Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that his primary bid against Hillary Clinton was far from over, pointing to his victory in Indiana and strength in upcoming races as a sign of his durability in the presidential campaign.
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Bye Bye Cruz!
The best news I have heard this morning is that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his presidential campaign on Tuesday. Talk about a country being up the shit creek without a paddle, had this idiot been able to become the next leader of America, we would all have been screwed.
The Fight to Stop the US Establishment, Big Business and the Media
American voters, from all parties, are fed up with the mainstream media and its bias towards establishment politicians, and with establishment politicians in general. They are tired of being ignored and taken for granted by the very politicians who are suppose to be working for the best interest of America and its people, not the wealthy elitist who take from the poor to line their pockets with more wealth. This is why we are seeing a political revolution take place with Bernie Sanders and yes, Donald Trump too. We are seeing the American people standing up against the party establishments, a rigged election system, to demand that they are treated fairly in a system that currently caters to the wealthiest individuals.
Americans believe that when they go the ballot box they decide the fate of their country, rights, and families. They go to vote because they live in a democratic country that allows them to do so with the ideal that those votes will matter when it comes policy making and the well being of America and its people. But more and more we are seeing these voters lose faith in “democratic” America. They are looking for candidates that will fight for equality and speak up about the needs of the average American and are determined to stay away from the typical mainstream politicians like Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio.
For the first time since the 1960s and early 1970s there is an openly socialist participant in the presidential race in the US. It has been decades since we have seen a US presidential candidate dare to publicly proclaim his socialist background, and lead the fight against social inequality that currently exist in “democratic” American. It is also the first time in decades that we are seeing a candidate push back against illegal immigration, pointing out how the continuation down the same path we are currently seeing, will only lead to the destruction of America and it’s people. There should be little doubt as to why Sanders and Trump are seeing the “absolute support” from everyday American voters as the are. These voters have vowed to continue the fight to stop the US establishment, big business and the media.
Why Sanders is running as a democrat and not an independent.
Independents are at a disadvantage because of federal campaign finance laws, rules that dictate who can enter presidential debates, and a lack of media attention. Campaign finance rules say that a political party can only get government funding to run a race if it received a certain percentage of votes which leaves Independent candidates to fund their own campaigns. Because they are given less media coverage, they are left to find other means of exposure to raise the millions of dollars it takes to run a successful campaign in this country under what is a rigged system that is designed to support only two parties. These two parties have come to represent two basic and contrasting ideas about how politics and policy should be run.
Leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties have rigged our elections by creating a series of rules to squelch competition. It was created and enforced by a private organization known as the Commission on Presidential Debates which is unaccountable to the public, run by party insiders, funded by large multinational corporations and lobbyists, and operating in complete secrecy. To be elected president you must participate in the debates held at certain times during an election. Debates are validators. They tell Americans who the official choices are. The parties use the CPD to make sure that only their nominees, and no one else, can ever become president, or even seriously influence the presidential election. For the last 20 years, the CPD has perpetuated a two party system, keeping Independent candidates out of the debates, a system created to keep Independents from competing on a level playing field. A system run by longtime Democratic and Republican insiders such as its co-chairman and co-founder, Frank Fahrenkopf who was the former chairman of the Republican National Committee and the gaming industry’s top lobbyist.
Another important piece of the puzzle is how the DNC changed its rules. This year’s DNC rules state, “Any candidate or debate sponsor wishing to participate in DNC debates, must agree to participate exclusively in the DNC-sanctioned process. Any violation would result in forfeiture of the ability to participate in the remainder of the debate process.” These means that any candidates choosing to take part in debates that are not sanctioned by the DNC—which has happened in virtually every presidential election cycle—they would for the first time be banned from taking part in the official debates.
As Lewis Black says, “Our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking in the mirror at itself. … Basically, the last eight years, I feel, the Republicans stood around farting and the Democrats went, ‘Ooh, let me smell it.'” Simply put, for anyone to have any chance at winning they have to have a “D” or “R” beside their name.
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