Results were known before polls opened Tuesday morning. The same holds throughout the farcical political season—a meaningless pre-scripted exercise in theater, substance entirely excluded.
Media hoopla conceals a process too corrupted to fix. Democracy in America is a four-letter word—a rigged Big Money controlled duopoly power system. Voters have no say whatever. Dirty business as usual wins every time.
Green Party presidential aspirant Dr. Jill Stein is the real thing, a true populist supporting governance of, by and for everyone equitably—getting virtually no media coverage. Editorial scoundrels treat her like a nonperson.
She and other independents are shut out, ignored and prevented from competing on a level playing field. The system is rigged to exclude them.
In America, what Wall Street, war-profiteers and other robber barons want, they get. Republicans and Democrats are cookie cutouts of each other, not a dime’s worth of difference between them.
Campaign promises are made to be broken. All duopoly power candidates march to the same drummer—no exceptions.
None match Jill Stein’s advocacy for peace, ecological sanity, social justice and real grassroots participatory democracy, what America never had from inception, for sure not now.
For what it’s worth, Trump and Clinton won big on Tuesday. Both look unstoppable to meet in November.
A Trump v. Clinton race amounts to choosing between death by hanging or firing squad—an unorthodox billionaire real estate tycoon v. Wall Street’s favorite.
Either succeeding Obama assures dirty business as usual continuing seamlessly. It won’t miss a beat.
Tuesday was only super for power brokers controlling things. Primary season has painful months to go.
Democracy in America is pure illusion. None whatever exists.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.” Visit his blog at sjlendman.blogspot.com . Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.
Should Clinton, as seems likely, defeat the Sanders candidacy, I sincerely hope Sanders’ supporters will shift their allegiance to Jill Stein and split the Democratic vote. The DNC Democratic Party needs to be destroyed. As for the possibility of a Trump presidency, I quote Robert Graves, “Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out”.