Hi,
Just in case you haven't gotten the email reminder from Bernie, due to Hillary and the DNC rigging all the spam filters to auto-junk Bernie emails.
Tonight is the end of the month; last chance to donate to Bernie during the primary!
1) Send a clear signal that We Are All Still Bernin
2) Ensure Bernie has the money on hand to win CA and the other soon to vote state
UpChuck started off with EmailGate. A fairly accurate description.
Then, he interviewed Bernie.
Bernie said he wants to go to the convention with the majority of the "pledged" delegates. He admitted he is 240 down, and that he faces an uphillary climb. But the maths ain't agin him. He can win.
the Toad tried to hammer Bernie on his message to super delegates, and Bernie just creamed it with his response.
Santa Maria is in the "central Coast" of California and it's my home. Amongst other things it is a red blob flowing in a sea of blue. However, Bernie enthusiasts filled the high school football stadium (capacity 5,000). It was a great crowd. Met many interesting, and always friendly, people from teenage to my age (and I'm not telling') Enthusiasm--man, I wish I could bottle it for later use. All kinds of Bernie gear being hawked outside the stadium, just like at a football game.
The plans to set us up for repression at the Philadelphia convention are all too transparent. Nevada was a first step. Having been a movement leader in 1968 I can see the similarities in the oligarchy's strategies but there are huge differences in the context.
If this entire primary has shown me one thing, it's that those who hold the levers of power want us to be afraid. Very afraid. I saw this in 2004, 2008 and in 2012 as well, but back in those days it wasn't so blatant as it is today. In 2008 I voted for Ralph Nader. And I'd do it again because the moment Obama won the primary that year he ran hard to the right from everything he claimed to support from Single Payer to same-sex marriage.
A PolitiFact piece headlined "Allegations of fraud and misconduct at Nevada Democratic convention unfounded" is going around. I'm not going to link to it because most people have seen it, and I don't want to give it the clicks. But I spent a fair amount of time looking through it last night, and I don't think it is fair. Here are my thoughts.
Does that sound funny to you? Think about it. It has been happening for a long time for a lot of people in this country. Bernie has been energizing people who have stayed at home in the past because they see a real choice in him.
I learned something from President Obama that I shall never forget. I learned that I am not as smart as I think I am. I learned that I forget hard learned lessons. Let me explain.
Anyone else have a problem supporting Bernie at the Political Animal?
Here's the link: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_05/does_sanders...
I linked to a Salon article and compared Hillary to Al Gore as an unlikeable policy wonk who would lose to Trump.
Has the Political Animal gone full DNC establishment?
I apologize in advance for this crappy excuse for a diary, but I'm experiencing a repetitive motion-induced pain up and down my arm and really shouldn't be on a keyboard today!
However, I saw a link to this article on Twitter. It's about 3 weeks old. It's the clearest analysis of the election I've seen yet, and I wanted to draw folks' attention to it.
Here it is. I hope it's useful to you guys. The author is clear-headed and honest.
I had intended to write a piece about my impressions of this year's Primaries, some possible scenarios leading to various outcomes, and posit some questions as to why we have (or have not) seen certain moves by certain camps. I can still go there; but most of this has now been tsunami'd by the events of this past week, most notably the Nevada DemConv; furthermore the news that networks will no longer be hiring Exit Pollsters for the remaining Primaries.
