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\"cigar\"It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen,
\nberating Peter Finch as Howard Beale, in the movie Network<\/em><\/p>\n

The Democratic Party has declared war on Bernie Sanders. Now we hear a carefully orchestrated funeral dirge, the Black vote is Sanders\u2019 fatal weakness, and he should \u201csuspend\u201d his campaign, concede defeat, and make good on his pledge to support the party\u2019s nominee, even before Hillary Clinton is actually the party\u2019s nominee. They want Sanders to hit the Kill Switch on his own campaign, save them the trouble. But as the Empire Strikes Back, their every move blows up like an exploding cigar, and feeds ammunition to the growing Sanders army. It is time for the Political Revolution that Sanders and his supporters are fighting for to stand on its own feet.<\/p>\n

When Sanders crushed Hillary in New Hampshire, he became a mortal threat to be the Democratic Party and its anointed nominee. Time to recall Arthur Jensen\u2019s rant about \u201cthe primal forces of nature,\u201d our \u201cholistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels\u201d are getting \u201cmeddled with\u201d big time. The Political Revolution, once brushed off as a catchy campaign slogan, has begun to strike both hope and fear (depending on where you sit) in the hearts of millions and millionaires alike.<\/p>\n

The rule is \u201cdon\u2019t let them see you sweat!\u201d You could see it start dripping in the weeks leading up to Iowa and New Hampshire. In a February 6 interview on CNN, renowned liberal journalist Carl Bernstein gave us his pre-New Hampshire take on the party\u2019s growing unease:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are horrified at how Hillary Clinton is blowing up her own campaign. They’re worried that the Democrats could blow — they are horrified that the whole business of the [illegal e-mail server] transcripts, accepting the money [at $225,000 a pop for talking to the likes of Goldman Sachs], that she could blow the Democrats’ chance for White House. They want her to win. Obama wants her to win. \u2026 These ethical lapses have tied the White House up in knots. They don’t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attacks on Sanders started going off the rails, from the Steinem\/Albright feminist debacle, to accusing Sanders of being racist for not officially supporting reparations, to Chelsea Clinton propped up on the ramparts to lie about Sanders\u2019 healthcare plans, to some good old-fashioned red-baiting (\u201cIt\u2019s not that I personally have anything bad to say about socialism, but \u2026\u201d), to lecture after lecture on the merits of pragmatism, to warnings about the Second Coming of Satan as they evoked the specter of 2000 and the Green Party\u2019s Ralph Nader. (\u201cYes, Virginia, Ralph Nader is worse than Hitler.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\"nightmare\"All to no avail. Even the toothless poodle press was calling Iowa a tie (\u201ca wins is [not] a win\u201d) and New Hampshire left them writhing in angst.<\/p>\n

The pundits were stunned. They wailed about how Hillary had been over-confident. Hadn\u2019t attacked Sanders early enough. They suddenly discovered that the American people were actually angry over the destruction of their lives and of their country. The pundits didn\u2019t know who to fear most, Sanders or Trump.<\/p>\n

What to do? Crank the volume up to 11. The February 13 Washington Post<\/a> expressed a strange ambivalence:<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats backing Clinton say she must sharpen her pitch to compete with Sanders\u201d<\/h4>\n

Even as these Democrats remain committed to Clinton and express confidence that ultimately she will secure her party\u2019s presidential nomination, many also say that Clinton\u2019s near-loss in Iowa and drubbing in New Hampshire exposed weaknesses in her candidacy \u2026 \u201cAll of this stuff is going to be a distant memory by the time we get to April,\u201d said Texas Democratic Party chairman Gilberto Hinojosa. \u201cSo it\u2019ll hurt for a little while but she has an enormous ability to rebound and reestablish her position as a leader. I\u2019m not very concerned that that\u2019s going to be a big problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dissonance is glaring. Clinton is a lousy candidate, but all will be well, honest. Their salvation will come from the Black and Latino communities. Black deliverance equals Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

But who\u2019s going to pay for all this?<\/h4>\n

The barrage against Sanders, post-Nevada, is reaching new heights \u2014 or is that depths? Which is more dire? That Sanders would wreck the country, or Sanders would wreck the Democratic Party? There is now a carefully orchestrated campaign to actually drive Sanders out of the race, spook him to voluntarily \u201csuspend\u201d his campaign for the good of the party and all humanity. Drive off his supporters in despair.<\/p>\n

