09-11-2016, 06:48 PM
Bob Kall's analysis
The combined machinationsof the DNC, Superdelegates and the Hillary Clinton campaign have set backDemocratic and progressive progress by 20 or more years. This article exploresthe damage done and who to blame.
Let's start with ascreaming reality. All the polls showed that Bernie would have done far betterthan Hillary in the general election. Bernie Sanders would have won. He wouldhave won big and his coat-tails would havecarried Russ Feingold and probably many other senate and house candidates.
There are a number oftargets for blame. But before we talk about who to blame, l let's talk aboutwhat the targets of blame should be blamed for:
1-rigging the Democraticprimary or allowing it to happen-- that would be rigging by the DNC, rigging bycollusion of the DNC, the Clinton Campaign and the MSM, rigging by localDemocratic committee people and other leaders who obstructed fair and openprimaries and problems with primary voting. Repeat studies have shown that eventhe vote counting was rigged for some of the primaries.
2-Loss of the Senate: ATop Down disaster-- the DNC leadership, with Obama rigged many state primaryelections for senate and house Democratic candidates-- designating losers basedon the criteria that they would be obsequious to the DNC.
3-Loss of the House. SameTop Down rigging problem. I believe that Bernie Sanders could have won theelection big, with huge coat-tails that could have carried many house races. Millennialsand independents who stayed home would have come out to vote, to engage inGOTV.
4-Loss of the Scaliareplacement seat on the Supreme Court and who knows how many more.
5-Loss of voters whoshifted from Democrat or left leaning independent to become Trump Supporters.
6-Corruption of themainstream media-- allowing and encouraging supposedly impartial media people tobecome flaming shills.
7-Corruption of thejustice system-- the DOJ and the USA's intelligence agencies.
8-rigging of the electionsystem. The Democrats were out-rigged. They should have learned up electionsover the last eight years and they didn't
Now, let's talk aboutwho's to blame. I'm sure that the rabid Hillbots-- the people who were thenastiest attackers of Bernie Sanders and his supporters, will blame BernieSanders and his supporters, especially the tiny fraction who supported JillStein or who stayed home. Sorry dears, but you were either so intoxicated thatyou were going to elect a first female president or you just bought the propaganda that Hillary was the "most experiencedpresidential candidate ever" nonsense.
Either way, you ignoredthe reality that she is a toxically, morbidly flawed, dishonest, corrupt,historically despised candidate. You deluded yourselves to believe that becauseshe'd been Secretary of State she had historic experience. The problem is, themajority of the people of America saw through her experience claims andbelieved what Bernie said, that her experience was bad experience, includingher voting for the Iraq war.
So, first to blame arethe Uber-Hillary supporters. They could have been awake and smart enough to,from the grass roots, bottom up, reject the DNC's massive selling of Hillary.
But next, and maybe evenmore, the DNC and the leadership of the Democratic party are to blame,collaborating with the mainstream media, particularly MSNBC and CNN, forrigging the primary and keeping the candidate who would have won by pullingindependents-- Bernie Sanders.
Start with the DNCleadership and the vast majority of Democratic power holders-- all theSuperdelegates who committed to Hillary before Bernie Sanders was even in therace. Some were bought by the Clinton foundation. Some were bought bycorporations and billionaires. A small few were fools and cowards. GiveElizabeth Warren that small benefit of the doubt-- that she was a fool or cowardand hadn't sold out. But be assured, shewas a big part of Trump's victory. She should have supported the onlyprogressive candidate.
There is only one waythat the people who consider themselves Democrats or left of Republican canrespond, and that is to excoriate, ban and purge ALL of the malignantly wrong,failed Democratic leaders. That should happen immediately at the bottom upgrass roots level, with an uprising that throws out all the state and localcommittee people who rigged their state primaries to favor Hillary or to favorthe House and Senate picks the corporate shills and power hungry fools at thetop of the DNC pecking order designated.
