Exploiting Prophets and Painful Wounds

(M)an: Dude! The Lion of the Senate: When Ted Kennedy Rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress is a brilliant primer for anyone considering a career in United States government. It’s fast paced and packed with evidence that Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton were on the same neocon side of the political spectrum following the 1994 midterm elections. Nick Littlefield and his coauthor David Nexon bring to life the legislative process with such honesty that Doris Kearns Goodwin’s introduction is well-deserved and absolutely true, “The stories of how Kennedy built working alliances with his colleagues are comical, instructive, and fascinating.”

(D)ude: Man! Finally, somebody’s speaking the hard truth! Bill Clinton initiated the Damn-o-crats and Damn-o-cracy in America alongside the Republican Party neocons beginning with the dismantling of the Democrats and Democracy in America through the 1994 midterm election cycle. I think Bill Clinton is a cheater like no other! Forget the skirt-chasing, Bill Clinton is a strong proponent of income and wealth inequality. He wholeheartedly believes in oppression and capital punishment-based foreign policy globally. His friendship with Nelson Mandela was a sham behind which Bill the Barbarian veiled his supremacism and egoism. Hillary Rodham Clinton is an endowment of this barbaric savage. Our daughters do not deserve such a submissive and fearful woman as a role model nor president!       

M: Dude! I feel the anger too with Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Damn-o-crats. Nick Littlefield says this on page 40 of his spellbinding coauthored memoir, dissecting Bill Clinton’s reaction to the 1994 Midterms,

“Not surprisingly, Clinton pledged, “I will do everything in my power to reach out to the leaders and members of this new Congress.” Reaching out was one thing; I was more worried that he seemed to agree with Gingrich on the meaning of the election. He said, “Not enough people… believed we were meeting their desires for a fundamental change in the role of Government in their lives… It must be possible for us to give our people a government that is smaller, that is more effective, that reflects both our interests and our values.”

“By the time I returned to my office in the Senate for the first time since the election, I had read the clues from Gingrich and the president from the day before. The president was interpreting the election the same way as the leader of the radical right, that voters were calling for less spending, fewer taxes, less government. He was saying he wanted to reach out to the Republicans and meet them in the center. In contrast, the Republican leader was talking about bold and radical change, about “burying” the Great Society and “recasting” the government after a ten-year “battle between conservatives and liberal elites.” All I could think of was that if one side in any political struggle is hell-bent on achieving total victory and is conceding no ground to the other, and the other is nodding in agreement with its opponent’s interpretation of events and priorities and emphasizing how much it will reach out and work with that opposition, the end result will inevitably be dramatic movement in the direction of the more aggressive party.

“Passivity usually doesn’t work in politics. The party setting the agenda, bringing energy and vitality to the contest, clear in its convictions, beats the party that is confused, sullen, reactive, defensive, incoherent, and accommodating. It doesn’t work in policymaking either. In one hundred days in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt marshaled all his political capital and pushed through Congress the bulk of the New Deal agenda, while a demoralized and disorganized Republican minority watched, consigned to defeat. President Lyndon Johnson used his huge majority after the 1964 election to push through Congress the raft of far-reaching liberal social legislation that became the Great Society. Gingrich was now poised to ram through a radical conservative agenda, and the Democratic president was already conceding ground.”

D: Man! Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Damn-o-crats have been conceding ground with the Republican Party since Bill Clinton! Bill Clinton laid the foundation of the Clinton Manifesto way back in 1992! The Walton Family of Wal-Mart fame and fortune funded Bill Clinton’s campaign by providing airplane transportation to and from campaign events. By 1992, Hillary Clinton had served on the Wal-Mart Board of Directors for six years! The pay was not all that substantial, but Hillary was given $100,000 worth of stocks in the company. I wonder what became of these stocks, don’t you?    

