Saving Bernie Busters from Themselves and the World from Clintonian Plutocracy

There will be denial for days and maybe weeks to come, but in the end Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. Could things have been different with all open primaries, more polling  places and less voter suppression? Certainly!

Sadly, none of that matters now. Yes, we need to reform the process of future nominations but right now we need to deal with the reality that Hillary  Clinton will be our next president.

Yes, you heard that right, my Bernie or Bust friends. Every time you make claims to the contrary, hundreds of Sanders supporters decide to keep Trump out by voting Clinton in.

It is time to stop the futile call to defeat Hillary Clinton as punishment for all the dirty political chicanery she has used to deny Sanders the nomination.

Sadly, painfully, but undeniably, we are stuck with her. She is a war-mongering, corporate-pandering puppet for the status quo, but she will be our next president.

The strategy of trying to scare Democrats into voting for Sanders for fear of her not being able to defeat Donald Trump has clearly failed and further use of it is going to backfire in a landslide victory over the weakest camdidate the GOP has ever produced.


What Bernie Busters need to focus on now is persuading as many Sanders supporters as possible to send her and the Democratic party a clear message: No more Libyas and no more Wall Street dominance over the treasury and treasures of our country.

The only way to make this happen is to threaten her with 8 million progressive votes for Jill Stein this year and the prospect of 20 million four years from now. She will not listen to reason or passion or to voters who stupidly write in votes for a candidate who supports her and does not want to be a write-in candidate.

She will, however listen to 10 million progressives breathing down her neck and the way to make that happen us to get Jill Stein above 5% this November.

The way to get the Green Party over the threshold for federal matching funds in the next presidential election is to persuade enough Sanders supporters that they can vote their consciences twice without spoiling the election and making Trump the president.

Let me be clear... this is not about promoting the Green Party; this about keeping the peaceful green economy at the forefront  of our national agenda. This is about agreeing with Bernie Sanders' assessment that nothing  short of a political revolution will bring about the democratic change that we need to establish justice and insure domestic tranquility.

Clinton must be radically transformed or at least sufficiently restrained if we are to have a chance of not being the permanent  victims of global corporate totalitarianism. 5 million uncounted votes for an undeclared and uncertified write-in candidate will only embolden the puppeteers who pull her strings.

Fortunately, all of the fuss about the danger of not voting for the lesser evil is made a moot point not only by the gift of Donald Drumpf but because the Libertarian Party,  in nominating two very popular former governors, will give both  establishment voters and  pissed off Paulians an option which will more than offset Green defections.  And if Gary Johnson and William Weld are not status quo enough, clandestine Clintonites or Romney write- ins will do the trick of denying Trump 10 million votes.

In short, the approach should be: let's  keep the pressure on by dismissing the barely remote possibility of a Trump White House and liberating Sanderistas from sheep dogging fearmongers.

Let's  get it done now!

No Excuse for Not Voting Your Conscience Twice

The candidacy of Bernie Sanders has re-ignited the truly progressive wing of the Democratic Party and is bringing people into the party who otherwise would feel no compelling reason to vote in primaries and caucuses. This is a good thing and we hope that his campaign leads to his nomination and election.

Such hope will continue to be cultivated by official and unofficial supporters of Sanders. We here at GEG want to maintain a positive approach in our support of his campaign. We do not, however, believe that our support has to be uncritical. Preparing a plan B is not a negation of plan A, but a refusal to even consider an alternative is political blindness. The Democratic Party is more than happy, as they have proven several times, to wrap their corporatist agenda in a progressive package if it will keep the base loyal.

Already the signs of sheepdogging have begun. Obama's former campaign manager, David Axelrod has put out the welcome mat (be still my heart) with his claim that Bernie Sanders has already won by moving Hillary leftward. Hillary's campaign will continue to patronize Sanders supporters and eventually Sanders will keep his pledge by endorsing Clinton and urging his followers to support her in the general election.

Part and parcel of this schmoozing tactic is the fear factor of lesser evilism. Nader Redux will be the hue and cry warning to those who would spoil the general election by going Green, Socialist or independent. If we grant this dubious appeal a degree of merit, we also must alert Sanders's supporters to the fact that we are not the only disenchanted voters in the two party system. Just as many, if not more Republican primary voters will be shafted by their party when Rand Paul's campaign is thwarted.

The Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party will be competing to bring Paulites on board in the general election. And in the event that a Cruz, Huckabee, Carson, or Santorum is not on the GOP ticket, the CP nominee will be siphoning cultural conservatives as well.

2016 is on all sides an ideal year to vote one's conscience in both the primaries and the general election.

Even if you buy the anti-spoiler argument, it only applies in swing states. Outside of those six or seven, the rest of the nation is voting lopsided for one of the two corporate parties. What we need is a strong Sanders showing followed by a conscientious voting public in November.

The stronger the showing of Sanders (and Rand Paul for the other side), the better third parties will be situated to punish the business as usual imperial oligarchs. And besides, what harm will it do Jill Stein for the green-at-heart to vote for Sanders before they vote for her?

Unfortunately, the deck and the money are stacked way high against any kind of outsider pulling off a nomination or an election. Corporatists control the process and their grip is not going to be loosened until we diminish their legitimacy at the polls. It begins with supporting Sanders but if it ends there, we basically get a majority president who will feel zero obligation to act on behalf of the people they bamboozled into thinking she cares for those who are not footing her bill.

Push both tickets toward or below 40% in the popular vote and we stand a chance of making things happen for real on the policy front. Get herded in again and get the same results we have been getting all along.

No excuses this time. Vote and stick with your conscience!

Go Green in the General Election.