Everywhere there has been an open primary or caucus, Bernie won decisively.  Just about everywhere he lost was a closed contest. Closed,where independent voters weren’t merely excluded, but would have had to register democrat as long as six months ago just to vote.

Independents are a far larger voting bloc than democrats or republicans.

Last night was no exception. The four he lost were closed.  The one he won was open.

Deliberately arcane bullshit.

This system that Sanders and Trump rail against is absolutely rigged.

Minus the archaic rules that exclude independents, we’d be looking now at a general election starring Sanders and Trump. Bernie would be well on his way to making the callow megalomaniacal jackass cry in front of his ignorant bigoted supporters by now.

What we have now is a choice between two candidates with the highest unfavorable ratings in our history. One is filthy rich and refuses to release any tax returns and the other refuses to release the transcripts of absurdly lucrative speeches made to the arch enemy of you and me that made her filthy rich.  Both are world class blowhards that will say anything to win.  Both are morally and ethically bereft and both alternate between empty slogans and embarrassing displays of inauthentic populism.

Americans are stupid and the system somehow knows it.

I can’t stand it.

The political revolution Bernie Sanders championed must continue until the rich have to deal with only cake left to eat.  Or at least until our representatives aren’t only there because of some transactions and the districts bought for them.  Until we begin to jail the white collar pricks that crashed us all and still crack the whip everyday. The ones that will get away with it again. Until we ban fracking and take the subsidies from fossil fuels and give them to wind and solar.  Until there is racial justice.  Until we get over this perpetual war thing.

Neither doppelganger foisted on us this time will do fuck all about any of this.

These insidious devils who haunt our political process so thoroughly manage to inject into everything that we experience.

Bernie Sanders should not blunt his rhetoric against either front runner, he should hone it like a goddamn broadsword.

Go Bernie go.

Drinks for my friends.

*Once again I’ve attached an unreleased song I helped make the life of two cats ago.  There is a bar at the very top of the blog and all you have to do is click the play button.  The band was called Agnes Gooch and they were the shit.  I probably cut 30 songs with them.  They got a record deal.  The record went double balsa and they probably all have day jobs now like me.  My demos absolutely smoked the record they made.  This sort of thing happened a lot.     

 

 

 

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