The DNC Emails

The drama casters, the pants wetters, and the delusional right wingers have it all wrong. The leaked DNC emails did not reveal anything the supporters of Bernie Sanders did not already know! Believe me, the Bernie delegates at the convention were looking forward to booing Debbie Wasserman Schultz long before the contents of the emails became public. In fact the disclosure of the DNC bias against Bernie simply made the Hillary people acknowledge that the bias existed, and in doing so it gave them the leverage they needed to convince Wasserman Schultz to stay away from the convention! The self deluding reactionaries are welcome to their wet dreams about an unbridgeable divide in the Democratic Party, but that is not the reality of this election. The polls show that 90% of the people supporting Bernie Sanders will vote for Hillary Clinton, and that is the reality.

There is, however, a strong caveat for Hillary Clinton. As Sarah Silverman said the “Bernie or Bust” people are being ridiculous, but the fears they express are not unfounded. It is far too likely that Hillary Clinton will use some minor cosmetic change of the TPP agreement as an excuse to support it! There is also a likelihood that her loyalty to the financial interests that have been supporting her for decades will prevent her from fighting for the reforms set forth in the party platform. If Hillary Clinton goes back on her word and supports bad trade agreements such as TPP or she does not fight to implement the reforms set forth in the party platform the first female President of this country will also become the most divisive and unpopular President since LBJ! The political revolution is for real folks! The Berners will vote to vanquish the greater of two evils, but they will not passively settle for the lesser of two evils. They will fight for a congress that will advance their agenda even in the face of Hillary Clinton's objections if she is foolish enough to object.

From my experiences on Daily Kos I can tell you that Hillary's supporters (regardless of gender) now have their panties in a bunch over what I just wrote. My advice to them is to get real! The fact that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are so popular and Donald Trump is politically viable should tell Hillary and her supporters that the angry people in this county are rapidly becoming the majority. Being a moderate is not an option today. Moderation in the face of fanatical demagoguery is far too passive. The middle ground today is where our cities have been destroyed by bad trade agreements and trickle down economics. At the risk of being overly dramatic I should say that the middle ground has become the darkened earth where the dreams of the working class have been crushed under the jack boots of the oligarchy's thugs. A resurgent left comprised of old liberals and eager millennials has now emerged to defend the hopes and aspirations of people who still believe in the promise of this great country. What the left wants and this country desperately needs is another Franklin Roosevelt!

Hillary Clinton has the skill and the knowledge to be the leader we need. The question is whether she has the wisdom and the will to be that leader. We will vote for her warily but hopefully!