The Friday, February 12 Washington Post reported that Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC supporting Clinton, was about to spend $500,000 to launch a radio ad campaign in South Carolina, and that the Democratic National Committee had rolled back restrictions that banned donations from federal lobbyists and political action committees. Yet every move Hillary makes throws more gasoline on the fire. The Post goes on to lament:<\/p>\n

Actions by two Democratic groups could mean huge financial benefit for Clinton<\/a>
\n[T]he steps taken by the DNC and the main super PAC supporting her could also backfire, giving rival Bernie Sanders fresh fodder to highlight her relationship with Wall Street and other special interests at a time when the two candidates are locked in an intense nomination fight.<\/p>\n

Indeed, that is their bind. Still, Wall Street is what they have.<\/p>\n

\"jensen\"Enter the Congressional Black Caucus, stage right.<\/h4>\n

South Carolina is supposed to be the death blow. Right on cue, the Congressional Black Caucus<\/a> (CBC) makes its move. They endorsed Hillary through their PAC, which includes Purdue Pharma, maker of the highly addictive OxyContin, cigarette giant Philip Morris, and Hillary\u2019s own Wal-Mart, the largest gun distributor in America. Add on to that lobbyists for Navient, and Vic Fazio, who served for years as a lobbyist for the Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison-for-profit operation in the country. The CBC had been coasting on its reputation as some kind of progressive group. That reputation is finished.<\/p>\n

Charles Blow, in the February 10 New York Times<\/a>, uses the opportunistic catch-all that Sanders shouldn\u2019t even be talking to the Black community:<\/p>\n

\u201cTucked among all this Bernie-splaining by some supporters, it appears to me, is a not-so-subtle, not-so-innocuous savior syndrome and paternalistic patronage that I find so grossly offensive that it boggles the mind that such language should emanate from the mouths \u2014 or keyboards \u2014 of supposed progressives. But then I am reminded that the idea that black folks are infantile and must be told what to do and what to think is not confined by ideological barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blow gives it away, however, when he declares, \u201cBlack folks don\u2019t want to be \u2018betrayed by too much hoping.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

The Black community is charmingly called Hillary\u2019s \u201cfirewall,\u201d and it is the duty of hacks like Blow and the CBC to man that firewall. What the pundits are pointedly ignoring is that Hillary is starting to slip in the Black community, particularly the youth, and slipping very badly among working-class whites. The future is ours.<\/p>\n

We are not horses.<\/h4>\n

The war is intensifying on several levels, but the media, as usual, frames it as some kind of game. Everything is the horserace, the polls, \u201cgotcha\u201d politics. The race has indeed heated up. Sanders himself has heated up. His troops are being radicalized in ways not seen since the 60\u2019s.<\/p>\n

To the media, everything is about the candidate.<\/p>\n

Sanders.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In the campaign\u2019s early days, Sanders had been quite the gentleman. The word came down, lay off Hillary, accentuate the positive. His volunteers by-and-large toed the line. Sanders took quite a hammering in the media, \u201cSocialist! Socialist! Socialist!\u201d Finally, he started to cut loose, hammering back with \u201cWall Street! Wall Street! Wall Street!\u201d Sanders turned out to be quite the street fighter.<\/p>\n

In the course of the Democratic debates, Sanders himself was initially ambiguous about the Political Revolution, like it was \u201cmillions of people begin[ning] to come together and stand up and say:\u00a0 Our government is going to work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.\u201d (October) \u201cWhat my campaign is about is a political revolution. Millions of people standing up,\u201d etc. (November and December)<\/p>\n

Then at the January 17 debate, the formulation changed ever so slightly. Slightly, but significantly.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing real will happen. Unless we have a political revolution<\/strong>. Where millions of people finally stand up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you catch the difference? Subtle but significant. The campaign and the revolution are no longer synonymous. Winning some reforms is not itself the revolution. Rather, we have to have the Political Revolution IN ORDER TO win our reforms. In the early stages, he was reassuring the party that he was committed to supporting Hillary Clinton should he not win the nomination. Now, when asked the same question, he brushes the question off by stating that he is going to win. The bottom line, though, is that he is making no public commitment to fall in line behind Hillary.<\/p>\n

The troops.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The troops, bravely enduring the torrents of abuse, were ready to make the shift to the left. The Political Revolution began to move to the fore.<\/p>\n

