of the day be offset many times over by far larger assistance to the upper class. She may not call them her base, grand triangulator that she is, but they are. Just as they were for her husband. W. was just more honest.

And it doesn't matter whether she is pro-this or that liberal cause, because in the end she is pro concentration of income, wealth and power. She is pro-plutocracy. She is pro-oligarchy. Don't let the sleight of hand or shiny objects of pro- this or that fool you. In the end, if she is elected, you and we all will be far less capable of fighting injustice thereafter. Period.

We like to say that rank-and-file Republicans are fools for voting against their own self-interests when they vote Republicans. Well, Democrats who vote for neoliberals of any stripe are no less fools. And I won't be fooled or brow-beaten into joining them.

There was a headline article on HuffPo that appeared and disappeared quite quickly yesterday morning. The title was something to the effect of "Wall Street Not Concerned" with a giant picture of HRC. The article explains how Wall St. is not concerned about the populist talk coming from HRC because they know it's just good politics if she's going to co-opt the Democratic Party for the oligarchy. [The article didn't actually disappear. Not entirely. It just was no longer at the top of the front page. Or anywhere on the front page. Or on the Politics page. So far as I was able to ascertain, it was only available if you searched something like Clinton Wall Street April 16 2015. And it was under the less emotionally and intellectually honest title: Hillary Clinton's Wall Street Backers: We Get It.. Moreover, yesterday, for the brief moment in time, the entire article appeared on HuffPo. Now, only a couple of sentences are there. The rest is on Politico. Coincidence?]

You may be willing to overlook her coziness with oligarchs. Not I. No more than I am willing to overlook Obama's involvement in TPP. It's no freakin' coincidence that Big Business, otherwise portrayed as a rival in the media, is willing to give him carte blanche to negotiate on its behalf for the TPP. But damn fools, useful idiots and opportunists are blinking.

These are not horse races people. They are horseshit. The whole thing is rigged to thwart justice for the many. Whatever accomplishments you think have been achieved have been bought with shackles, and that is the only kind of deal available to you in this system.

Anyone who tells you we can create meaningful change through this system, such as by filling seats at the bottom with real Democrats and then painstakingly promoting them up through the ranks until they fill every position at the top, is smoking some powerful shit. This system will spit out, convert, or compromise 99.99% of them.

So the ONLY way to deal with it, ultimately, is with a broadside applying means and rules not designed or sanctioned by the system. Which is why they have erected mass surveillance, to sniff out and exterminate any effort to organize and use the one advantage we otherwise have: numbers. And this is why they have militarized the police and created sanctions for pre-empting, marginalizing, and brutalizing dissenters. So, many thanks to those of you who support or otherwise ignore or deny the rise of mass surveillance and the police state in general.

Read my sig. I will not be voting for HRC or anyone else who will--despite token words or gestures to the contrary--do nothing but ensure that the .1% will be stronger and less accountable with each passing second.

Read my sig. I will not support her or anyone else who will don kevlar for the plutocracy in defense of oligarchs.

Upwards of 75% of the voting populace will not be voting for Democrats next year.

Please proceed.