M: Dude! The math was not always like what it is now. The Damn-o-crats comprise about 20% of the Democratic Party, and always have. However, with equivalent financial backing from the oligarchs, Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Republican Party have coalesced! The Damn-o-crats feel empowered by the corrupt campaign finance system in the United States and support from the oligarchs. Eighty percent of the Democrats have been personally bullied by the Damn-o-crats and, as a result, have backed off from the political circuit or retired. Look at Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer of California! Likewise, Republicans like Olympia Snowe too have chosen to back away and retire from politics as a result of the corruption from the Tea Party Republicans.  

D: Man! Speaking of the Damn-o-crats and their intimidation tactics, former DNC Chairman and Governor of Vermont Howard Dean chided Democrat Nina Turner brutally on MSNBC on March 29, 2016! On live television, Howard Dean castigated Nina Turner about her winning her position of leadership as a Democratic Ohio State Senator through his networks of support. Chiding Nina Turner about his power with an untamable god complex, Howard Dean basically confessed to having orchestrated with his fellow Damn-o-crats, Nina Turner’s losing the position of Ohio Secretary of State to Republican Jon Husted in 2014 even after Bill Clinton expressed his support for her on September 18, 2014.     

M: Dude! Bill Clinton and Howard Dean are continuing their march towards killing Democracy in America for their own personal greed, now orchestrating Hillary Rodham Clinton’s loss to perhaps the most pathetic Republican presidential contenders ever in the history of the United States. I guess pathetic Republican presidential contenders are inevitable because of the egoism of the oligarchs since the SCOTUS’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. Two oligarchs in particular, the trillionaire George Walker Bush and the billionaire Bill Clinton, have borrowed heavily from autocracies abroad, like the BJP in India and their genocidal maniac leader Narendra Modi. Or the Pakistan People’s Party in Pakistan and their uxoricidal maniac leader Asif Zardari.

D: Man! Did you see Alex Seitz-Wald on MSNBC this morning with Andrea Mitchell?

M: Dude! Was it something to do with explaining the cons of a closed primary likely to be held in New York State despite protests from voters for the Department of Justice and the Federal Election Commission and the Supreme Court of the United States to review the arrangement and allow for an open primary instead to accommodate for the rising interest in this presidential election?

D: Man! Yeah! This is what Alex Seitz-Wald said to Andrea Mitchell this morning,

"I’ve just got off the phone with a volunteer whose been working to register voters for the Sanders campaign. And she told me that her inbox gets flooded every day with people who want to vote for Bernie Sanders but realized only too late that they’re not going to be able to. The registration deadline closed on March 25^th. The deadline if you’re registered as an Independent and you want to switch to a Democrat—that closed way back on October 9^th [2015]. Independents have been critical to Bernie Sanders—he broke even with Clinton last night with Democrats, but he won thanks in large part to his success among Independents. [He’s] not going to be able to have them [Independents] in that closed primary in New York."

M: Dude! The NY Daily News should be ashamed! And shamed by the American Electorate! For exploiting the Sandy Hook tragedy with a title this morning on its front pages attempting to destroy Bernie Sanders in the New York primary that is scheduled for Tuesday, April 19, 2016,

"Bernie’s Sandy Hook shame: Callously defends gunmakers against Newtown kin lawsuit; in sitdown with the Daily News, Bernie Sanders doubled down on his belief gun manufacturers should not be held liable for shootings."

D: Man! This is where the Clinton campaign is spending its money! And it is disgusting! They exploit prophets like John Lewis and now are exploiting such painful wounds of countless lives massacred through gross generalizations about Bernie Sanders’ positions on gun control! Hillary

Rodham Clinton’s game plan is sacrilegious, just like how Ted Cruz chose to quote JFK on the night he came on top in the Republican Primary in Wisconsin, having made fun of JFK earlier at a campaign stop in Iowa on January 7, 2016 by impersonating JFK and then attributing an RFK quote to the 35^th President of the United States. Ted Cruz is as sacrilegious as Donald Trump and John Kasich! The three imbecilic talking points for ISIS recruiters!  

