Hillary will be the nominee two years hence. Not Warren. Not Sanders.

[Jackpine Radical]

86. If age counts for anything here, let me say

FDR was President when I was born & I remember Sputnik very well. The money for science education equipment came pouring in from a panicked US government just as I started high school. On a much smaller scale, my friends & I lived October Sky.

All that said, I don't know if Hillary will get the nom. Barring some unforeseen events, she likely will. And if elected, she will continue on a hawkish, 1%-er, Wall Street & Walton-informed course, somewhat to the right of Obama on many issues. And that will be too bad.

On the other hand, I don't know that either Bernie or Liz would stand much of a chance in the General if nominated. Just too much money and an actively hostile Mainslime Media against them. After the betrayals of the past 2 decades from the FCC and the more recent Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions, I don't know if any sort of leftward movement is possible within the American political machine any more.

I guess about the only way to effect radical change in the world of today is through radical means, and I don't see that happening until economic and ecological conditions reach the breaking point and the great mass of the world's people realize that they have nothing left to lose.

In that context, I am reminded of Niccolo Macchiavelli, who carefully advised "the Prince" that he must leave the peasants enough crumbs so that they had something to lose if they arose against the Crown. Our modern oligarchs seem to have forgotten that lesson, and that failure might yet prove to be their downfall: "This time is different; we don't need to leave anything for the peasants because they will shortly all be dead while we sail away in our floating kingdoms, with just enough of them--carefully selected--on board to see to our every need."