The co-founder of Black Lives Matter has struck a cynical deal with corporate Democrats to boost Elizabeth Warren by attacking Bernie Sanders forces as racist.
The black misleadership class and their friends are preparing for the 2020 presidential election in a predictably shameful manner. In an effort to do the bidding of the Democratic Party establishment they are cynically using claims of racism in an effort to prop up Elizabeth Warren as the faux progressive choice. In the process they have relegated black voter concerns to the whims of the group whose corrupt and inept machinations put Donald Trump in the White House.
This sad story begins with the Working Families Party (WFP). Despite its well chosen name it is merely a front group for the Democratic Party. The word party in their title is a misnomer. WFP rarely runs its own slate of candidates, instead Democrats run with WFP endorsements in an effort to appear progressive. The sleight of hand often succeeds in giving leftist Democratic voters hope that their center right party may actually do something they would like.
In 2016, the WFP membership endorsed Bernie Sanders with 80% of their votes. The WFP recently endorsed Elizabeth Warren but the leadership have declined to say by how much or if the vote of members differed from that of the leadership.
It is fair to conclude that this reticence indicates that the game was rigged in favor of Warren and that the membership still supports Sanders. But as the old saying goes, a hurt dog hollers, and the WFP and their friends didn’t disappoint. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and others led the charge by claiming that anyone questioning the result was a racist bent on discrediting WFP’s black leadership.
For good measure, they gave great attention to self-identified Sanders supporters who made racist and sexist statements online. Sanders and his team quickly decried the offensive statements but to no avail. The political theater culminated with an open letter signed by more than 100 people who were on board with the attempt to discredit legitimate inquiry and use black people as their justification.
Black leaders are joined at the hip with the Democratic Party, whose sole mission through the 2020 convention is to stop Bernie Sanders. They know that Sanders speaks to people’s needs and would win the nomination and election absent any interference from donors, the party or its operatives. The WFP is a perfect partner for the fraud because it exists only as a cover for the Democrats. Who better to give the impression that progressives prefer Warren to Sanders?
The sad episode won’t be the last of the presidential campaign. So-called
The plight of black voters fits in nicely in pushing the scam. After having reduced their political demands to nothing more than keeping Republicans out of office, they are at the mercy of the Democratic Party and its under-handed dealings. The misleaders have nothing to offer the people they claim to represent except lip service and window dressing.
If the signatories of the letter really wanted to have a productive impact they wouldn’t be caught up in ginned up disputes. Instead they would organize to make meaningful demands of the Democrats. But that is not the role they play in politics. In 2016 they sided with Hillary Clinton in an equally dishonest way. As soon as the Sanders campaign showed signs of life the Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee hurriedly endorsed her. Charles Rangel said that Sanders didn’t know any black people. “Civil rights icon” John Lewis questioned Sanders’ movement bona fides. Clinton got the party nod with their help, but went down to defeat on election day.
This sad episode will be repeated until the Democratic Party convention takes place in July 2020. There isn’t any question of whether the outcome will be rigged. The question is what those who call themselves leftists will do about the broad daylight robbery.
Hopefully the chicanery will result in the end of progressive illusions about the Democrats. But no one has to wait until next year to give up on wishful thinking. Every four years progressives engage in hope that the Democrats will actually permit their candidate of choice to be nominated.
We have seen this movie and we know the ending. Progressives must begin heading for the Democratic Party exits now. Overlooking Sanders support for U.S. aggression in exchange for an increased minimum wage is to sell one’s soul for nothing. There is no hope for justice at home or peace abroad within the confines of the Democratic Party.
If the election is rigged badly enough there won’t even be a chance for a Democratic Party president. A replay of a Trump victory may be in the offing if the misleaders aren’t called to account right now.
Margaret Kimberley’s Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere. She maintains a frequently updated blog as well at freedomrider.blogspot.com. Ms. Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgendaReport.com.
Organizations like the, Black Lives Matter, Black Caucus, Women for Women only divide the masses and verify racist and gender agendas which they all claim to be totally against. Reality is these groups are against bias of others but fail to ever look into the mirror. At least by coming up with a name like, Working Family Party, the creators attempt to show no race gender, ethic, or religious preference.
One group calling another socialist in 2019 shows just how ignorant such a group assumes the American public has become or how ignorant the group actually is. Anyone with a social security card is a practicing socialist regardless if they believe in socialism or not. We are what we practice on Monday morning not what we teach on Sunday morning.
With exception to a very few, all Americans today practice all 10 planks of the communist manifesto and don’t have a clue what those 10 planks are and don’t want to know. Example the tenth planks calls for the free education of all school age children by the Police State. How many of us have been educated by the Police State? I dare to say over 95%. Our Founding Fathers gave us the Bill Of Rights to protect us from public servants who once obtain a feather in their hat they all become corrupt. Power corrupts, I know of only one example to the contrary. Just to show how ignorant the American voters are due to being educated by the Police State, I will quote Larry Milby by asking his two simple questions.
Number 1; What came first, the Police State or the State Police??? Here in America to deceive the masses all the New World Orderist had to do was reverse the words and we never caught it. Police State / State Police.
Number 2; We are the greatest Nation ever to exist upon the face of earth so we are told. We pledge allegiance to the flag, “one nation under God,” Lincoln stated and led us into war between ourselves to preserve the Union and the Nation. The second question is this; What is the name of our Nation??? It honestly has a name. Before the Supreme Court limited arguments to less than 30 minutes, there was a case that answered this question because their was one party who dared to question the name of our Nation. In the 1700s and 1800s there was over 200 separate Nations coixsitaning on American soil. Our Founding Fathers with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation established one more Nation on American soil. They did not take control of America nor did they replace all the other Nations. Our Nation went on to create a Corporation named the United States of American. That Corporation established a Constitutional Republic not a Democracy or Socialist Police State. It is not mandatory for all to be a member or citizen of this great Nation. We are free to become citizen of the United States or a citizen of any of the Native American Nations who will have us. Or we can elect to remain free from all nation affiliations. I ask again, What is the name of our Nation, the Nation that the United States Corporation represents and claims to protect??????