Post -2016 election analysis/ future projection

DEMOCRATS FOR MAJORITY RULE Sent from my iPhone On Feb 16, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Charles Brown wrote: From: Charles Brown Date: December 22, 2016 at 9:09:54 PM EST Most Bernie supporters were not Left intellectuals , especially among young people . Most were not against Clinton as a neo-liberal or oligarch or Establishment Democrat ( well maybe some ; smile). They just liked Bernie's socialism , frankly, ! at least his vigorous anti-Wall Street stance . Rachel , a 30 year old friend of mine from Bert's, said she thought Clinton should have picked Bernie for VP. Maybe that was Clinton's main error. Anyway , Rachel evidently supported Bernie , but was not hostile to Clinton. Bernie won the Michigan primary because of a new mass of progressive , but not ultra-left, voters, not activists ; especially in 85% Black majority Detroit. Rachel is pretty much apolitical most of the time , not a leftie. She's a proletarian. This is a political silver lining in this political weather of storm trooper -clouds . Our task is to nurture this new mass political vanguard. I would like to found a Caucus for a militant Constitutionalist Democratic Party for majority rule. This is needed because at least since Bush and the Republican majority on the Supreme Court stole the electoral count with a minority of national popular vote the Republicans openly and aggressively , extra constitutionally arrogate minority rule, racist minority rule. It's a large minority , but they know they are stealing control for minorities over majorities against the very fundamental definition of democracy , majority rule; majority of the whole People. This violates popular sovereignty and all power deriving from The People, We , the People , as a whole the most fundamental principle of US democracy . Sometimes it's the whole people of a state as in the Michigan referendum on the Emergency Financial Dictator Law. The People repealed the law and the Republican governor and legislature ignored the Will of We, the People, who are the highest authority in US democracy. I was a Bernie voter, but I spoke in support of both Clinton and Sanders. I had been supporting Clinton from before Sanders got in the race. I did not criticize either one . I canvassed for Clinton for six weeks , and phone banked for her. All criticisms of Clinton as the _cause_ of her loss boil down to that she was not perfect , thus running afoul of the fundamental logical principle that NOBODY is perfect. She was not a bad candidate because she won the majority of the popular vote. There was nothing she could have done differently during the campaign to appeal to that problematic voter Midwest economic victim. She rejected TPP ! Took up all of Bernie's main issues such that he loves the Democratic platform. Most of them are lying that Trump was more trustworthy on economics and jobs . They pretend that Obama has done nothing for them when he saved their a----. Including steel workers , whose jobs depend on auto companies buying lots of steel. Obama won enough of the rural vote to win two national electoral college majorities. The Democratic Party platform has Bernie's fingerprints all over it. We must stay the Democratic Party platform , Obama-led course; it has essential appeal for the only rural proletarians who are open minded. Comey's slanderous innuendo fake news in the middle of voting was the main cause of Clinton's loss out of all factors ; it was the culmination 30 years of Republican and monopoly media fake news smears of Clinton. In other words , the proximate cause of the Democrats's loss was not an error by the Democratic Party. She still won the popular vote , so the Democrats shouldn't change from twice successful Obamaism or their platform that Bernie loves. Demographic trends still favor Democrats. Party must organize mass youth voting machine computer scientist security guards; a youth army who can check voting machines. The majority of the working class voted for Clinton. Working class is those who do not employ anyone else to make a major part of their revenue; wage -laborers. We r the 99%!We r the 99%! More people like that voted for Clinton than Trump. Once Clinton won the nomination , all of the left should have followed Bernie's lead , and campaigned , canvassed , phone banked , door knocked for Clinton. I voted for Bernie in Michigan's primary , which with hindsight , I criticize myself for , because the momentum of Bernie's vigorous attacks on Clinton in the primaries, was not done taking account of its effect in the general if Bernie did not win the nomination. I remember criticizing Bernie for going too hard for too long. And once Clinton won I vigorously supported her , canvassed for six weeks in Macomb County, Reagan Democrat country central (which actually we weren't changing any votes; we should have been placed in Detroit by Planned Parenthood; not Clinton campaign ); phone banked . Part of Obama's legacy is no war on Iran , and reducing foot soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan from 180,000 to 12,000. He earned that Nobel Peace Prize. Obamacare will be his legacy , too, because even if the Republicans repeal it they will beget a backlash from those millions who lose it . Furthermore, repealing it will cause a crash in the insurance industry, which will trigger a larger recession. This recession will further hurt the Republicans; that big hit on the Republicans will be part of Obama's legacy. Thereby , Obamacare will remain part of his legacy . The Republicans know this , and may not repeal Obamacare because of that. Another part of Obama's legacy will be all the cures for dread diseases discovered because he lifted Bush's ban on stem cell rea search. This desperate Trump election is a very big political crisis for the bourgeoisie ; it will beget a 9.0 Economic Crisis, The Big One. Mothers grab yo children. Chauncey says : "David Over 90% of Black women voted for Clinton as did a little over 80% of Black men voted for her as well. "A lot" of African Americans did not do some sort of protest vote." Black people are the current political vanguard section of the US working class; especially Black women. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/black-women--hillary-clintons-most-reliable-voting-bloc--look-beyond-defeat/2016/11/12/86d9182a-a845-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html?client=safari You can look at the exit polls themselves, too: http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/national/president https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/black-women--hillary-clintons-most-reliable-voting-bloc--look-beyond-defeat/2016/11/12/86d9182a-a845-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html?client=safari Black females are the demographic with the highest percentage vote for Clinton. "Ain't I a woman. " -Sojouner Truth Over 8 million voters in CA voted for Hillary. She actually outperformed President Obama this year in terms of percentage gain over the GOP opponent. We have a state with one of the higher union membership. 