It’s not us, it’s her - And you can't shame us for not supporting Hillary, not in the primaries

A progressives rant

It’s not sexism… consider for a moment that we hate her because of who she is, what she has done and it has nothing to do with her gender, not even anything to do with the republican delusion syndrome.

I’m going to say it right here and now I hate the Clintons. Both her and Bill and I'm never going to apologize for it. I hate what they did to the democratic party handing the party of the people over to the same corporate masters as the republican party and taking away real choice in the general election. I hate that they dismissed and belittled progressives rendering our causes futile or simply off the table. I hate them for welfare reform and a draconian crime bill that victimized the poor, destroyed entire neighborhoods and disproportionately crushed communities of color. I hate them for trade deals that destroyed the middle class, killed American jobs and sent wages on a race to the bottom. I hate them for de-regulating the media and then ducking behind them for cover on their lies and smears of their political enemies. I hate them for passing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and DOMA and pretending later that they were doing it to save the gay community from something worse. I hate them for saying they want America to take the lead in fighting global warming then taking huge donations from the oil and coal industries, selling fracking to the world, supporting offshore drilling, supporting the extraction and storage of natural gas and opposing a carbon tax… basically the exact opposite of what someone who cares about stopping or slowing global warming would do. I hate them for being the dirtiest campaigners in modern history. I hate her specifically because her foreign policy of war, regime change and arming the enemy of our enemy has been almost as destructive as Dick Cheney arguably one of the most destructive leaders in our nation’s history.  Yes I hate them and my hatred for them grows with every lie, with every smear and with every media hit piece or every surrogate that goes out spreading lies and false narrative on their behalf. Yes I hate them for who they are and what they have done, I don’t hate them because the republicans told me to hate them. I don’t hate her because she is a woman. I hate them because they have done more damage to progressives and progressive ideas while pretending to be progressive than any republican ever could have. I hate them for manipulating other democrats into being their apologists and attacking anyone who didn’t agree with them or called them on their record or questionable integrity.

In ‘92 they promised us that they were a 2 for 1, she then became the only first lady to set up an office in the west wing, but how dare anybody hold her accountable for the damage of their administration. Sure she wants the credit for the short term prosperity that came with the dot com bubble, but doesn’t want any of the blame for the long term consequences of their wall street deals, free trade agreements, mass incarceration or any of the things I listed above. In 92 they said that they were representing the centrist wing of the party and were new democrats leading the party into a new era, a third way with centrist democrats who could beat republicans in both the money game and electoral game… and they they did exactly that, dragging the party to the center, crushed the left and led to a corporatist takeover of the party, a party that now answered to corporate interests but how dare anybody who remembers the left bring that up.

Well I admit that I hate them… but somehow as a defense Hillary says if we hate her, surely we must hate Obama for taking money from wall street, or Kerry or insert name of virtually any corporatist third way Democrat.  But wait I don’t hate Obama. 8 years ago I was doing what her supporters are attacking me for now by defending Obama against her lies, smears and attacks. I defended Obama when she sent out her surrogates to smear him, tell us that he can’t get anything done, has no experience and has no idea about foreign policy because he disagreed with her hawkish ways. Thanks to their corporate takeover of the democratic party I’ve been forced to support the lesser of two evils every election at nearly every level of government and yes I hate that and blame them. I hate that us progressives have been mocked and dismissed every election cycle while being told that this endless string of middle right corporate democrats are progressive… but sadly I remember what progressives fight for and against. I remember what it was like when democrats put the people first and answered to the people. I know it makes me angrier but I watched all of this happen in real time and yes I was paying attention. I can’t pretend to not know what democrats used to get for us and can’t pretend to not notice that our party has been hijacked.

So here we are in the primaries in a year when millennials and Independents along with progressives and yes the fringe racist right are all rising up and demanding representation. We are mocked by the media, ignored by the media and scolded by the establishment desperate to hold onto the power they stole from us. We are scolded for ignoring their dirty games, conventional wisdom and establishment bullying. I’ve been involved in progressive politics for 25 years and I know this is the primaries. I know what that means,  this is when we get to decide the direction of our party. This is when we get to choose someone who represents real positive change and not the least offensive of the corrupt two party system. This is when we get to remember we have a democracy and that our leaders probably could and should represent the interests of the people.

This is when we can send the Clintons into retirement and let both them and their corrupt corporatist leaders know that we are done with oligarchy (a small group of people having control of a government) and plutocracy (government by the wealthy elite and ruling class), we are ready to get our democracy back. This is when we refuse to take no for an answer, when the people of Michigan can be told she is 20 points up 2 days before the vote and that it’s over, but they decide to ignore the media noise, ignore the party insiders and send Bernie to one of the biggest primary upsets in political history. This is when we can embrace real change. This is when we can ignore the so called experts that say because she crushed it in southern red states that there is no path to victory for another democrat even though most states including virtually every large state has still not voted. I don't ever want to be told I have to vote for the lesser of two evils (but I will if we blow it, but let's not go there yet)

This is when we save democracy, save our planet and remind democrats of our progressive past. This is when we defeat  Hillary Clinton and not because she is a woman, because she is a wolf in sheep’s clothing who has done enough damage and we are done with both the Bush’s and the Clinton’s. This when we start a political revolution that wins back our party, wins back our government, wins back American jobs and restores the American dream. This is when we embrace a truly inspirational leader like Bernie Sanders and we turn the page on a 4 decade attack on the American people by the people we called our leaders. This is when we remind ourselves and the younger generations what it’s like to be truly great again. Once in a lifetime a truly transformational leader comes along speaking the truth, inspiring the masses and changes the world. Let's not blow it. Vote for real change, vote for honesty and integrity, vote for vision and compassion. Vote for Bernie Sanders and don't let your party, your parents party or the media talk you out of it, or convince you it can't happen. Make it happen. #FeelTheBern


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