Relax—Bernie’s Supporters Will Back Hillary If She’s the Nominee

[PATRICK]

60. Memory lane

Watching the former HHH(Humphrey) despisers watching TV in the dorm room, piecing together the election results for the hopeful election- even if by the electoral college alone. For months branding him as the hack who danced gleefully while the media did the Chicago convention riots and the putting down of the insurrection. All pre-internet so you never saw the changes or viewpoints outside the media opinions. Oh yeah they booted a very mild and very respected CBS reporter off the Convention floor. What was the meme. Oh yes, the shot RFK would have lost to and backed HHH anyway. The political machine and the public distaste for Tricky Dick(whioch we would hear again from a derisive McGovern) would unite the country. Months of deadly media silence while HHH was out looking for dollars and healing, finally turning on LBJ over the war.

When people tell you they have seen shit before you must believe America is a permanent diarrhea patient. It is not the young people who do not or are not allowed to vote in record numbers unless someone very popular is running. Even if that were the case the older voters control the ballot box if they too are, for once in their lives maybe, excited in a positive way. I would prefer along with George Washington that parties and political pros disappear but that is naive if we let them have so much unmerited power over choice itself.

Beyond this group I listen to the people who might have been gained by Sanders and those(with a great deal of new money) who mobilize against Hillary. No one here on DU is THE problem although many are bellwethers of what is happening and to come. Hillary should win, but after the unchallenged Theft 2000 and its sequels we seem to have put off the passive logic being that massive plurality and turnout is the key, then locking the key inside its box somewhere. To power that we had to risk new talent, positive populism and positive progressivism not play off the fear and anger the other side has jealously monopolized. All Dems had to do was act on what voters simply needed or felt strongly about aside from delusional and self destructive frustration. This whole universe, as might be noted looking about, is one immense fight against nothingness and dissolution and it doesn't happen by pretending to stand very still.