75% of the electorate here voted, which is astounding. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/20/why-californias-voters-were-so-anti-trump-that-some-republicans-dont-want-to-include-them-in-2016-totals/?utm_term=.146c33fe62f7 Sam says : "Look at the breakdown of the vote, and bear in mind that the working class includes more than white workers; huge majorities of workers of color supported Hillary, and along with their white brothers and sisters they demonstrated good working class and democratic sense. As for the white workers who supported Trump, I believe that racism, misogyny, and anti-immigrant feeling figured into their voting calculus to one degree or another. To suggest otherwise is dangerous in my view. And those who do in the name of defending the working class are helping no one." There were several causes, as in many legal torts; "but for " causes . The 30 year Republican media smear culminating in Benghazhi, emails fake scandal , culminating in Comey's slanderous innuendo was probably the proximate cause complex. These made it close enough that the ultra-left , Bernie energized movement ( "political revolution" against the DNC ! Bernie was a guest in the DP, having vigorously always insisted that he was not a Democrat; comes in trying to do a bum rush takeover of the party apparatus ) may have been a but for cause, a necessary condition . Trump was able to demagogically echo Bernie's attacks on her on TPP ; pretending to be against TPP. Trump might not have been as effective as he was on this if Bernie had not been shouting about the issue up so much in the primary . Too vigorously attacking all along. Not taking account that he was attracting support from ultra-leftists that he wouldn't be able to control. Allowing his followers to attack the DNC as if it was the way ultra-left's slander it. Fundamentally disrespecting the Obama Democratic Party: ultra-left racist criticism of Obama, racist because it doesn't take account of how powerful was the white supremacist wall against Obama; typical white people's RACISMBLINDNESS. NAFTA was a minor factor in Midwest job loss. Plants were running away from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan , Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois ten years before NAFTA, especially steel plants. Obama , the Democrat , saved the auto ( and therefore steel) industry from economic Armageddon by the Republicans. Digital tech revolution destroyed more jobs than NAFTA. Clinton didn't do NAFTA, her husband did. Clinton rejected TPP. Midwest Trump supporters are , white supremacist , fake victims of Democrats. By voting for Trump , they are victimizers of themselves and the Rest of their class. Suicidal class traitors. ... ignoring the elephant in the room that blocked him at every turn,and evidently are one of these people who doesn't have high school level civics knowledge of the what a President can and can't do with a Congress that won't support him and then vigorously and unconstitutionally opposed him as on the last Supreme Court appointment. What a philistine. Someone political dullard had said: "Yeah, and I could give you a long list of less-than accomplishments. The most inspiring day for me in my life was the first Obama inaugeration though I already knew the gig was up with the appointments of Geithner and Summers. Still all those folks on the mall (and around the country) with "hope" was pretty damn impressive Alas......much of it was squandered. I guess will just have to agree to disagree and let history judge." "http://samwebb.org/rural-america-turning-foe-to-friend/ The Recasting of Rural America DECEMBER 16, 2016 In election post mortems, I have been a little suspicious of commentary that gives too large a role to globalization in accounting for what happened on election day. It has a role for sure, but it can be easily exaggerated. And to the degree that it obscures or hides the role of political and cultural factors, it’s more hindrance than help. Take the overperformance of Trump in rural and small town America. Globalization, if we understand it to mean corporate disinvestment from domestic locations in favor of investment in far flung regions and countries of the world, sheds little light on why Trump did so well in these communities. In fact, if pursued, it ends up in an analytical dead end. For it wasn’t the flight of capital from huge swathes of rural and small town America across the Midwest and Plains states that set the stage for Trump’s showing among voters in these communities. It was, actually, the opposite – the inward and massive flow of giant agricultural and commercial capital into every nook and cranny of rural America over the past four decades that did. As General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were fleeing Detroit, Flint, and other auto centers in the last decades of the 20th century and relocating south of the border and elsewhere, corporate giants like Cargill, Monsanto, Du Pont, Archer Daniels Midland, International Harvester, Tyson Foods, WalMart, McDonald’s, Target, and CitiBank were descending on rural communities with the destructiveness of swarms of locusts. In this descent, small producers on the land and in the towns were ousted, long-standing social networks were dissolved, new technologies replaced living labor, familiar landmarks disappeared, and people were atomized. Furthermore, the family farms and small businesses left standing after this convulsive whirlwind found themselves operating in the shadows and under the thumb of the new corporate gunslingers who quickly came to dominate every phase of the production and distribution process and much more. If, to paraphrase the famous lines of the Communist Manifesto, all that was solid didn’t melt into air, it is also fair to say that no more than a thread remained of a way of life that earlier seemed timeless and eternal. http://samwebb.org/rural-america-turning-foe-to-friend/ Obama won enough of the rural vote to win two national electoral college majorities. The Democratic Party platform has Bernie's fingerprints all over it. We must stay the Democratic Party platform , Obama-led course; it has essential appeal for the only rural proletarians who are open minded. Sent from my iPhone