She thought she had it all bagged up--the Corrupt Media, the bought-and-paid for endorsers, control of the DNC and its corporate money and its chair, Clinton-stacked primaries, plenty of big bucks to hit on the early voters before they knew the name Sanders (that minor annoyance), every evil global corporation on her side (drooling over TPP), a juicy foil in Donald Trump, neo-con advisers on board for whatever wars the MIC profiteers may need--Henry Kissinger, Robert (PNAC) Kagan (I kid you not)--the MIC in the bag, the prison MIC in the bag, Wall Street in the bag, the banksters in the bag, maybe President Obama in the bag (iffy, I think--hard man to read), and then...
Sanders isn't so minor any more...
and then...
People start hearing Sanders in stunned amazement at the truths he is telling them...
and then...
and the truth starts to go viral.
The thing Sanders has done is to FREE the truth from its jail. He doesn't need to say it all. He merely needed to start saying some simple truths that the American people almost NEVER hear from politicians or public office holders, like our political system is corrupt, like, why is the middle class disappearing in the richest country in the world?
Simple, obvious truths and the floodgates hiding the truth from the American people start opening. And people--in this case, some people from Greenpeace--start asking hard questions of politicians like Clinton who are thriving in the corporate oligarchy that has taken over our country, who are thriving on big bucks from the very industries that are killing our planet.
She was right, in a way, to blame Bernie Sanders. He opened the way to truth telling. He's given the truth a platform to stand on.
I have to credit the "Occupy" movement, too, and the anti-WTO protests that preceded it. But those people were just "riff-raff" and "peons" and "sore loser hippies" who got shut down by the police and written off as nothing seriously threatening to the uber-rich. Sanders, on the other hand, is running a highly successful grass roots campaign for president of the United States, and, though he endures massive black-holing by the Corrupt Media, his message IS getting through and voters are giving him spectacular victories, of 70% and 80% of the votes, in recent primaries.
Sanders has taken the massive discontent in the country and turned it into a campaign for reform the first premise of which is telling the truth.
The truth hit Clinton hard today. She handled it very badly. It's not very "presidential" to bristle at "the Sanders campaign" for a Greenpeace question about the fossil fuel industry funding her campaign.
But she is correct that Sanders is the "enemy" for helping the truth get out there--for inspiring people to ask such questions. It surprises me not at all that it made her angry. It did surprise me that she let it show. That's why I laughed--not because it's funny. It really isn't. It's a very, very serious matter--our melting planet. But because she lost her composure. Didn't expect her to get so rattled. Bad sign for her campaign.
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