by Ralph
Nader
Before
announcing for President in the Democratic Primaries, Bernie Sanders
told the people he would not run as an Independent and be like
Nader—invoking the politically-bigoted words “being a spoiler.”
Well, the spoiled corporate Democrats in Congress and their
consultants are mounting a “stop Bernie campaign.” They believe
he’ll “spoil” their election prospects.
Sorry
Bernie, because anybody who challenges the positions of the
corporatist, militaristic, Wall Street-funded Democrats, led by
Hillary Clinton, in the House and Senate—is by their twisted
definition, a “spoiler.” It doesn’t matter how many of Bernie’s
positions are representative of what a majority of the American
people want for their country.
What comes
around goes around. Despite running a clean campaign, funded by small
donors averaging $27, with no scandals in his past and with
consistency throughout his decades of standing up for the working and
unemployed people of this country, Sanders is about to be Hillaried.
Her Capitol Hill cronies have dispatched Congressional teams to Iowa.
The shunning
of Bernie Sanders is underway. Did you see him standing alone during
the crowded State of the Union gathering?
Many of the
large unions, that Bernie has championed for decades, have endorsed
Hillary, known for her job-destroying support for NAFTA and the World
Trade Association and her very late involvement in working toward a
minimum wage increase.
National
Nurses United, one of the few unions endorsing Bernie, is not fooled
by Hillary’s sudden anti-Wall Street rhetoric in Iowa. They view
Hillary Clinton, the Wall Street servant (and speechifier at $5000 a
minute) with disgust.
Candidate
Clinton’s latest preposterous pledge is to “crack down” on the
“greed” of corporations and declare that Wall Street bosses are
opposing her because they realize she will “come right after them.”
Because
Sanders is not prone to self-congratulation, few people know that he
receives the highest Senatorial approval rating and the lowest
disapproval rating from his Vermonters than any Senator receives from
his or her constituents. This peak support for an avowed “democratic
socialist,” comes from a state once known for its rock-ribbed
conservative Republican traditions.
Minority
House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi has unleashed her supine followers to
start wounding and depreciating Sanders. Pelosi acolyte Adam Schiff
(D. California) tells the media he doubts Sanders’s electability
and he could have “very significant downstream consequences in
House and Senate races.”
Mr. Schiff
somehow ignores that the House and Senate Democratic leadership
repeatedly could not defend the country from the worst Republican
Party in history, whose dozens of anti-human, pro-big business votes
should have toppled many GOP candidates. Instead, Nancy Pelosi has
led the House Democrats to three straight calamitous losses (2010,
2012, 2014) to the Republicans, for whom public cruelties toward the
powerless is a matter of principle.
Pelosi threw
her own poisoned darts at Sanders, debunking his far more
life-saving, efficient, and comprehensive, full Medicare-for-all plan
with free choice of doctor and hospital with the knowingly misleading
comment “We’re not running on any platform of raising taxes.”
Presumably that includes continuing the Democratic Party’s practice
of letting Wall Street, the global companies and the super-wealthy
continue to get away with their profitable tax escapes.
Pelosi
doesn’t expect the Democrats to make gains in the House of
Representatives in 2016. But she has managed to hold on to her post
long enough to help elect Hillary Clinton—no matter what Clinton’s
record as a committed corporatist toady and a disastrous militarist
(e.g., Iraq and the War on Libya) has been over the years.
For Pelosi
it’s bring on the ‘old girls club,’ it’s our turn. The
plutocracy and the oligarchy running this country into the ground
have no worries. The genders of the actors are different, but the
monied interests maintain their corporate state and hand out their
campaign cash—business as usual.
Bernie
Sanders, however, does present a moral risk for the corrupt
Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee, which are
already turning on one of their own leading candidates. His years in
politics so cleanly contrasts with the sordid, scandalized,
cashing-in behavior of the Clintons.
Pick up a
copy of Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash, previewed early in 2015 by
the New York Times. Again and again Schweizer documents the
conflicted interest maneuvering of donors to the Clinton Foundation,
shady deals involving global corporations and dictators, and huge
speaking fees, with the Clinton Foundation and the State department
as inventories to benefit the Clintons. The Clintons embody what is
sleazy and harmful about their political intrigues.
If and when
Bernie Sanders is brought down by the very party he is championing,
the millions of Bernie supporters, especially young voters, will have
to consider breaking off into a new political party that will make
American history. That means dissolving the dictatorial two-party
duopoly and its ruinous, unpatriotic, democracy-destroying corporate
paymasters.
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