ABC, damn it!

Now, as usual in our wretched politics, I rarely have good words to say about the candidates. You already know my ABC mantra, Anybody But Clinton, and her top-down, big money, DLC-dominated campaign stuffed by the likes of the corrupt Terry McAuliffe, the ghastly Rahm Emanuel, and Chuck Schumer, the senator from the financial services industry, not to mention all the rest of the hacks who have thrown election after election rather than give in to the grass roots. Thanks to these people -- who every four years pulled out the threat of GOP takeover of the Supreme Court to make the lesser of two evils distinction -- voila, the Supreme Court is the most reactionary since the early 1930s. PLUS, that war she voted for. Shame! Shame! SHAME!

Obama, on the other hand, with his background in community activism, is buoyed by the grass roots. I find this heartening. His politics are currently tepid, but the point of grass roots is that they can push. (This is why the DLC has been so concerned with keeping us penned out.) Most Americans have the mistaken notion that we need leaders. But we are not children. We should be forcing our surrogates to represent us, to follow us... for in a democracy, the people are the leaders. Maybe someday…