Purge!

Well, the Senate wasted no time in getting their bullshit bill passed.  Now it goes back to the House for a final vote on the reconciliation, then to Trump for his signature.  If Trump signs it, which he is likely to do, there's only one thing left to do. 

We MUST stop arguing personality politics, put up a slate of real progressives, vote them into office next year.  It has to be real progressives, because corporate Democrats won't do it.  They're too beholden to Wall Street and big money interests to do what's right for the country and We the People.

Proofs of that are too numerous to go into, but I'll give a few examples:

Corporate Democratic leaders have come out against re-importation of prescription drugs from Canada at lower prices.
 
They've come out against universal health care, knowing that the ACA is both insufficient to the needs of the people, and that it's a giveaway to the insurance industry, having been largely written by that industry's lobbyists.

They've come out against breaking up the "too big to fail" big banks and "too big to jail" bankers and stockbrokers who caused the Great Recession of 2008.

Corporate Democrats have refused to stand with the fight for 15 to increase the minimum wage to a living wage.

President Obama, as a candidate, promised to protect whistle blowers.  But while in office, he prosecuted more of them than ANY OTHER President before him. 

After Candidate Obama promised to bring our soldiers home from Iraq and Afghanistan, but after doing so to a great extent, he sent them back to fight again in those places and seven more countries.  And some of those soldiers are PROTECTING the Afghan poppy fields while heroin usage here in America is on the increase once again.

Twice, he tried to open the Arctic preserves to drilling for oil, after promising not to do so.  He did nothing to fix our crumbling infrastructure, and made a single half-hearted attempt to bring jobs back from overseas.

And Tom Perez, after beginning a unity reform tour with Bernie Sanders, proceded to purge the Democratic National Committee leadership of real progressives.

So what are corporate Democrats going to do for We the People?  Not a damn thing, based on their records.

Why does this happen?  Why do they betray us, their constituents? 

There's a saying: Follow the money.  Every one of them has recieved big donations from corporate America. 

Cory booker got a big one from Big Pharma before he voted against importing Canadian drugs, the same drugs from the same pharma companies that make them and that cost a lot more than they do in Canada.  Every one of those corporate Democrats gets donations from the corporations that benefit from their betrayal of the people of this nation.  Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Big Oil, and so on. 
Don't believe me; but don't believe them either. Break out of your confirmation bias.  Look it up for yourself, and learn the truth. 

What it comes down to is this: If you keep trying to silence progressives, you're digging the grave of your party, and of this country as a semi-functioning Democratic Republic.

It's time... No, it's well past time, to purge the Democratic Party, all of our political institutions, of corporatists who are robbing the nation blind and destroying our country.  It's OUR country, dammit, NOT the corporations!

Don Rice Jr.
© December 21, 2017