It is Hillary suporters who resort to name calling without expalanation and sheepish bleats of she is winning in the polls over and over rather than discuss issues. do you not realize we do not judge Hillary by what others think but by our ownanalysis of facts we observe regarding her history and stated positions on issues most important to us. We are not sheepish followers as are Hillary supporters but proud and loud supporters of the positions held by Bernie, annd not universally supported in any way by Hillary. We resent your ridiculous and unsupported comments. It is often heard in democratic party meetings that we must most importantly elect any democrat over any republican and must not therefore wound Hillary by direct comparisons with Bernie and further stating to so do would be akoin to treason to the party itself. When I first heard this I felt if a fair campaign could be waged on the issues by both sides I could do this. But after recognizing the Imapct of large oligarchy donors on the Hillary campaign, the purchased main stream media support of Hillary and their desire to avoid except to attack Bernie's position without justiifcation, I had to back away from that willingness not to make direct comparisons. I am now convinced that the democratic party has moved away from support of the people following money from the rich and acting to calm the people and prevent a revolt against rich donors who fund campaigns of democrats.
After a while I have changed my mind and now work only for Bernie rather than a party- you see Bernie gets me because he is me and he is the people in our minds just as we know he knows we are him because we share the same progressive
values. This revolution has continued in our minds for decades as we fought for good in our community and against third way democratic, it was expanded to the young people gaining wisdom and forming the Occupy movement which added needed notoriety to our cause of remedying the wrongs instituted by the oligarchy. Occupy united the young and the the people. Many of the young people were not knowledgeable about the ways the oligarchy was responsible for the bleak present and future they correctly saw for themselves and listened to brilliant activists like Bill McKibben and economists like Chomsky and Wolf, and progressive Senators for the people like Senator Warren, Senator Sherrod Brown, and Senator Bernie Sanders. Thus the young people embraced the values of the older activists forever enshrining those ideas and creating the beginning of the ongoing revolution to amplify that most basic desire of our people and that is the desire to make the best lives and futures we can make from their collective will as expressed by true democracy. AS it became known that progressive attitudes were more mainstream and influential economists around the world and here at home began to speak to us about the threats the rich oligarchy posed to our financial and physical health with their ever increasing demand we work more for less and their pollution of pour coiuntry through polluting our air and water in their ever increasing production of fossil fuels for sale. Wars in the middle east are now pretty much universally seen as originating from desires for oil riches. The folly of our willingness to install and depose their tyrants have been revealed first in Iran and now most blatantly in these wars within Iraq and Syria. Our past and continued support of those we receive the best oil deals from is on display as Saudi Arabia funds ISIS and other Sunni Muslim groups seeking to destroy Shiite or non-sectarian countries governments in the middle east. Even worse NATO member Turkey has been purchasing the black market oil that ISIS sells, so we have a NATO country who has signed a mutual protection treaty with other members working with ISIS an avowed enemy of NATO and the USA. And not to long ago Turkey had the 5th most capable army in the world according to military estimates. So now we are down that hole that capitalism has dug for us. No one can trust us to defend -people or democracy or even human rights when they see crony and unbridled capitalism is ruling our foreign affairs with an inhuman and unfeeling hand in its everlasting search for more wealth.
We are awakening to the souce of our problems here at home and recognize that it creates our wars, destroys our welfare, and the planet. Only one candidate has directly attacked the crony capitalist purchase of our government and theft of our democracy by the oligarchy and since it is the answer to who is responsible for so many woes, the people as they hear the dots connected are demanding loudly and more loudly that this has to end before more damage is done. No, the revolution is not about Bernie, it did not start with him and it would not die if he did not exist any longer. It is a revolution of thought, a true enlightenment of the people who will not rest until their democracy is in place. Bernie's election would be a great accomplishment but the revolution is on and cannot be stopped with platitudes , ingratiations, and crumbs of the oligarchy doled out by their chief negotiator Hillary Clinton. The progressive base of the country is uniting in a call for their commonwealth throu for his civilgh democracy. That call is no-partisan, partisan, and bipartisan. In any way it is our attempt to reconcile our reality with what we have been told to value utmost in our civics and history classes even though most of those books hid the sins of the rich oligarchy throughout our entire history as a Nation. They use this message of freedom and democracyto stir us to fight their wars and support their candidates,and they stirred us to hate against other races, other countries and even our own countrymen based on their based on lies which fed our fears and insecurities creating convenient scapegoats and protecting their commanding role in our misfortunes. The genie is out of the bottle, and the genie is the truth, and that truth leads us to a political revolution, a revolution that will spread throughout our country and support peoples revolution over the world against oppression. Here at home, we want a peaceful political revolution and only can hope the establishment controlled by the oligarchy does not react with the unwarranted force our police often do now when blinded with non-factual information, or lack of possible training or respect for the dignity of the public based on perceived political powerlessness of the victim and/or assumed false threat to their own safety. We need Bernie and soon. Obama was seen as an example of an advancement in equality. Bernie is a further advancement. In some ways this can be likened to struggles of another famous democratic socialist. Martin Luther King Jr. is so well renowned for his civil rights accomplishments to achieve. But so ofen we are not reminded that he was killed when his message turned to fighting against economic inequality and for a better share of income for the worker. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered after he was perceived as a substantial threat to the rich oligarchy., as was John Kennedy, and Bobby Kennedy if you notice. What happened on that graasy knoll in Dallas or in the sewer under it may never truly be ascertained but we do know that Kennedy fought the establishment, as did Bobby Kennedy who already hated them due to his brothers death and looked to become President, and Martin Luther King Jr.
was preaching against the inequities and the wars we fought at their behest around the world. When threatening to overthrow the control of the country by the rich established oligarchy our champions have been murdered. Like the slaves after defeat by Roman soldiers of Spartacus, when told they would avoid death by telling which was Spartacus, we must all yell loudly that we are all progressives against the oligarchy and for democracy. We must remove those who would subvert this goal from the democratic party, and expand the direction and number of our party united in this most important cause. If Bernie wins great, but if not we will continue to increase our efforts in this cause. If we wins, we will have solidified in the minds of our nation that the people can win and then move on to steps leading to election of legislators who work for their constituents rather than large donors. Go Bernie for democracy!
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As much as you wish they were.
