My reaction to these DNC e-mails is that the DNC worked to undermine the Bernie Sanders campaign because they always wanted—and was willing to manipulate the outcome for—Hillary Clinton. They were impartial in so far as it meant they felt that Hillary Clinton wouldn’t get much of a challenge. A lot of people have been named. And they’re no surprise. And this is just the committee. The ratfucking also went on with officeholders.
I will not vote, here in 2016, for the Democratic Party’s ticket in November. I will not permit any the twisted head-game tactics used by Democratic shills—whether they work in the party or whether they come from Democratic voters—to have any impact on me.
The people who think a President Donald Trump would take away same-sex marriage have not realized that part of the reason why we have it is because of who also wanted the nation to have it: corporations. Yes, corporations wanted same-sex marriage in the United States because, in part, the LGBT community has been recognized as a market opportunity more than worthy of tapping into and selling. So, same-sex marriage is here to stay. Discrimination is still here. But, if the Democratic Party actually cared—and if Donald Trump is so evil that they truly think he would burn this country to the ground—they would not have fucked with party unity because they need their full force to defeat Donald Trump.
I have lots more thoughts regarding the last several months of Democratic Party politics. The most powerful influences want a Wall Street party—look at the party sabotaging (the endorsements by Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and fraudulent progressives like Al Franken) used against Alan Grayson, for ex-Republican Patrick Murphy, for the Florida U.S. Senate primary—and the real progressives in the party, the ones supportive of Bernie Sanders, are really just the party using progressives for their votes. (The Democrats mathematically have to carry—and perform highly—with self-identified Liberals, because they are the base, just as the Republicans have to with self-identified Conservatives.) The Democrats, with their neoliberal economic national and global policies, are now looking at people who are the have-nots as merely electorally appealing voting demographics. (Blacks. Hispanics, as we can see from the DNC leaks. And, frankly, add Jewish and Asian-American people.) In the primaries, white males were not appealing because they voted for Bernie Sanders. Minorities were looked as the influential power determining the nomination. So, their influence was respected by Hillary Clinton not choosing a minority for her vice-presidential running mate but the white male Tim Kaine.
If we look at the two major political parties not just as parties but businesses who do politics…the Republicans are in a period in which they are a minority with winning the presidency. But, that’s okay. They win as the majority with the U.S. House—and the U.S. Senate is, depending on a given election cycle, an overall tossup. The Republicans win the back the presidency when they reinvent their party and nominate an eventual winner who truly plays like a national candidate—like with the two elections of Dwight Eisenhower during the 1950s. Yet, it doesn’t seem that bad for these Republicans. Based on how this Democratic Party operates, and what has been reaped with the Obama presidency, the Democratic Party is now a good and comfy home for the breeds of Republican names like Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, Bob Dole, and George Bush Sr. Perhaps even Ronald Reagan, in some way, could be added. It’s no wonder President Obama was always wanting “bipartisanship.” (Cornel West has the accurate read on him.) The Democrats are good on the surface—the social policies—but they are, in areas of economics and national security and the military policies, quite like the Republican Party. (And, well, I do not intend to vote for that.)
These DNC leaks make it much easier now for me to break the habit of routinely focusing my voting on the two-party duopoly—which is nowadays basically just choosing a brand—and actually vote for an alternative which closely reflects my political views. I will be voting for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. And, with this year’s revolting two-party matchup, I hope there is mass movement of support for both Libertarian Gary Johnson and for Jill Stein. Election 2016 is in sore need of this.