This is not an obituary of a late president, nor of departing Obama, but of a presidency we could have had. No, not of America’s first female president, either — a crooked election rigger, Wall Street shill, and arms dealer, whom we can be glad we were spared (though Trump with his cabinet composed of plutocratic oligarchs may not be much better).
I am on the Bernie Events slack team, one of 11 or so Slacks including my own Westchester4Bernie Slack, that I am on. The Sanders campaign made great use of Slack. Campaign staffers could share info with organizers such as myself, resources and knowledge shared in an instant.
It’s been on my mind for the better part of a year and I finally made my #DemExit last evening after having one last convention officially as a Democrat. I appreciate those of you whom I’ve had conversations with who’ve tried to get me to reconsider, so I feel an explanation is in order.
(My apologies to Thomas Jefferson)
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the citizen long guaranteed by our Constitution, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to that separation.
