What can we accomplish now? Where do we go from here? What will our political revolution look like in December 2016?
Bernie wants to start over from the ground up: elect progressive candidates starting at the local level. I admire his leadership in this endeavor and certainly will pay attention to all of the 'troops on the ground' who engage in heroic feats of victory.
I expect to receive a lot of negativity for this essay. I'm okay with that. I care more about facts than I do the opinions of others, and I am aware that truth can hurt more than bullshit can, and that people lash out when they hurt.
I don't quite remember what turned me on to the "End Citizens' United PAC," but I signed up some months (maybe years?) ago. I have been getting emails from them for quite some time. Over the course of this election season, the emails have been moving to more partisan Democrat in nature. I accepted that because it is primarily Democrats who want to end that ruling. After the email I received today, I had to unsubscribe. I received an email soliciting donations for...Hillary Clinton.
This fallacy keeps popping up during US elections even though it is clearly multiply self contradictory and oxymoronic.
First allow me to jog your memory.
Back in February, President Obama said this:
I'm no fan of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but at the same time I also recognize the strategic position Turkey occupies in the world. Erdogan is a dictator, but at the same time you don't destroy relations with a NATO ally for vague and mysterious reasons.
Yet, that appears to be exactly where things are heading.
There. I said it. If there's one thing that both the presumptive queen and her living puppet have proven throughout this entire clusterfuck of an election season, it's that neither of them are fit to hold public office.
Some people are willing to hold their nose and make the choice between the slow-acting poison and the gunshot to the head, but that's one choice I refuse to make. This is a literal Hobson's Choice here.
The refusal of officials in Texas to accept the fact that some kids are transgender (and what that means to how they should be treated) is raising concerns as the school year rapidly approaches.
Hillary Clinton strategist Bob Beckel called for WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to be assassinated. #DNCLeak pic.twitter.com/9L2ixl24Er