M: Dude! Feel the Bern! Ora pro nobis!

Feel the Bern Wisconsin & Vote, Vote, Vote!!

Man! Dude! #385

(D)ude: Man! I’ve got a spell of the same ESP, or extrasensory perception, as Former DNC Chair Howard Dean. Hillary Clinton’s going to win Wisconsin because the Teabag Democrats and the Tea Party Republicans collaboratively lie, cheat, and steal ballots for Hillary Clinton whenever there’s an Open Primary.

(M)an: Dude! So you’re basically trying to make the point that Hillary Rodham Clinton has a sure-fire route to winning in the primaries and caucuses if they’re open? And tell me exactly how do you steal ballots?

D: Man! Look! Search for results from the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses and examine the numbers. With the exception of Vermont and Michigan, which Bernie Sanders won by +72.5 percentage points (Vermont) and +1.42 percentage points (Michigan), Hillary Rodham Clinton managed to win 9 out of the 11 “Open Primaries” we’ve had thus far.

M: Dude! In that case, why don’t you do the stats on the remaining kinds of primaries and caucuses?

D: Man! I did! There has been a grand total of 21 primaries as of Saturday, March 26, 2016 on the Democratic side. Hillary Rodham Clinton has won 16 out of the 21 primaries, or 76.19% of the primaries thus far.

M: Dude! What about overall caucuses?

D: Man! There has been a grand total of 14 caucuses as of Saturday, March 26, 2016 on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders has won 11 out of the 14 caucuses, or 78.57% of the caucuses thus far.

M: Dude! What makes you suspicious of the numbers you’ve conjured up? Obviously, Bernie Sanders has won an overwhelming majority of the caucuses over Hillary Rodham Clinton! Your design model collapses, does it not?

D: Man! I think the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee are conspiring to make Hillary Rodham Clinton the Democratic presidential nominee because she is willing to lose the general election to the Republican Party’s candidate on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. I say this because the Clinton camp is always surprised by the results from the caucuses and dismissively indifferent towards the primaries.  

M: Dude! But how are they carrying out what conspiracy again?

D: Man! The Democrats want to lose to the Republicans! This will ensure that the wheel of fate will keep turning the American people over and over and forward, but not to the fast pace of progress that the Obama Administration has essentially set by refusing to submit to that ongoing wheel of fate for anyone on this planet. American workers are close to breaking the cycle of coming up for air and then being bulldozed over again by the greed of corporate interests shackling us to the status quo’s financial ambitions. The revolution is on!    

M: Dude! The present state of affairs in the United States and the world being what they are and have been throughout the last millennium, we need to “Feel the Bern” and vote for Bernie Sanders for president! Hillary Rodham Clinton stance on capital punishment is twofold and relies on the American Electorate, the voting constituencies particularly, to remain in an individual microcosm and not engage within a global macrocosm. The only problem with this assumption by the Clinton camp is that at the mezzo-level, there’s the Internet and it is informing us collectively about all levels of societies.   

D: Man! How is Secretary Clinton’s stance on capital punishment twofold?

M: Dude! She is destructive in foreign affairs, having amassed a fortune with her billionaire philanthropist husband and the trillionaire Bushes through dismantling and privatizing Middle East oil infrastructures in Iraq. The Clintons and the GOP are one and the same! Both are ravaged by bloody greed and couldn’t care less for anything other than gains in personal financial wealth. Hillary Rodham Clinton should know that American voters are well-informed to know that this much is true, that if you believe in capital punishment at home then toppling regimes and killing oppressive leaders and declaring free elections aboard is insufficient and counterproductive if there is no rebuilding of the collapsed economies we’ve got as a result of our brash foreign policies.

