#Come off the "Love Train"
The Sanders campaign is not adequately aggressive in fighting back Clinton's vote stealing and cover ups of her racism from Iowa to Nevada, the Carolinas, Arizona to California, which is how the primaries were lost.
The psychological force of robust political ancestors, who struggled with verve and spirit for abolition, women's vote and worker rights, doesn't allow a demobilizing language, ranging from unwomanly sappy to academically flat, coming anywhere near of achieving power.
The fact basis in the reporting of independent and some mainstream media proved Hillary Clinton's policies are racist to the core, yet writers voices often lack the stirring, gutsy delivery in getting people to listen.
Largely unexploited is Clinton's pushing for today's segregation and black mass incarceration which she embarked upon as campaigner for Barry Goldwater's and Richard Nixon's racist Southern Strategy.
Some observers are sucked in by an almost pathological ability for deception, such as through her singing along in black churches. However, in a 1996 interview with journalist Scott Simon the 48 year old states: "I am very proud that I was a Goldwater girl."
Many well meaning commentators, with their sanitizing or misplaced respect in critiquing Clinton, fall short of offering clarity to the public on the basic factual context of her racism. A dangerous awareness gap opened up where Clinton's army of Progeys weaselled through (neoliberal phoneys dressing as progressives).
Leading civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander understood this would happen and wrote in The Nation on Feb. 10, 2016: "In short, there is such a thing as a lesser evil, and Hillary is not it." and:
"I am inclined to believe it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself." (An indication that a capable Jill Stein is doing the responsible thing.)
From racism that includes Clinton's Walmart economy, fracking climate bomb, deceptive free trade, racialized predatory lending and race based access-blockage to education/medicare.
From illegal wars and coups against Honduras, Libya, Iraq, Ukraine and risking nuclear war with her planned no-fly-zone attack against a Russian military that is legal and invited in Syria.
William Butler Yeats also knew something about vigor to fight evil.
Today's pacifist numbness echoes in the perhaps most haunting verse of a century in his poem Second Coming, which Yeats wrote 1919 under the impact still of World War 1 cataclysms:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The proclaimed choice between Clinton and Trump is a fiction that has one purpose, selling out the grassroots to Wall Street. Fact is, in current low voter turn out scenarios few people switch between the symbiotic Blue and Red accomplices, many are demobilized not to vote at all.
Bernie Sanders has endorsed Clinton but he and the super delegates are still free, or even accountable, to reconsider the creepy reality that is closing in on them of Clinton and Trump actually supplementing each other, and give her the boot in Philly.
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