If you are going to vote for the establishment candidate why are you on Democratic Underground?

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110. In present circumstances, establishment IS a dirty word

Multiple, perpetual wars.

Raging income inequality.

The world's largest prison population.

Global climate change that threatens everything we know and love.

Republicans in control of both congressional houses, the result of years of establishment, corporate-funded Democratic strategies.

Mandated corporate health insurance.

A brutal police state to keep the lid on the blowback of poverty and disaffected citizens.

A vast and unprecented surveillance system that monitors prety much anything and everything an of us do, and records it for eternity, with access restricted to police and intelligence operatives.

Recent studies showing the complete uncoupling of what the public wants, and what legislation gets enacted, in a supposedly democratic nation.

I'm pretty sure I've left out some of the most egregious examples, just riffing off the top of my head.

In this context, establishment is the problem, and that establishment is the representation of corporate interests over populist interests, in both major parties.

We need a true "underground" political movement, not just victories for the corrporate wing of our party.

I wish it were not so and that I could just cheerlead for the team, it would be so much easier, but that is not even close to right action given our current context.