Democratic Fisticuffs

The Democrats have a better strategy to fight among themselves rather than collaborating for a sure-fire way to beat Donald Trump. The majority of the articles heading into the weekend feature a photo of the front runner Bernie Sanders partnered with articles structured to cover his campaign in shit. The skeptics are in full force to stomp Bernie into the mud with any slice of opportunity they can get. However, Super Tuesday results show a clash of the titans.

Joe Biden is the Golden Child of the Democrat Party, with the whole party behind him ready to take over the White House. He is the Democrat’s Democrat. Against all the odds, Biden has managed to continue to stand tall against political and personal persecution. He had faith in his southern firewall to bring him back from the abyss showed in the early contest, and the polls showed Biden had a key factor on his side–the black voters.

Biden managed to transform into a front runner thanks to his firewall in the south with a landslide victory in South Carolina and a sweep in the rest of the southern states on Super Tuesday. The cast-off candidates–Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Bloomberg, and now Harris–have placed their support behind the former vice president. It pays off to have the tag of “former vice president to Barack Obama” surging your name through the polls. The incognito hand of Obama has herded supporters to the polls thanks to the lens of Obama delusion.  If Biden continues the upward movement, he would be considered the knight in shining armor to defeat the Trump dragon. The success of Sanders still has the Democratic party running like chickens with their heads cut off.

It would be a foolish idea for an act of self-sabotage by the Democrats just to ensure their gains in the election seat. The Democratic insiders know the biggest obstacle to cancel out Sanders is his fiery supporters. The majority of young voters still support Bernie. They turn out in crowds at his rallies and form the core of his grassroots efforts to win the Democratic presidential nomination.  Mainstream Democrats’ strategy is to nominate a “middle ground nominee”(most likely Biden) and then gather all the Sanders supporters to vote for him.

The chances of that working are slim to none. Many of Sanders supporters would send a middle finger to the nominee so the group to bait in next would be the fed-up Republicans and independents. It is a challenging task to accomplish due to Sander’s relationship among self-identified independents.

Imagine the media filled with clips and videos of the nominee walking across the Democratic National Convention stage receiving no love from the percentage masses or Congress members trying to figure out who screwed the pooch.

The portion of young Democrats would turn their backs on the Democratic Party. Sanders has the power of the younger voters who are not attached to the Democrats or even politics at all. The resentment still lingers from 2016 about fairness in the nomination process. If Sanders is not the nominee there is no chance his supporters will support anyone. The question is will the Democratic party rally together just in time, or will they be caught with their pants down and fall on their faces?

I reckon we shall see what happens when the time comes.

Democratic Debauchery Stewing in Las Vegas

Forgive me for my previous transgressions. I had the opportunity to cover the second half of the debauchery guised as the Republican Debate, but I was too busy under the influence in the godforsaken, sinful city of Las Vegas. If a piece of my memory serves me right, I won money, spent it on more rounds of Wild Turkey, taxis, and more copious amounts of Wild Turkey. I digress. The story of my degenerative, impulsive behavior will be another time.

The Democratic Debate was upon not too long ago. Where was it held? In the same city that tortured my cynical grey matter—Las Vegas. Previously, I had an article prepared with the gaffes of all five of those political swine. What happened to my precious document? The damned electricity died just before I saved it! It was like they knew I was going to annihilate their reputations! Majority of the debate was massacred by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Somehow, she had bigger balls than the men on stage. The opportune moment appear when Hillary’s credibility came under the microscope by Anderson Cooper. Hillary is most vulnerable when her character comes into question. The email issue is the monstrosity hunkering over Clinton’s shoulders. Clinton responded to Cooper with a pocketed ace response—the email server was a mistake, yet it was allowed, but not the best choice. She has turned over 55,000 pages of emails and answered every question. Cooper continued his frontal assault stating that the FBI investigation was nonpartisan and even President Obama said it was a legitimate issue. “I never said it wasn’t legitimate,” she countered, after trashing the issue’s legitimacy, “I’m saying I have answered all the questions and will certainly be doing so again before this committee.”

Our “heroes”—Sanders, Chaffee, O’Malley, and Chafee—had the opportunity to strike and possibly defeat the oppressive overlord. Bernie managed to draw his sword from his sheath. Bernie led the charge with his comment: “May not be great politics, but I think the secretary is right. The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.” The two shook hands then Hillary cackled with glee. What the hell, “hero!” The prime opportunity to strike her down turned into a peace treaty. However, another “hero” decided to rise in the form of Chaffee. He fired his arrows straight to Hillary’s chest.

Chaffee said that the matter of presidential credibility was important, especially, in his opinion, since George W. Bush lied about the WMD’s in Iraq. Cooper gave Clinton an opportunity to respond, she said one word: no. The crowd went into a murderous frenzy of obnoxious applause and shouts. The battle was over. I couldn’t believe what I just seen. My mouth was left in shellshock. In one gambit, Clinton slaughtered them with no remorse. How could they miss it? What happened to the battle plan? Clinton—along with the rest of the political vultures—is not driven by conviction but political calculation. She has consistently switched positions of countless issues ranging from war, trade, and social reform. The only opponent to step up was the mild mannered, friendly neighborhood Chaffee.

Nevertheless, they all managed to rack up points on bearing false witness. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revised her statement on the Trans Pacific Partnership proclaiming she said she “hoped” it would be a “gold standard.” On Nov. 15, 2012, she said it was a gold standard. Switching back to the email scandal, Clinton said that using a personal email account “was allowed by the State Department.” The department also requires her to turn over her emails before she departed office. She turned in her emails on Dec. 5, 2014; she left office on Feb. 1, 2013. Sanders wrongly said that the U.S. had “more wealth and income inequality than any other country.” According to the Global Wealth Databook, the share of wealth amongst the 1% has declined to an estimated 37.3% this year. The United States is also ranked 11^th for income inequality among the 37 counties listed. Sanders has also botched the numbers concerning unemployment. “African American youth unemployment is 51%. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36%,” Sanders said. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in September, the unemployment rate for this age group was 24% for African Americans, 11.6% for Hispanics and 10.7% for whites. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. These facts are probably minor in the clogged toilet of politics. I almost forgot about the other three candidates. The reason is they’re easily forgettable: candidate cannon fodder.

It’s a shame we’re sold the same con by every politician who steps up. Tragedy molests us then politicians help us to our feet with words of “wisdom and compassion.” In the eyes of these vultures, we’re considered a bunch of lowlife sheep scum seeking for a shepherd. The millions described as disenfranchised cynics are considered pseudo-intellectual scum. The parties are sneaky chameleons camouflaging in whatever crowd fits them at the time. It’s like every election year is going to decide the face of guy who’ll be screwing us next.

Fight the power, Scum!