D: Man! I agree that there ought not be zealousness about utilizing capital punishment in our dealings with other nations. I also think part of the struggle is that Western society is too whitewashed at the top. We need to diversify ourselves from top to bottom. However, there is more diversification at the bottom than anywhere else because that’s where poverty resides. Poverty is diverse than wealth. Can wealth ever become diverse than poverty?

M: Dude! Ora pro nobis! Feel the Bern!

Anguishing Psychological Cognitive Dissonance

Man! Dude! #384

(M)an: Dude! There must be Democratic Debates before Wisconsinites and New Yorkers cast their ballots in the Democratic Primaries on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 [date of Wisconsin Primary] and Tuesday, April 19, 2016 [date of the New York Primary].

(D)ude: Man! I’m surprised no one seems to care to notice the Wyoming Caucus on Saturday, April 9, 2016! There ought to be two debates this week and one next week, otherwise this presidential election cycle will go down in history as the most suffocating and unrepresentative of the American people ever.

M: Dude! MSNBC is totally invested in the Clinton Campaign facing Donald Trump’s fascist circus waltz with the heavily-financed corps of cretins that are the Republican National Committee and Ted Cruz and John Kasich. On the March 31, 2016 episode of Meet the Press Daily, MSNBC creatively insisted on showing Hillary Clinton address issues in the news at a scheduled event in Madison, Wisconsin. Does the Press Corps really think they can fool American voters into not demanding debates between the presidential candidates?

D: Man! Hillary Clinton looks and sounds foolish, as if she’s already secured the Democratic nomination and is the President of the United States! Doesn’t Hillary Clinton know how much of a pseudointellectual braggart absolutist she comes across when she insists on addressing the issues all by herself instead of inviting her competitor Bernie Sanders into debate?

M: Dude! Joel Benenson is Hillary Clinton’s chief campaign strategist and on the March 31, 2016 edition of The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, he comfortably smiled at the footage of Hillary Rodham Clinton countering hecklers in Madison, Wisconsin, with her quipping, “Oh, I know the Bernie people came to say that. We’re very sorry you’re leaving…” The hecklers were clearly placed by Hillary’s camp for the purposes of allowing Hillary Clinton the opportunity to lull some valuable time on the campaign trail by addressing them cutting into her mundane monologue and placing the blame on Bernie Sanders directly. If the hecklers had not been preplaced, then Joel Benenson would have lost his cool much the same way Hillary Clinton does whenever she is confronted by genuine protest.  

D: Man! Hillary Clinton is stuck in the 1990s! This is the new millennium and the tactics that worked for Bill Clinton cannot be applied any longer. As for the email scandal unfolding with Hillary Clinton, she is her husband’s wife after all and probably shared confidential information with her spouse. She really needs to disconnect from that man! Together, they are a deplorable political pair being overwhelmingly favored by the American Press Corps right now. Hillary Clinton exploits abusively. Her husband came on television with his saxophone and then paraded about with African-American community leaders, only to pass welfare reform and a crime bill that couldn’t even facilitate after-hours sports for high-risk teenagers as pledged.

M: Dude! Hillary Clinton does exploit abusively, as she did grieving mothers at the community forum addressing gun violence prevention on March 29, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There was an element of grotesque sarcasm emanating from Hillary Rodham Clinton when she kept a smile and even allowed some laughter into her affect when Annette Nance-Holt criticized the Sanders Campaign for not reaching out to parents like herself, hence her conclusion that Bernie Sanders wasn’t working for her vote. However, Jane Sanders was asked for a reply by Kate Snow later that day on MSNBC and her response was one of love and reaching out to the aggrieved mother by restating that her husband Bernie Sanders did not wish to engage such raw emotional turmoil into a campaign event. The pain in Jane’s eyes for Annette Nance-Holt’s tremendous loss was so palpable and severe that I couldn’t help but cry for Annette Nance-Holt’s murdered son. There were many parents in Hillary Clinton’s audience that day when Nance-Holt spoke, mothers like Geneva Reed-Veal, mother of the late Sandra Bland, who insisted, “When you get backlash from people who are saying that you are going around and parading, you’re being pimped by the secretary. Ain’t nobody pimping me! None of us are being exploited.” That statement of anguishing psychological cognitive dissonance by Reed-Veal made me weep too, as well as Freda Bogan’s expressed turmoil about losing her son and then being told that his murderer would not serve the fifteen-year sentence because of prison overcrowding.     

