Sanders worries Trump who likes Clinton

Sanders worries Trump who likes Clinton

Clinton plays by Trump’s "crooked" Hillary frame, whereas Sanders follows his and the peoples’ plan.

At this point very hypothetical odds are fairly even between Clinton and Trump.

This is despite him understandably holding back so there would be no last minute upset in favour of the Sanders he is afraid of.

Accordingly, on the eve of the California primaries, both, Clinton and Trump chickened out of debating Bernie Sanders.

Unfortunately progressive and liberal opinion leaders are too timid to face the realities of conflict with false populism. 

One by one they are readying themselves, and unfairly also massaging the wider public, to swallow more betrayals from Clinton against ordinary people. Latest example: TPP flipflop of June 24, 2016 during platform talks.

Bernie Sanders right now needs a much more robust support than what he is receiving from those who write, talk and hopefully think.

Unless Sanders becomes nominated in Philadelphia as Democratic Party candidate, Trump owns the economic card and, surprise, has been handed decisively the democratic rights card by Clinton's TPP about-turn. 

With impeccable timing only days before Brexit and Clinton's overconfidence in reasserting her never seriously shaken bow to TPP, Trump doubled down against undemocratic free-trade deals. 

He correctly invoked that TPP and NAFTA are unlawful, anti-market-trade and protectionist in handing the taxation privileges of Kings to cartels like Big Pharma, Big Oil and Wall Street, so they can control, fleece and starve people.

"Hillary Clinton has also been the biggest promoter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will ship millions more of our jobs overseas – and give up Congressional power to an international foreign commission."

That's right, he has clued in on Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions that follow the NAFTA Chapter 11 Investment template. 

Multinationals are legislating, by extorting from the people severe financial penalties levied against democratic laws they don’t like, in illegal offshore arbitration panels. 

Like the TPP, the Atlantic free-trade deal, TIPP, has another NAFTA Chapter 11 copycat provision. ISDS is what free-trade is all about. Clearly without ISDS free-trade deals are not logical, for better or worse. To hide this fact there is much filler fluff.

It is true because removals or adjustments of trade tariffs, without an undemocratic agenda, are simply added on to GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs).

Think about it, phoney free-trade deals in the November election will be much more commandeering than even with Brexit. 

Trump fires straight back the ammunition Clinton hands him without even needing anymore his trademark distortions.

Building a grassroots movement is great, but don't people agree the nomination fight is over when its over after the super delegates vote, and not before? They may be corrupt, I grant everybody that, but they might also get more scared by the hour? 

Without seizing this very moment the opportunity for an FDR - Bernie Sanders kind of a Presidency may deflect away into space, not to return in a 1000 years.

A lot of good can happen in a month's time especially if well meaning media are not throwing in the towel prematurely and not lose courage to give Sanders for President a fair chance.

A battle can be lost, but what are chances next time, if this fight is not carried down to the wire, measuring out the opponent close enough so one might win or get hurt? Predictabilities have gone out the window for good.

Brexit occurred even without blunders and betrayals on the Clinton scale.

Here is what will happen, come November, if the super delegates in Philadelphia are not (symbolically) persuasively whacked in the head.

What they need to be made to understand, by hook or by crook, Jim Ruth managed to put straight in the Washington Post on June 28, 2016, and it is this.

Outside of the groupthink of Washington beltway pundits, with their rigged Democratic Party primaries, Hillary Clinton has become unelectable. 

It is an unpleasant fact on the road ahead, much closer to the earth than the academic ivory towers some live, think and feed themselves in.

Walter Benjamin in 1936 wrote The Storyteller, a tract in which he defends the importance of an understanding out of ones experience, against spoon-fed and emotionally flat information.

Then there is William Butler Yeats who also knew something about vigour to fight evil.

The current drama is perhaps best captured by the haunting lines out of his poem Second Coming, which Yeats wrote under the impact still of WW1 cataclysms:

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity"

Those who are against the people keep advertising the lesser evil and have facilitated an ever growing greater evil. These neoliberals are forcing the very adult kind of a paradox, that with sadness and resolve Jim Ruth expresses.

In their heart of hearts people know that one can fight enemies, but only after traitors are dealt with.

First line of Ruth's so far unheeded warning in The Washington Post:

"No Donald Trump campaign buttons or bumper stickers for me."

Ruth's last word: 

"We hate Donald Trump, but he might just get our vote.”