An essay was published here a few days ago titled "Why I am Voting For Hillary." While I respect the author for posting it here--"behind enemy lines," so to speak--I still felt that his reasoning was just the latest update of the same reasoning we hear every four years, which goes: You have to vote for the Democratic nominee because the Republicans are awful.

I concur: they are awful. And they'll likely always be awful. Yet some people are always trying to use this inescapable part of American political reality to justify all manner of backsliding by the other political party--you know, the one that claims to represent "the people."

So I would like to write a rebuttal here. Not of that article, but of that entire manner of thinking.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/colin-powell-donald-trump-has-no-...

Only one um, creature, that I know of has been truly able to encapsulate the U.S. political system in a simple to understand manner.

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Bernie Sanders was too much of a gentlemen to do this, but he probably could have routed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries by a large enough margin to overcome all the blatant cheating and voter disenfranchisement --- had he added this kind of attack line into his daily campaigning each day:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEE_K5UPY64 width:640 height:480]

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While it's true that the powers of the wealthy class were flash frozen in the US Constitution, the slave-owning authors forgot to include "practical" election laws, cutting us some slack here on the 21st century plantation. It was a good thing. We live twice as long as they did and their ideas of political process scale poorly and are too easy to exploit. Their processes were timed for communications that could travel faster than the speed of a horse. It was this kind of limited thinking that begat the many laws and systems that limit social progress and human rights in the US.

But in our advanced world, there are workarounds that can unlock the chains that distort our social development and make our civilization so cruel. The Internet, for example, will allow for the rapid deployment of a Voting Coalition, one with the potential to weaken and topple the corrupted Democratic Party in November. Sanders-the-Outsider demonstrated to Americans that an Internet coalition can expand rapidly and he proved that it can organize and sustain itself effectively.

Bill's in the Beltway basement,
Mixin’ up the medicine,
I’m on the pavement,
Thinkin’ about the government.
Debbie at the DNC,
Rigged it all for Hillary,
Told Bernie to fuck off,
Everybody's pissed off . . .

I used to care about the Democratic Party, but it's not the Democratic Party anymore. I used to care about elections, but there aren't elections anymore. I used to care about America, but this isn't America anymore.