D: Man! Thursday, March 31, 2016 was a historic milestone in presidential campaigning, with over 18,500 Bernie Sanders supporters showing up for a rally by their candidate in South Bronx’s St. Mary’s Park. However, MSNBC chose not to broadcast it live on the air as it does Hillary Clinton’s campaign forums. It is such a Shakespearean tragedy, very King Lear-like, how the American Press Corps is shutting out the Sanders campaign events, choosing not to televise the diversity and the range in support that Bernie Sanders has attracted thus far across the United States of America.  

M: Dude! King Lear? How so?

D: Man! Yeah! The American Electorate is King Lear and Bill and Hillary Clinton are King Lear’s deceptive daughters Goneril and Regan. As in the play by William Shakespeare, King Lear’s third and youngest daughter Cordelia chooses not to speak up in embroidered declarations about her love for her father and this irritates King Lear so much that he disowns Cordelia and splits his Kingdom between Goneril and Regan. This would have made marriage difficult for Cordelia, but the King of France responds positively to her honesty and marries her despite the absence of dowry.

M: Dude! The American Electorate is King Lear and, let me guess, Cordelia is Bernie Sanders?

D: Man! Yeah! King Lear is left ridiculed and banished out of his home by his selfish and shallow daughters Goneril and Regan. Likewise, the American Electorate better open its eyes to the deceptive campaign tricks of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s and actually respond with demands that Hillary Clinton actually carry out her proposals and pledges if elected. However, there remains a route to hope for the American Electorate to not perish under the steadfast grip of the haranguing hypocrite couple. That route is Bernie Sanders! Feel the Bern, America!

M: Dude! The Earl of Kent is banished from the Kingdom when he comes to the defense of Cordelia after King Lear disowns her. The American Press Corps is celebrated as the Earl of Kent in media matters in the new millennium, but it is too going to have to disguise itself as a Caius as the Earl of Kent does in order to continue communicating with King Lear.

D: Man! The American Press Corps is already preparing for the worst by parading around with lamentations about what happened to the United States for us to reach the point we’re at right now with Hillary Clinton not debating Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump insisting on nuclear holocaust in the Middle East while isolating the United States by closing borders.

M: Dude! Doesn’t Cordelia leave the kingdom with her husband, the King of France, and a statement about how she knows the premeditated mischievous of Goneril and Regan? “I know what you are”? Is it?

D: Man! “I know you what you are”! I’ve got the script right here!

KING OF FRANCE

Bid farewell to your sisters.

CORDELIA

The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes

Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are;

And like a sister am most loath to call

Your faults as they are named. Use well our father:

To your professed bosoms I commit him

But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,

I would prefer him to a better place.

So, farewell to you both.

REGAN

Prescribe not us our duties.

GONERIL

Let your study

Be to content your lord, who hath received you

At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,

And well are worth the want that you have wanted.

CORDELIA

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides:

Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

Well may you prosper!

KING OF FRANCE

Come, my fair Cordelia.

Exeunt KING OF FRANCE and CORDELIA

M: Dude! “Prescribe not us our duties”! Sounds like the rebukes that Hillary and Bill Clinton give their protestors!

D: Man! If the Clintons cannot handle protests at home, what will they have in store for US and the world abroad? The “no fly zone” policy Hillary Rodham Clinton has in mind over Syria is just another way of disengaging with our allies there and the coalitions being built. Who cares if Assad lives or dies in Russia? George Walker Bush lives and was the first American autocrat of the new millennium! Waterboarding, anyone? George Walker is that despot!