It's good that Harry Reidand Barack are leaving. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is supposedly gone, but, Idon't trust that she's really gone. Chris Van Hollen, who DWS replaced as DNChead is now a senator. He should be banned from participation in leadership.Charles Schumer, be assured, was a major influencer in helping to rig theDemocratic primary. He is on track to become the senate minority leader. Thatshould not happen. The Black Caucus PAC leaders who lied and distorted to supportHillary-- they should lose all influence and power in the actual Black Caucus.Most of the Progressive Caucus members in the House should be voted out ofoffice, except for the few who supported Bernie.
Of course, theseincompetent, politically malpracticing losers will blame the people who weretoo disgusted to vote for Hillary-- Berners, Millennials, people with theintegrity to refuse to vote for a lesserevil, lying, corrupt candidate hated by more than any Democratic candidate inmodern history.
The real blame for the#DemDisaster should be laid on the DNC and the rabid Hillary supporters whowere in total denial that a profoundly flawed, lying, corrupt, hated candidatecould somehow win.
Hillbots will blameBerners who voted 3rd party for her loss No! Your Awful judgment gave Trump theWhite House"""This was an election where people voted AGAINST a candidate.Hillary was more hated than Trump The DNC should have known. No. I'm sure theyknew and went ahead anyway. They read the pulse of America so badly that theyarrogantly, Top Down inflicted Hillary on the Democratic party.
Joe Scarborough says,"this morning that this is not a morning for the Republican establishment tocelebrate. This is a morning that the Republican establishment has been smashedinto a million pieces." If that's true then the Democratic establishment shouldbe smashed into a billion pieces.
Bottom line--
DNC and media Demleadership should be banned and purged, starting from the bottom up, or itwon't happen. Begin by running out the local committee people who did all theycould to prevent fair, open elections in the primaries. Don't buy theirinevitable excuses, that it was the Russian hackers faults or the fault of theless than one percent of people who voted for Jill Stein. This was an electionlost by the DNC.
2- MSNBC & CNN handedthe election to Trump by steamrolling over Sanders, setting up Clinton for herinevitable fall. Start watching the alternative TV shows and readingnews websites which never bought the DNC propaganda.
The combined machinationsof the DNC, Superdelegates and the Hillary Clinton campaign have set backDemocratic and progressive progress by 20 or more years. This article exploresthe damage done and who to blame.
Let's start with ascreaming reality. All the polls showed that Bernie would have done far betterthan Hillary in the general election. Bernie Sanders would have won. He wouldhave won big and his coat-tails would havecarried Russ Feingold and probably many other senate and house candidates.
There are a number oftargets for blame. But before we talk about who to blame, l let's talk aboutwhat the targets of blame should be blamed for:
1-rigging the Democraticprimary or allowing it to happen-- that would be rigging by the DNC, rigging bycollusion of the DNC, the Clinton Campaign and the MSM, rigging by localDemocratic committee people and other leaders who obstructed fair and openprimaries and problems with primary voting. Repeat studies have shown that eventhe vote counting was rigged for some of the primaries.
2-Loss of the Senate: ATop Down disaster-- the DNC leadership, with Obama rigged many state primaryelections for senate and house Democratic candidates-- designating losers basedon the criteria that they would be obsequious to the DNC.
3-Loss of the House. SameTop Down rigging problem. I believe that Bernie Sanders could have won theelection big, with huge coat-tails that could have carried many house races. Millennialsand independents who stayed home would have come out to vote, to engage inGOTV.
4-Loss of the Scaliareplacement seat on the Supreme Court and who knows how many more.
5-Loss of voters whoshifted from Democrat or left leaning independent to become Trump Supporters.
6-Corruption of themainstream media-- allowing and encouraging supposedly impartial media people tobecome flaming shills.
7-Corruption of thejustice system-- the DOJ and the USA's intelligence agencies.
8-rigging of the electionsystem. The Democrats were out-rigged. They should have learned up electionsover the last eight years and they didn't
Now, let's talk aboutwho's to blame. I'm sure that the rabid Hillbots-- the people who were thenastiest attackers of Bernie Sanders and his supporters, will blame BernieSanders and his supporters, especially the tiny fraction who supported JillStein or who stayed home. Sorry dears, but you were either so intoxicated thatyou were going to elect a first female president or you just bought the propaganda that Hillary was the "most experiencedpresidential candidate ever" nonsense.
