"Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled ....

"Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

George Orwell

"Jill Stein: The Democratic Party 'fakes left,' marches right"

It is not too late to avoid the "marches right" part of this astute analysis by a real liberal progressive who shares the values of FDR's Democratic Party:

Washington (CNN)There's an independent senator -- a democratic socialist, no less -- with climate change on the brain making a real play for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton, who exudes establishment politics...."Forward movement is a good thing, but I always include that it's not enough, and we have to have a base where we can truly build," Stein told CNN. "That cannot be done inside of the corporate, establishment political parties." ..."I think we share very similar values and visions," Stein said. "I just happen to be working in a party that supports those values and those visions."

Sanders has made changing the Democratic Party a key pitch to his voters. Stein's disdain for the Democratic Party is key to hers.

"I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants and war profiteers," Stein said.... "The party allows progressive faces to sort of be their figurehead for a little while, but while it does that, while it sort of fakes left, the party continues to march toward the right," Stein told CNN.

Stein said the Democratic Party, along with the Republican Party, represented corporate interests and has not allowed progressives to take charge. The story she told of the Democratic Party was one of a party that had used its "kill switch," in the form of packed primary days, like Super Tuesday, and super delegates, to take down "very good and principled campaigns" over the decades.
These progressive campaigns "are invariably sabotaged by the (Democratic) party," she said.

Progressive Northeasterner vs Establishment Centrist Popular in the South vs Republican Entertainer

Imagine a race where the Republican primary rejected up-and-coming Senators and popular Governors and, instead, the Republicans nominated an "entertainer" that the Democrats (and even some country club Republicans) thought of as a joke.

Imagine a Democratic primary where almost the entire party establishment was behind a centrist candidate who was very popular among Democrats in the South but the campaign was showing weaknesses elsewhere, and the underdog Democratic challenger was a Northeastern progressive who was beloved and encouraged by the liberal base but who the Republicans (and even some conservative Democratics) dismissed as a socialist.

Imagine that.

Get that scenario firmly planted in your head.

Imagine that the Republicans nominate an "entertainer" with a history of saying goofy things that - somehow - don't sink his campaign(even though they should). And imagine the Democrats must choose between a centrist who is popular in the Deep South and who is supported by almost the entire Democratic establishment and who offers more status quo at a time when some feel left out of the hit-and-miss economy versus a progressive underdog from the Northeast who is adored by the liberal base but dismissed as too controversial by some conservative Democrats.

Are you imagining all of that?

Now imagine if we could go back and choose Ted Kennedy over Jimmy Carter and avoid Ronald Reagan defeating Carter.

Imagine how much better America would be today if we had taken a different path and we never had 8 years of the Reagan administration and - instead - we had a new Kennedy administration to fulfill the legacy of JFK and FDR.

I would fight for that alternative.

In life, we seldom get the chance to go back and replay a moment in time to make a different choice and restart down a promising path we mistakenly rejected in the past.

Please join me in supporting Bernie Sanders. I don't think this year's status quo centrist - even with the support of almost the entire Democratic establishment - will beat this year's Republican who we dismiss as an entertainer.