It's a Movement!
eww.
Seems like no one is doing, or is inclined to do, much “healing”—racial or otherwise—in the party of the Big D. Since the Obama Messiah disintegrated into the Obama Mess, there is a substantial reason at hand superdelegates could cite for turning away from the pledged delegate vote. So things are getting a little weird out there....
Apparently, Hillary is now a Christian NAZI?!? Well, according to The Nation...
there is, and has always been, a Plan B.
I thought about this the other night over dinner in a global metropolis not very far from your own with the widow and the sister of my late political mentor, Abbie Hoffman, ...
For us rabble-rousers out here that don’t consider any American political party to be “ours,” that scenario would put Plan B into play. We have no illusions that it has yet been surrendered or that we have yet taken it: Oh, we’d still go to Denver, not to enter the convention hall, but to reduce it to symbolic rubble from the outside.
Call it Plan Jericho: Like Joshua of the Old Testament and his troops who circled the halls of the city, marched around it silently for six days, on the seventh day marched around it seven times more and then, on cue, sounded a horn to end the silence and shout all at once, toppled the walls, entered the city, and “killed” (the Bible says so literally, but this time it will be politically, not mortally) every man, woman and superdelegate – including any imposter they might “nominate” by imposition – that did not participate in the certain walk-out protest that will occur under their scenario and instead chooses to remain inside the hall.
...won’t be the chaotic street protest and battle with the cops that occurred in ’68 ... Gandhian in its adherence to discipline and nonviolence, and more massive than anything maybe ever seen in the United States’ long history of social movements. If the party leaders choose to destroy democracy by denying the fair-and-square winner the nomination, democracy will then be duty bound to destroy the party.
...My eyes brighten at the opportunity, ...
This electoral campaign has created what we authentic radicals call the “objective conditions” for something even greater and more historic than a mere presidential election. ...
[italics mine—e-C]
or: “If the game isn’t going my way, I feel ‘duty bound’ to destroy the playground.” I guess this is what comes of not keeping score in t-ball.
I’ll leave you with what is becoming my favorite quote of late:
A deep aversion to boredom and a consequent, indiscriminate love for novelty among the intellectual classes translated into a routinized iconoclasm and a thoroughgoing contempt for democracy, traditional morality, the masses, and the bourgeoisie, and a love for “action, action, action!” that still plagues the left today. (How much of the practiced radicalism of the contemporary left is driven by the childish pranksterism they call being subversive?)
--Jonah Goldberg
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