Bernie Finally Admits It!!
Lee Camp has been on a vacation break recently, but is still posting once in a while. He'll be back tomorrow to his usual schedule. But anyway, recently he posted this short clip from one of his UnRedacted shows which, I think, is pretty darn important. Bernie finally admits that the election system is rigged!
Duh!
Yesterday (Tuesday) there was an article in the news: 'Bill Clinton suggests US is more likely to elect female president if candidate is Republican'. Bill Clinton basically said that the first woman elected would probably be from the right wing. I wanna tell him all the upper ranks of his party are center or right-wing too. Hah.
The thing is, I've known this little truth for a long, long time. In English type countries, like America, Canada, Australia, UK (not New Zealand, go New Zealand!) the dislike isn't really over gender, it's over politics, and maybe over the way the person running for high office rose into their role in those politics. Electing a right-wing woman is easier than electing a supposed left-wing woman, especially if the right-wing woman has a political history of her own and is not riffing off that of her husband. An example: Thatcher (whom I despised), in the UK, had her own political history. She wasn't there because of who her husband was and the positions he'd 'served' in.
NOT her husband, but close enough, heh. (from the Washington Times)
Stuff!
Elections, Statues and Cowboys...
“History reproducing itself becomes Farce.
Farce reproducing itself becomes History.”
~ Jean Baudrillard
Seems we lost Every major race that would determine a "blue wave" or not. Every last stinkin' one! Canova?? Please. He got a whopping 5%. A beatdown of epic proportions! Beto?? A dud. Georgia Gov.?? fuhgetaboutit. Rick Scott, Scott Walker?? One's going to the Senate, the other waiting a recount, but likely retains his Gov. seat. Did the Dims win anywhere??
Last Thursday’s Northern Ireland Assembly Elections can be used as an example of Proportional Representation for those who are new to the idea. Both parts of Ireland use a form of Proportional Representation known as Single Transferable Vote where each person has one vote which will generally get transferred to others than their first choice.
STV works as follows.
Each constituency is assigned a number of seats, in this case, each constituency has 5 seats.
Austria and Italy election results
Austrian centre-left candidate wins, 53-47
Italy: NO wins referendum; Renzi to resign.
The Clinton campaign either convinced wavering Stein voters to vote against the Donald, or they got discouraged enough about the whole mess that they didn't bother, but the math is real simple. And the simple math punctures part of the "denial" phase of grief that Clinton supporters will go through, in which they deny that it was Clinton's fault, since if people on the left who oppose a majority of Clinton's policy agenda had just voted for her, why, she would have pulled it off.
Looking at some of my local CA races after voting a few weeks ago, it seems obvious that many Bernie Sanders supporters had no idea who the other legitimate liberals in the downticket races were. Bernie got 45% of the Democratic vote based on official numbers, so I expected that the rare Democrats that supported Bernie would at least capture a decent amount of his voters in their respective areas. Unfortunately, that was the case (at least in my areas).
On June 6, AP and NBC made the call that Hillary Clinton was the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. This profoundly undemocratic move bypassed the pending primary elections in six states, and is a message to voters: “You don’t matter. We (the corporate media, and corporate lobbyists) are in charge of your elections.”
Why call the election before the voters vote? So they won’t vote, of course.