Either way, you ignoredthe reality that she is a toxically, morbidly flawed, dishonest, corrupt,historically despised candidate. You deluded yourselves to believe that becauseshe'd been Secretary of State she had historic experience. The problem is, themajority of the people of America saw through her experience claims andbelieved what Bernie said, that her experience was bad experience, includingher voting for the Iraq war.
So, first to blame arethe Uber-Hillary supporters. They could have been awake and smart enough to,from the grass roots, bottom up, reject the DNC's massive selling of Hillary.
But next, and maybe evenmore, the DNC and the leadership of the Democratic party are to blame,collaborating with the mainstream media, particularly MSNBC and CNN, forrigging the primary and keeping the candidate who would have won by pullingindependents-- Bernie Sanders.
Start with the DNCleadership and the vast majority of Democratic power holders-- all theSuperdelegates who committed to Hillary before Bernie Sanders was even in therace. Some were bought by the Clinton foundation. Some were bought bycorporations and billionaires. A small few were fools and cowards. GiveElizabeth Warren that small benefit of the doubt-- that she was a fool or cowardand hadn't sold out. But be assured, shewas a big part of Trump's victory. She should have supported the onlyprogressive candidate.
There is only one waythat the people who consider themselves Democrats or left of Republican canrespond, and that is to excoriate, ban and purge ALL of the malignantly wrong,failed Democratic leaders. That should happen immediately at the bottom upgrass roots level, with an uprising that throws out all the state and localcommittee people who rigged their state primaries to favor Hillary or to favorthe House and Senate picks the corporate shills and power hungry fools at thetop of the DNC pecking order designated.
It's good that Harry Reidand Barack are leaving. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is supposedly gone, but, Idon't trust that she's really gone. Chris Van Hollen, who DWS replaced as DNChead is now a senator. He should be banned from participation in leadership.Charles Schumer, be assured, was a major influencer in helping to rig theDemocratic primary. He is on track to become the senate minority leader. Thatshould not happen. The Black Caucus PAC leaders who lied and distorted to supportHillary-- they should lose all influence and power in the actual Black Caucus.Most of the Progressive Caucus members in the House should be voted out ofoffice, except for the few who supported Bernie.
Of course, theseincompetent, politically malpracticing losers will blame the people who weretoo disgusted to vote for Hillary-- Berners, Millennials, people with theintegrity to refuse to vote for a lesserevil, lying, corrupt candidate hated by more than any Democratic candidate inmodern history.
The real blame for the#DemDisaster should be laid on the DNC and the rabid Hillary supporters whowere in total denial that a profoundly flawed, lying, corrupt, hated candidatecould somehow win.
Hillbots will blameBerners who voted 3rd party for her loss No! Your Awful judgment gave Trump theWhite House"""This was an election where people voted AGAINST a candidate.Hillary was more hated than Trump The DNC should have known. No. I'm sure theyknew and went ahead anyway. They read the pulse of America so badly that theyarrogantly, Top Down inflicted Hillary on the Democratic party.
Joe Scarborough says,"this morning that this is not a morning for the Republican establishment tocelebrate. This is a morning that the Republican establishment has been smashedinto a million pieces." If that's true then the Democratic establishment shouldbe smashed into a billion pieces.
Bottom line--
DNC and media Demleadership should be banned and purged, starting from the bottom up, or itwon't happen. Begin by running out the local committee people who did all theycould to prevent fair, open elections in the primaries. Don't buy theirinevitable excuses, that it was the Russian hackers faults or the fault of theless than one percent of people who voted for Jill Stein. This was an electionlost by the DNC.
2- MSNBC & CNN handedthe election to Trump by steamrolling over Sanders, setting up Clinton for herinevitable fall. Start watching the alternative TV shows and readingnews websites which never bought the DNC propaganda.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass