BRATTLEBORO — The Democratic Party establishment rigged and then cheated Bernie Sanders out of the nomination in the primary election. Instead, they chose an establishment, corporate candidate with deep roots in Wall Street.
The miscalculation was plainly evident with the critical counties in the Rust Belt states that voted solidly for Sanders and then solidly for Donald Trump. This result aptly highlights the dissonance between the Democratic Party and its mass of supporters.
For liberals and progressives, those underhanded actions during the Primary are not the values that we should be embracing. The Democratic Party has totally lost contact with its core supporters.
Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have for years used people, abused and manipulated them, and then cast them aside. Each election cycle, we go through this sickening charade of persuasion, and once the vote is secured, voters are of no further use and can then be discarded.
Issues that the party has promised to address during the election are either forgotten or are skewed in such a way as to benefit the party's corporate masters. In any case, these two parties both proudly represent corporate America.
On the political spectrum, the Democratic Party sits just to the right of center. Perhaps now is the time to implement real change. There is no way that the party will reform itself, for that will mean really thinking of the poor and oppressed. The status quo is what it desires.
The progressives should abandon these ne'er-do-wells. Let the bastards stew in their own juices on the right where they belong. And the progressives can honestly begin to occupy all the space on the left and chart their own course, with their heads held high.
This strategy would then finally break the logjam and illegality of the two-party system.