This is much bigger than an election... [View all]

[nadinbrzezinski]

Last edited Wed May 18, 2016, 04:48 PM - Edit history (2)

Yeah, yeah, Clinton will likely be the nominee... and as I said yesterday, I really do not give a fig anymore who the democratic party nominates. Becuase this is much bigger than them. Some of you have accused me of being in Sanders camp for pushing back on the catapulting of your propaganda. Well I am not. Who I vote for is my business, even if now I am positive it is just pretending to vote. Yes I expect to waste my time on June 7, filling a ballot I expect to go to the shredder. That is how much trust I have in the system at this point

One measure of oligarchies are controlled elections. This cycle has shown that side in spades. This is a process thing. There have been more than few issues... and yes you expect an issue or two during an election cycle This year we have seen more than just one or two There is an air of desperation within the system, and I do not mean just the party (and the republcians lost that battle to contain the ginny. This is one marked by anger at the man to use a 1960s term.

So let's tell you why those seeds have been planted. While you sound like third year college students talking about safe spaces... and white privilege, here they are. (For the record safe space talk irks me, and white privilege is very real)



This poverty rate as of 2012 shows a trend where it is leaving the urban core and entering the subborbs (When some folks fixate on spelling, instead of issues, is speaks about them bullying and not caring about the major point made, They are bellow for the hosts). It has not gone down by the way And it is now around you.

According to the GAO

The measure of poverty currently in use was developed some 50 years ago, and was adopted as
the “official” U.S. statistical measure of poverty in 1969. Except for minor technical changes, and
adjustments for price changes in the economy, the “poverty line” (i.e., the income thresholds by
which families or individuals with incomes that fall below are deemed to be poor) is the same as
that developed nearly a half century ago, reflecting a notion of economic need based on living
standards that prevailed in the mid-1950s.

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33069.pdf

I know that other organizations, my county among them, are using a newer definition that actually makes those numbers look far worst. But they had to. The federal threshold is too low in the 4th most expensive city in the country.

Food insecurity, yes it has also gone up.. currently it stands at 48 million of your friends and neighbors do not know when their next meal is coming.

http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hunger/hunger-and-poverty/hunger-and-poverty-fact-sheet.html?gclid=CJPntsmJ5MwCFcdhfgodn9EGvA?referrer=https://www.google.com/

Oh it gets better, in spite of the ACA, which incidentally rates will go through the roof this year since a lot of the subsidies are going away, those were to the states, medical bankruptcies continue, and yes even SNOPES has said this is happening... so spare me with the propaganda. And I do know people that RIGHT NOW cannot afford the ACA at the bronze level.

http://www.snopes.com/643000-bankruptcies-in-the-u-s-every-year-due-to-medical-bills/

And we have insurance companies that will leave the exchanges, among them United Health Care. That could spell the end of the exchanges medium term.. which in case you need a translation means back to square one.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/19/investing/unitedhealthcare-obamacare-exchanges-aca/

College costs continue to go up.

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/11/15/college-tuition-costs-continue-rise

Issues of the criminal justice system, and the treatment of POC within it.

Climate change... well I will spare you on that one. I now know many of you still think it is far in the future and you will not live though the consequences. I know better. But I will respect your socially enforced silence on it.

I could go on. These are not partisan issues. These are life and death issues issues that are driving people to quiet levels of desperation. and yes, radicalization. They affect everybody, white, black, brown. Asian. if we had people from the moon, they would be affected too.

Yes, I predict right now that long standing goals of the GOP will be accomplished in the next four years. Yes I expect Social Security to be on the bargain table. Why? Becuase these are also neo liberal policies. that are being implemented world wide, This is part of the austerity plans used in places like Chile first, and Greece now, and those are coming home. Moreover, it was Obama's idea to triangulate with the Grand Bargain... it was the partisanship of Congress that prevented that.

History is prologue...

So yes, Madam president, assuming you even get elected since your party is splitting and many will not vote for you, since they have reasons going back months to decades, enjoy your victory. Those issues are not going away. And do enjoy your right wing party as well. You won, enjoy the victory. You are lucky that conservadems don't discuss this shit. After Ayotzinapa there was a Mexican saying that started to be used by the kids in the streets.



They wanted to bury us, but they did not know we were seeds.

The US already has seen some civil unrest. Starting with the battle of Seattle in 1991, which was a battle against globalization... every so often we see spasms. 1999, students at Berkeley rose up, and that spread state wide. Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, yes both Trump and Sanders are symptoms of this. It is not going away. This is much bigger than an election. But huzzah, the system is still able to protect itself against the rabble.

And I was reminded bellow of the protests over Prop 187 in California. Thanks. I would have to add also the protests against the war in 2003, that were ignored by major media. And Mike M asked me to include Idle no More, originally starting in Canada...

http://www.idlenomore.ca/

And others that I am starting to remember, sorry so many, are the multiple demonstrations against La Migra in California. and the El Bordo meetings. And of course, that is because we are at a border town, but this included other places solidarity marches for ayotzinapa.

John Fitzegrald Kennedy, who is too liberal for the modern day democratic party, warned on his inaugural address that those nations that did not allow a peaceful revolution, would ensure the violent kind. I am proof positive he was thinking of the countries behind the Iron Curtain. It took about a generation for his words to become actual revolutions. They did not involve bullets, but the ballot box. We might question whether those revolutions produced good or bad results, but they were change, well not everywhere were they peaceful... I mean Caucescu would argue how he was deposed and executed was not quite peaceful, but for the most part they were mostly ballot revolutions.

The United States right now finds itself in a similar situation. A system that is responsive to less and less people, and is not responding to the needs of the many, and with levels of income inequality not seen since 1929. Those who prevent peaceful positive change and continue to sneer and demean the left are in for a surprise. But we have Fusion Centers so I am sure that will be nipped in the bud... but only for so long. Even police states do fall. Ask East Germany...

You keep bandying about how the I want my country back is the white good old boys. I have heard that expression at many a rally, some of it at times proceeded by Si se Puede, yes we can. That is an echo not from Obama, but Cesar Chavez by the way. I have also heard this at rallies with African Americans. People want a country where they can make it, and their children can make it. They want a country where their children will have a better future. That country is gone. We used to have it.

I know I am talking to people who are likely wealthier and well to do, and chiefly comfortable. You have no idea of the quiet desperation and anger out there.

We are seeds... beware of the whirlwind.

And yes at this point, many of us will have to welcome both your hate and fear. This is much bigger than an election... there are forces stirring... they have been stirring for a while. Enjoy. The future should be fun... like a root canal. Ask for anesthesia, it might be more tolerable that way.

Oh and talk about you do not vote for my candidate will make you responsible for the loss of my candidate will fall on deaf ears. Those threats no longer work. If you need to know why... re-read the full thing.