Since before this election campaign officially began, those of us who support Bernie Sanders have been told to sit down, shut up, and get on board with Hillary because that's who the nominee is going to be whether we like it or not. We started hearing this before Iowa had its caucus, before a single primary vote was cast. Dianne Feinstein laughing at Sanders' supporters in Nevada and then flipping them off as she left the stage is just one example of the way the party powers have tried to trivialize anybody but their chosen candidate.
We Sanders supporters had legitimate concerns about a Clinton candidacy. She is not well-liked, even by many Democrats. Republicans loathe her. Hillary is a war-hawk who supported the failed invasion of Iraq. She supported trade deals like NAFTA that killed the Middle Class dream for millions of Americans. She is a friend of Wall Street who does not support prosecuting the banksters who collapsed our economy back in 2008. She was one of the major backers of the bankruptcy "reform" act that made it harder for working Americans to get debt relief, but made it way easier for corporations and people like Donald Trump to discharge their debts and obligations, while screwing over the people that depended on them to survive. Now she is pushing the Trans Pacific Partnership, which will likely make things even worse in this country. She has rejected a $15.00 minimum wage. She has said universal health care will never happen. She is a friend of the private prison industry. For the LGBT community, she did not support marriage equality until it became politically popular to do so. She supported the horrible Don't Ask, Don't Tell law which discriminated against gay service members. She has opposed protections for gays and lesbians in the workplace until just recently.
Now it has been revealed that the DNC did everything it could to marginalize the Sanders campaign and its supporters. Emails have come to light that show the party questioned Sanders Jewish faith, even asserting that he just might be an atheist. Democrats were outraged when Republicans called the President a "secret Muslim" and questioned his Christian faith. How is this any different?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign yesterday when this story broke. within just a few hours, she was offered a high-powered position with, wait for it, the Clinton campaign. Here we have a woman forced to resign her position after proof of her corruption was revealed. And now, the candidate she was propping up offers her a job with the campaign?
I thought the idea of the nomination procedure was to nominate the best candidate, the one who has the best chance of beating the challenger on the other side. It is not supposed to be about propping up the candidate the power brokers decided on a few years ago, regardless of the will of the voters.
It's going to be an interesting convention and I fear not in a good way.
