The Green Party might have had a realistic chance for the presidency had Bernie Sanders not amputated his “political revolution” and instead joined presidential nominee Jill Stein on the Green ticket. But Sanders was the sheep-dogging company man Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report said he was. The Green Party will not win this year, but with support it may win soon. A decade ago Syriza in Greece polled at five percent. Now it is in power. In 1853 there was no Republican Party. In 1861 they put an abolitionist in the White House. Stranger things have happened. Of course, one could also point out that Hitler was polling at 4 percent in 1928. That historical horror aside, the population is a sleeping giant waiting to be woken up en masse. If the disaffected non-voters and the disillusioned independents and the disbelieving Sandernistas all came together, they might topple the prevailing orthodoxy of corporate power, neoliberal economics, and military imperialism. But until that happens, the future sequence of events will unfold like a careworn roadmap of familiar territory.
Scapegoats and Complicit Dems
The volume will rise among the punditry. The calls will grow shrill in the agitprop rags of the intelligentsia. The heckling will grow harsher in the social media ghetto. And, as we’re already seeing, the collective boombox of the media will hound us into electing Hillary to spare the nation the unimaginable nightmare of The Donald. And we know who will be…