\"cokePolitical Revolution perhaps started out as a catchy campaign slogan. After all, a new brand of toothpaste is revolutionary. Hair systems (razors) are revolutionary. Shoes are revolutionary. When I first started asking \u201cWhat\u2019s this Political Revolution\u201d thing, the answers were along the modest lines of getting a big voter turnout,\u201d or better yet, \u201cimplementing Bernie\u2019s platform.\u201d Such was the revolution to the extent that the R word was mentioned at all. Now people are learning.<\/p>\n

One quick example. Hillary smugly bragged about her warm relationship with Henry Kissinger, how she relied so heavily on his foreign policy advice, who per the Intercept<\/a> \u201cenabled dictators, extended the Vietnam War, laid the path to the Khmer Rouge killing fields, stage-managed a genocide in East Timor, overthrew the democratically elected left-wing government in Chile, and encouraged Nixon to wiretap his political adversaries.\u201d Millions of young people had had no idea who Henry Kissinger. Now they know.<\/p>\n

For its supporters who are new to politics, the Sanders campaign is worth a couple of college degrees in what the system of capitalism is, and how it works. These radical, \u201cleftist\u201d notions went mainstream.<\/p>\n

the ABC\u2019s of how the capitalism system works;
\nthe ABC\u2019s of how the Democratic Party works;
\nthe exposure of past heroes and progressive icons (Gloria Steinem, Paul Krugman) as political whores;
\nsupposedly progressive organizations like NOW, SEIU and Planned Parenthood selling out their members in hopes of seats at Hillary\u2019s table after the election.<\/p>\n

I needn\u2019t elaborate further.<\/p>\n

Not me. Us!<\/h4>\n

With Political Revolution increasingly on the tongues of the troops, we are coming to terms with what we are up against. What is at stake. That winning entails an entire complex, hard-fought revolutionary process. Nobody now thinks that Bernie taking up residence in the White House would be a revolution, would constitute the overthrow of corporate rule. You can\u2019t have a revolution without an \u201coverthrow.\u201d We are only beginning, taking a stand at our 21st century Lexington and Concord.<\/p>\n

This new thinking is embodied in the campaign\u2019s new slogan, \u201cNot me, US!\u201d<\/p>\n

We hear over and over people saying that, if Sanders doesn\u2019t win the nomination, they won\u2019t be voting for Hillary under any circumstances. A new slogan is starting to pop up, \u201cThis is our last chance to make a peaceful revolution.\u201d The interplay is complex. Sanders is growing more militant, moving his base left. And the growing anger of his troops is further driving Sanders himself.<\/p>\n

So one of the chief criticisms of Sanders coming from the left had been that at the start of his run, Sanders had vowed that he would graciously support the Democratic presidential nominee should it not be him. Don\u2019t worry about anything independent. Now the February 18, 2016 edition of The Hill<\/a>, headlines, \u201cSanders: Two-party system holds back competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSanders on Thursday called it \u2018wrong\u2019 that America’s two-party system shuts out other parties from elections. \u2018I chose to run proudly in the Democratic primary and caucus and look forward to winning that process. But clearly, as a nation, I think we flourish when there are different ideas out there,\u2019 Sanders said during MSNBC’s Democratic presidential candidate forum in Nevada on Thursday. \u2018Sometimes the two-party system makes it very, very difficult to get on the ballot if you are a third party, and I think that’s wrong. I think we should welcome competition.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

Sanders has not threatened to run independent himself should he fail to get the nod, but that pledge not to has disappeared from his repertoire. Now he ducks the question by saying that he is going to win. Period. But the above statements \u2014 so it would seem \u2014 are at least a wink and a nod to his supporters that he would not be horrified at the prospects of his troops pulling the lever for the Green Party\u2019s Jill Stein. The Green Party itself is coming apart over the Sanders campaign, some condemning it in the most strident terms. But Stein herself has been openly courting Sanders\u2019 troops should Hillary become the Democratic standard-bearer for 2016:<\/p>\n

The Kill Switch<\/h4>\n

Wikipedia<\/a>: \u201cA kill switch, also known as an emergency stop or e-stop, is a safety<\/a> mechanism used to shut off a device in an emergency situation in which it cannot be shut down in the usual manner. Unlike a normal shut-down switch\/procedure, which shuts down all systems in an orderly fashion and turns the machine off without damaging it, a kill switch is designed and configured to completely and as quickly as possible abort the operation (even if this damages equipment<\/strong>).\u201d<\/p>\n

