Americans: Bernie Sanders or Hilary Clinton

[Whateverist]

I will vote or Sanders, if he makes it to the finals, for no other reason but to listen to the Wingers in this country go completely bat shit crazy.  Other than that though, I will probably be far away on election day and not bother.  Anyone who thinks that this country can be saved by an election is, in my humble opinion, living a fantasy.  At some point a system is too badly broken to be fixed.  Progress will only come when that system is replaced by something new.  Any election that does nothing but put Democrats and Republicans in the White House, the Senate, and the House, will just be more of the same old system.

Light me up a revolution.  Put millions of Americans in the streets calling for resignations, trials, imprisonments, and wide spread removal of the elite in power.  Have them rampage through the SC building, haul the Justices who voted for Citizen United before a tribunal and have them tried for treason.  Actually Occupy Wall Street this time, haul that bronze bull out and throw it in the Bay, shut down the Market until the Big Banks are busted up, and have the CEOs doing perp-walks while Faux news goes dark because the FCC pulled their operating ticket in fear of the protesters paralyzing DC and chasing winger governors out of State Houses across the nation.  Write and approve a new Constitution.  The old one gave us the nation we see now, steeped in elitism, crony capitalism, war mongering, violence, racism, and misogyny.

Start any of that and I might think something is finally happening.  Otherwise it will just be the US fading into the dustbin of history.  The only real question is what comes next, and how it arrives.  But it will not arrive on the back of a sham election put on by a sham democracy, were the voters are a people buried in propaganda and unable to tell fact from fiction.

We may not be too far from that. The rich can't keep leeching a country dry of money forever. Eventually there will be an uprising.

I don't intend to bet on that.  While I agree there comes a time to oil up the guillotines, it should be a last resort.  Given the realities at work today I think progress by incremental degree is much, much, much better than the continued deterioration of the middle and working* class which we can count on to the degree republican power increases.  Eventually there may be an uprising but rest assured you will have more to regret than celebrate.  A civilized if slow take over is to be preferred.

* So sad that there is such a wide spread difference between working and middle class. Working full time should never necessitate government aid to supplement cheapskate businesses.