Well, we all knew it would end like this, just as it was planned by the Clintons and the Democrat establishment. An inglorious ending to an unfair race. With the going getting too tough, the powers-that-be announce Clinton as the winner before six states have had a chance to vote, thereby taking the air out of the contest, and ensuring that many prospective Sanders voters in those six states would sigh and just stay home. The establishment and the corporate-owned media got what they wanted, right from the beginning to the end, with Debbie Wasserman Schultz pulling every dirty string she could to give the crown to Hillary. No doubt Debbie will get her reward with an appointment of some kind.
Truth is, even with all the energy of his campaign and millions of people behind him, Bernie Sanders or anyone else didn't stand a chance right from the starting gate. He and "We, the people" gave them a run they didn't expect, but there was no way the Clintons and their corporate and Wall St. backers were going to let their bought-and-paid for candidate lose to an honest politician who was challenging Wall Street and corporate power. That's Clintonian politics for you. While building up millions/billions in wealth for their personal gain, the Clintons have planned for it to be "her turn" for years -- and now they have the plum they fought for so zealously (and crookedly). The result: We, the people will be screwed once more -- with greater boons for Wall Street (her payback for all the money she got for "speeches"), more nukes and war...again and again.
And we'll have to endure the Clintons with all their baggage in the White House all over again. Ugh! Bill's ne'er-do-well brother Roger was arrested in California last night on a DUI, but that went unreported by most of the media. He was quietly bailed out of jail and secreted away somewhere. Of course. When Roger was imprisoned on drug charges, Bill issued him a pardon. Here's a part of the story. You can find lots more online. A controversial issue surrounds Bill Clinton's pardoning of his brother — on January 20, 2001 — the very day he left office. Roger's crime? In the mid-1980s, he was arrested after selling cocaine to an undercover police officer. But that's not all. Dan Lasater, close friend of Bill, served time with Roger for cocaine-related crimes. But according to testimony, to say they were "selling" cocaine would be an extreme understatement.
"Dan Lasater, who was best friend of Bill Clinton, who went to jail with Roger Clinton for cocaine — and by the way, let me explain something," Larry Nichols, former Director of Marketing for the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, explained in a documentary, pointing to court documents, "they didn't sell cocaine. No. They were giving it away. Huge piles of cocaine" in Lasater's "office — huge piles of it at the parties. Ashtray upon ashtray full at the parties — and they would give it to young girls. That's sick. I mean, they were giving a highly addictive drug to young girls."
And, according to Doc DeLaughter, former Arkansas police investigator who headed the Dan Lasater case — and who witnessed testimony in court — the girls weren't legal-age teens; they were 13 and 14 year olds who were also used sexually by Roger and his pals. Seems Bill and Roger have much in common.
So that tells you what we are in for with the Clintons--again. As the article below so perfectly states: This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization — incredibly — conceals. The decisive edifice of superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it's only fitting that its nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward, and undemocratic sputter.
Last night, the Associated Press — on a day when nobody voted — surprised everyone by abruptly declaring the Democratic Party primary over and Hillary Clinton the victor. The decree, issued the night before the California primary in which polls show Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a very close race, was based on the media organization's survey of "superdelegates": the Democratic Party's 720 insiders, corporate donors, and officials whose votes for the presidential nominee count the same as the actually elected delegates. AP claims that superdelegates who had not previously announced their intentions privately told AP reporters that they intend to vote for Clinton, bringing her over the threshold. AP is concealing the identity of the decisive superdelegates who said this.
Although the Sanders campaign rejected the validity of AP's declaration — on the ground that the superdelegates do not vote until the convention and he intends to try to persuade them to vote for him — most major media outlets followed the projection and declared Clinton the winner.
This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization — incredibly — conceals. The decisive edifice of super delegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it's only fitting that its nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward, and undemocratic sputter.
None of this is to deny that Hillary Clinton — as was always the case from the start — is highly likely to be the legitimately chosen winner of this process. It's true that the party's governing rules are deliberately undemocratic; unfair and even corrupt decisions were repeatedly made by party officials to benefit Clinton; and the ostensibly neutral Democratic National Committee (led by the incomparably heinous Debbie Wasserman Schultz) constantly put not just its thumb but its entire body on the scale to ensure she won. But it's also true that under the long-standing rules of the party, more people who voted preferred Clinton as their nominee over Sanders. Independent of super delegates, she just got more votes. There's no denying that.
And just as was true in 2008 with Obama's nomination, it should be noted that standing alone — i.e., without regard to the merits of the candidate — Clinton's nomination is an important and positive milestone. Americans, being Americans, will almost certainly overstate its world significance and wallow in excessive self-congratulations: Many countries on the planet have elected women as their leaders, including many whose close family member had not previously served as president. Nonetheless, the U.S. presidency still occupies an extremely influential political and cultural position in the world. Particularly for a country with such an oppressive history on race and gender, the election of the first African-American president and nomination of the first female presidential candidate of a major party is significant in shaping how people all over the world, especially children, view their own and other people's potential and possibilities. But that's all the more reason to lament this dreary conclusion.
That the Democratic Party nominating process is declared to be over in such an uninspiring, secretive, and elite-driven manner is perfectly symbolic of what the party, and its likely nominee, actually is. The one positive aspect, though significant, is symbolic, while the actual substance — rallying behind a Wall Street-funded, status quo-perpetuating, multimillionaire militarist — is grim in the extreme. The Democratic Party got exactly the ending it deserved.
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