\"killswitch\"\u201ceven if this damages equipment.\u201d See, to them, we\u2019re just the \u201cequipment.\u201d We cannot stand in the way of \u201cthe primal forces of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look back. Way back.<\/p>\n

In the Russian Revolution, the Russian people held the streets, stormed the Winter Palace, and all that. But they were woefully unprepared for the shit-storm that was about to befall them. Out of necessity, they recruited the best of the Czar\u2019s former generals and put them to work building the Red Army. The relationship was sometimes deadly between the commissars and the generals, but they won that civil war by making such accommodations.<\/p>\n

So it is with the Sanders campaign. To operate as a serious contender at the national level, to have come so far so quickly, the Sanders campaign has had to make use of trained professionals bred and raised in Democratic campaigns of all sorts. Some of these professionals saw it as just another gig. Others (the majority) have taken it to heart. We saw the success of this in New Hampshire. But in the early stages of the Sanders run, even with the fundraising based on millions of ordinary people, the campaign had a very traditional tone in how it organized. Such is the price of playing in the big leagues.<\/p>\n

The Political Revolution, stage center.<\/h4>\n

Here\u2019s what we have to get. The Political Revolution is not, as Samuel L. Jackson put it in Pulp Fiction, \u201ca cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass.\u201d It is not identical to the Sanders campaign. This got muddled in the early stages, because the call for Political Revolution emerged OUT OF the Sanders campaign. But the movement for the Political Revolution, inchoate as it was, not yet named, pre-existed the Sanders campaign. What I would call Sanders\u2019 genius was that he saw that movement, that anger, that social movement, early on, and saw that a Political Revolution provided the FOUNDATION for a left presidential run.<\/p>\n

In hindsight, we can better understand the distinction that the Sanders campaign is PART OF the Political Revolution, and the Political Revolution will exist long after the Sanders campaign. Certainly the Establishment has a dull awareness of this, and it has them losing sleep.<\/p>\n

But how will that solidify, how will that continue and grow? It seems highly unlikely that the Sanders operation itself will become the new revolutionary party. The Sanders campaign isn\u2019t structured that way, it is part of a non-revolutionary party that will never itself become a revolutionary party. As noted above, it is an amalgam of developing revolutionaries, well-meaning traditional liberals, and a few not-so-well-meaning Democratic Party operatives. This provides grist for the \u201cSanders is doomed!\u201d people, who want his capitulation to Hillary to come sooner rather than later. There are those whose hands are already twitching to reach for the Kill Switch, some who are completely cynical, some who are merely faint-hearted.<\/p>\n

Consider this. It has been reported that in South Carolina, canvassers are being paid $15\/hour to canvass the Black community door-to-door. That is a good thing, albeit a bit late in the process. But where do those people go the day after the primary, when their paychecks are cut off?<\/p>\n

Some will soldier on. Others won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Consider this. The Sanders campaign did a massive phone operation for Iowa and especially New Hampshire. Sanders\u2019 troops were mobilized from all around the country to pull this off. It worked. But come the South Carolina primary, well \u2026<\/p>\n

Establishment arithmetic vs. Revolutionary arithmetic.<\/h4>\n

\"arithmetic\"The pundits keep talking about the arithmetic. They\u2019re counting electoral votes from South Carolina and the Super Tuesday states, and calling for the mortician. I don\u2019t know how Sanders will do on Super Tuesday, but that\u2019s beside the point. I am raising the vulnerability of the TYPE of campaign he is forced to wage. So his phone operation for Iowa and New Hampshire was largely (of necessity) a top-down affair. When I asked Sanders national operative Corbin Trent what the campaign planned to do to organize the Black community in Florida, his answer was that we had to make a lot of calls to Iowa and New Hampshire, and victory there would somehow translate into winning the Black vote in Florida, with Sanders\u2019 Florida campaign hardly needing to set foot in Florida\u2019s Black communities. When I tried to raise the issue in St. Petersburg back in November, said that we had to be looking toward the March 15 Florida primary, I was told that March 15 , was a long way off. It\u2019s not such a \u201clong way off\u201d now, is it? For some folks, it\u2019s conveniently too early to be talking about all sorts of stuff, like it\u2019s too soon to be talking about this Political Revolution. Fact is, to some people it\u2019s always too early.<\/p>\n

