The Growing Frustration (and panic) of the 1%
Well, it was a tightly planned, top-down campaign. All the key people were in place, all the deals prearranged. All the lessons from last election's failure were learned, and big chunks of ugly cement (political) barriers erected, to drive the cattle to their inevitable conclusion: coronation of the queen.
There's only one thing that the Hillites and the political operatives forgot: America is not a monarchy. It is a representative democracy. And Americans are not cattle; they are getting sick and tired of being treated like cattle by the likes of Hillary and her supporters, masters and bankers.
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Some of the 1% were wary from the start of Bernie's campaign. They surveyed the entire field of potential candidates, and quickly came to the conclusion that their scheme of world domination was about to explode in many directions from multiple causes, and losing control of the White House would be the last straw. But they had no suitable figurehead in the pipeline. Their last GOP quarterback "W" had done everything they asked, and as a result, both the economy, the local political scene, and the global situation were destroyed. They hadn't reckoned on Third World blowback or the inability of things to repair themselves without institutional support.
Then they tried the Manchurian Candidate ploy, with Penny Pritzker supplying the figurehead: Barack Obama. Things when from horrible to nearly as bad. The 1% split between the greedy and the fanatical, and started duking it out.
The less-alert, less-watchful portion of the 1% indulged themselves with "vanity" candidates and religious overthrow. But now, even they are beginning to see the writing on the wall. I am waiting for them to coalesce around the best of the worst on the GOP side. I don't think they can trust Hillary enough to come over to her side, but I do think that the grassroots GOP will come over to Bernie, for lack of an alternative amongst the GOP. After all, why settle for a phony revolutionary, when you can get a real one?
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Lucy in Charles Schulz's Peanuts might proclaim:
"Nobody should be kept from being a queen if she wants to be one. It's undemocratic!"
But Hillary will never be Queen of America. The minute she was crowned, America would cease to exist, probably forever. Hillary plays for keeps, and so do her bankers.
We have our knight and protector of the poor, doing battle with evil, injustice, and power-madness. Let us be worthy of him.