This Primary Is A Complete Reflection Of What Our Society Has Become

You could take a mirror and hold it up to what our society has become and the injustices its people have suffered and it would not show a clearer image than what this primary election is showing us.

On one hand, you have the Corporate Interests... the wealthy executives and investors who have figured out how to tap into the vast wealth of this country and fill their massive cups to overflowing. After decades of trickle-down economics, rolling back decades of reform and oversight on Wall Street and the banks, the middle class was decimated. And those seeking to climb out of the poor and working class by seeking an education have been saddled with decades of student loan debt in nearly a modern form of indentured servitude. As schools rake in billions of tax-payer money, they are building mega sports complex to feed professional sports while doling out scholarships to the wealthy and talented and providing a steady stream of technically trained, indentured workers for big business who have no choice but to participate in the system in their appropriated place.

On another front, Republicans have been steadily controlling the population as directed by their wealthy sponsors. Using religion to subvert science, going so far as to re-write historical textbooks and treat creationism as an equal theory to science. Meanwhile, they create an image that our Military is to be held in complete and utter reverence despite war crimes and atrocities committed in Iraq and even closer to home at Guantanamo bay. No one can criticize the Military and not have their political career destroyed. And while they hold the Military in the highest reverence, and go so far as to leverage the use of it's soldiers as political props, they cut funding in the VA to the point where it becomes scandalous and use that as an example of "See, Government Doesn't Work!". And they didn't stop with simply using the Military. Let's also militarize the state and local police with military grade equipment so not only do they look like an occupying force in this country, that's exactly what they are. Remember Katrina when the police setup blockades to prevent African Americans from entering white neighborhoods when they were simply residents trying to evacuate flooded areas? Yeah, and the AP reported white people carrying items from a grocery store as survivors and black folks as looters. All of this control on top of regressive economic policies means one thing: be ready for the revolt.

And here we are, at the precipice of being able to undo so much backward policy that has put us on a path of strictly caste society, a plutocracy. We are nearly there folks. We are nearly a plutocracy now, and some would argue that yes we are already. As such, its citizens have a choice: remain in your administered role as part of that system or rise up and say everyone has a right to succeed. It may be too late, as the wealthy have been successful in getting their last lynch pin to lock us all up: Citizens United. With this terrible decision by the Supreme Court to say that Money equates to Free Speech, that means money matters in politics, more now than ever. With no restriction, the wealthy are now controlling every politician with their money, including most of the members of the Democratic Party.

To me, Hillary could have been a great candidate but she has embraced the decision by the Supreme Court decision on Citizens United and is using corporate and the money of the 1% just so she can be the President. Sure she says she is against the decision, but I have little faith that she intends to undo this given how much money she's taken personally from Wall Street and how much the 1% are contributing to her campaign. To me, she now represents the interest of the Wealthy, even if she says she's against it. At a minimum, she has accepted her role in the plutocratic society we now live in and she's willing to live by the rules dictated by the wealthy. Even worse, she's hawkish, contributing to the expansion of as well as the abuses of the Military Industrial Complex, while exhibiting support for the control on the members of society via the militarization of the police forces while turning a blind eye to the social injustices that have been happening (long before she started running for President this second time). Her stance on the death penalty affirms this.

Likewise, Trump represents the control of the population through culture. Never being a religious man, nor a conservative, he's building on the use of religion and mis-information to control his supporters. Banning muslims, building walls, he's using both religion and race to divide the population up and use the hatred to get what he wants. And he holds that control with the most basic methods of bullying and intimidation to tear down is opponents. This rude, base and vile feelings he's tapping into are the same ones the Republicans have been using for several decades now, Trump has just taken over and gone further than any other Republican has dared. And it's working.

Bernie, to me, represents our last best hope of actually standing a chance at stopping all this madness. Getting millions of people to activate and rise up against the interest of the very few but very powerful, he is actually doing it. Even today, the momentum of this awakening of the American People is still building. We are rising up, against the powerful, against the elite. And most who do, are contributing or working to make it happen. The question is, are enough people hearing it in time? Will there be enough voices to join the revolution in order to reverse the control put on its people? Or with Citizens United, are we too late? Will the wealthy put down the revolution with mis-information and by dividing us all into our own interests? I know one thing: It's not just up to Bernie. It's up to each and every one of us.