The point is that the switch is all too easy to pull.<\/p>\n

But to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, \u201cYou go to war with the campaign you have, not the campaign you might want or wish you had at a later time.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point, our choices are limited. The population of the Super Tuesday states outnumbers Iowa and New Hampshire by nearly 77 to 1. If Sanders wants to be competitive, he has to cut all sorts of corners, raise money, and pray that that money \u2014 in terms of buying TV time \u2014 wins over a large electorate. There just isn\u2019t time for building solid local infrastructure. It is significant that Sanders\u2019 money is coming from the grassroots, while Hillary\u2019s is coming from Wall Street and Big Pharma and the Prison-Industrial Complex. But it is also significant that the two campaigns are using that money in similar ways, buying canvassers and media buys and professional staff. The game is to make headlines, project strength, and count on people\u2019s anger powering the Sanders campaign to a big win. Will that be enough?<\/p>\n

Accepting that this is the campaign we have, it only further underlines why it\u2019s critical that the Political Revolution that Sanders inspired not be synonymous with that campaign.<\/p>\n

For the souls of the working class: Sanders vs. Trump.<\/h4>\n

Another fight is running parallel to and overlapping this electoral campaign, much bigger than just Sanders vs. Hillary. In Weimar Germany in the 1920\u2019s, there was a battle for the hearts of the working class, between the socialists and communists versus Hitler and the Nazis. The working class was suffering from massive inflation and unemployment. Would they support the socialists in their fight against capital, or would they support Hitler in scapegoating the Jews and embracing militarism? The progressive side lost. Only dimly noted is the fact that a similar fight is being waged today for the hearts and minds and soul of the working class (just substitute Muslims for Jews). That fight is reflected in the one between Sanders and Trump, and it seems that Sanders is winning so far. Hillary\u2019s base is primarily upper-income whites along with the Black establishment, and should she succeed in throwing Sanders under the bus, leaving the working-class field to Trump, the possible consequences are terrible to contemplate.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Hillary attacks Sanders on the grounds that he might ensure<\/a> a win for Donald Trump. But Glen Greenwald writes in \u201cWith Trump Looming, Should Dems Take a Huge Electability Gamble by Nominating Hillary Clinton?<\/a>\u201d that in fact Sanders, in every poll, is by far the most electable candidate against every Republican, including Trump. Greenwald asks, \u201cBut given the lurking possibility of a Trump presidency, is now really the time to gamble on such a risky General Election candidate as Hillary Clinton?\u201d<\/p>\n

One can only speculate that the Democratic Party power brokers would rather throw the election to Trump than to lose control of the Democratic Party, like they did to George McGovern against Richard Nixon in 1972.<\/p>\n

The Bloody Morning After.<\/h4>\n

\"smoke\"In traditional terms (\u201chorserace\u201d), we may or may not be winning. In Revolutionary terms, we are winning. We have to let that in. We\u2019ve come a long way in a short time, and our morale must be iron-clad.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve worked with and around Democratic Party professionals over the years. One thing I\u2019ve learned is that they try to manipulate it so that their volunteers drop dead (usually figuratively) from exhaustion at the end of Election Day. The professionals, however, are most focused on the day after the election \u2014 the Bloody Morning After, when whatever they\u2019ve organized gets consolidated, and when the goodies are passed out.<\/p>\n

With our campaign, at some point, canvassers will be laid off. Many of the professionals in different states will start looking for their next gig. Media coverage will move on to the next primary. Such is the Kill Switch in action. Even if Sanders makes it to the White House, the Kill Switch is ready to flick, just like after Obama\u2019s victory in 2008. And what becomes of the Political Revolution?<\/p>\n

Should Sanders fail to become the Democratic Party standard-bearer, there is still one obvious move to make that lets us tell the world that the Political Revolution is still alive. That is to vote for the Green Party\u2019s Jill Stein. The Green Party may be a dubious long-term vehicle for continuing our Revolution, but it nonetheless offers us the opportunity to make a strong statement. We can no longer afford lesser-evil politics, whether independent or Democratic. The Establishment\u2019s rules have gotten us into this mess that we and the nation and the world are in. Time to break them.<\/p>\n

In Sanders\u2019 own words as quoted above:<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly, as a nation, I think we flourish when there are different ideas out there. Sometimes the two-party system makes it very, very difficult to get on the ballot if you are a third party, and I think that’s wrong. I think we should welcome competition.\u201c<\/p>\n

That\u2019s as much as he can say right now. We can say what we want. And in any event, we won\u2019t mourn \u2014 we\u2019ll organize?<\/p>\n

\u2014 submitted by Jeff Roby
\nFebruary 24, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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