The gangs, and "superpredators" are the oligarchs, and their minions, who preserve the

status quo establishment at all cost. There would be little or none of the the type of gang violence you speak of if people had equal opportunity social and economic justice. Oppressed peoples have always banded together to protect themselves from the oppression of oligarchs and royalty.

Meet the Great American Superpredators:

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The KKK: Celebrating 150 yrs of Gang Violence.




Stop these bloodsucking superpredator oligarchs. Please. Vote for Bernie

I'll be your huckleberry.

Yes, if he was running against Hillary Clinton. Republicans are getting record turnouts

in the primaries so far.

The young voters who Bernie has brought into the Democratic party are motivated to participate in the process because Bernie reflects their values and knows what he has to do to give them the springboard opportunities they need for a saner and more rewarding future.

If Hillary gets the nomination, many of these young voters will throw up their hands in disgust and stay home for the GE, or vote third party, or leave simply not cast a vote for a presidential candidate.

Many longtime Dems and left independents have been alienated beyond the tipping point of being able to tolerate holding their noses and voting for the lesser of two evils. They will no longer allow themselves to be held hostage in a two party system where oligarchs control both parties and use them for their own profit and power accumulation purposes. Many longtime Dems will most likely vote third party or not cast a vote for a presidential candidate.

So here we are, standing at the crossroad.

Capitalist oligarchs believe that no action is immoral, or unethical, when done in the name

of corporate profit. They will go to war, using nothing but lies and deceit for justification, and kill and maim hundreds of thousands of innocent people, in order to secure, and/or expand, their interests. For them, democracy is something that must be prevented at any cost.

Hillary will quickly end racism and sexism overnight by maintaining

the status quo oligarch establishment. Her Brand is "Change Without Change".

Changing by staying the same is the only way to end racism and sexism. We have absolutely no reason to break up these big banks that are impoverishing us, destroying democracy, and crushing our hopes and dreams, if doing so will not end racism and sexism. It is impossible to promote economic justice and social justice at the same time. Becuz, uh, well, um, the Hillary campaign says so. I think I saw it on TV, so it's gotta be true.

How can you people not understand this?

Bernie has 10 times more experience in dealing with foreign affairs than Obama

and Bill Clinton combined when they began their campaigns. Fail.

It seems that the author is out of touch with everyday people. We know who Bernie Sanders is. He was speaking to us, in Town Hall/Fireside Chat type format on the "Brunch With Bernie" segment of Thom Hartmann's radio, and later his TV show, almost every week, for many years. Bernie was telling us all about the workings of government, and his ideas for change, on this show. Many Bernie supporters know more about Bernie than than they do about all the rest of Congress and President Obama combined. Because he actually took the time to speak to us on an equal level every week for many years.

Don't believe me? Here ya go:

https://www.freespeech.org/collection/brunch-bernie

The author is apparently a propagandist who doesn't really know jack shit about Bernie Sanders. The credibility of the OP essay is now at less than zero.

"But if this establishment is the enemy, then on whose side is he on?"

Duh.

He's on our side, and we are the 99%.

One primary issue all racial minorities in the US have to deal with every day

is existing and surviving in a long established white supremacist oligarchy, which is institutionalized in the system as well as the general cultural consciousness. How some individuals and general majorities of various minorities approach improving their unique situations may be radically different than others.

Wall St. will try to do something similar to us if Bernie is elected.

Now that we have seen the Venezuelan model for how they destroy democracies through planned economic deprivation and external economic and media manipulation, etc., we need to figure out how to quickly strip them of their power to commit acts of financial terrorism against the US and all peoples of the world of the world who wish to establish democratic governments for themselves that are free from manipulation and control of greedy, malicious oligarchs.

Subcomandante Marcos, Zapatista brother, wrote this in the mountains of south Mexico a few decades ago:

Alert socks would be a useful tool for what are, generally,

any inherently subjective, dishonest individuals/groups of posters.

FDR traditional Dems at DU don't use alert socks, won't alert for malevolent purposes, and are collectively far more objective in their evaluations of posts in the capacity of juror than the more conservative groups of posters.

Posters from generally subjective, inherently dishonest group(s) can, and do, frequently, use the jury system as a weapon, because they are permitted to alert at will, and they will almost universally automatically vote to hide even the most innocuous alerted on post that is made by a traditional Democrat.

It's somewhat like the integrity gap between traditional FDR Dems and Republicans. The farther to the right of the political spectrum that a juror is, the more likely that juror is to use the jury system as a weapon.

The 7 - 0 rule is relatively ineffective in protecting traditional Dems here because of this integrity gap. There's almost always one subjective member on a jury from an inherently dishonest group. Therefore, there's no 7 - 0 result, and subsequently, the alert stalkers are allowed to continue to alert stalk traditional FDR Dems with impunity.

An added bonus for the dishonest group is that each time they hide a traditional Democrat's post, they significantly lower the traditional Dems odds of being selected for a jury. Each hide a poster gets lessens their chances of being selected for the jury, effectively stacking future juries on the side of the dishonest group.

The system works!


***An effective, and simple, solution to this problem would be to allow each individual member 4, or maybe 6, alerts per year. Having been a member of DU for almost 13 years, I believe that this should be acceptable to any reasonable DU member who would never consider using the DU jury system as a weapon for punishing and/or silencing, without reasonable cause, those who disagree with her/him.

Just FYI, a prolific poster's alert sockpuppet was exposed for trying to circumvent the alert system a few years ago. The sockpuppet was tombstoned, but the poster was not tombstoned, or suspended. No telling how many socks are out there.

The effects of the long term, blanket RW MSM propaganda brainwashing

program is what we are seeing here.

Hundreds of RW AM radio hate jockeys, and the RW monopolization of televised and print "news" media, were inflicted upon the people of this country, for a generation. "Conservative" almost became institutionalized as synonymous with "good", and liberal almost became synonymous with "bad".

Fortunately, progressive "media crusaders" on the internet saw what was happening, and provided an outlet for truth and fact to counteract the decades long RW media blitz, and today we have a generation known as "millennials" who were not lobotomized to any significant degree by the massive long term RW MSM propaganda campaign.

Those of us of other generations who saw through the propaganda, and who were not affected by the RW media poison, are now united with millennials in an effort to help take back our country and our government from the oligarchs, and their conservative minions, by electing Bernie and other traditional Democrats to office.

President Obama nailed it perfectly when he wrote that Reagan was a "transformational" President. Midway through the Reagan presidency, conservatives calling themselves the "DLC", or Democratic Leadership Party, infiltrated and co-opted the Democratic party, which resulted in the conservative brainwashed mess of a party that we find ourselves dealing with right now. Today, the DLC is known as Third Way, or New "Democrats". These New "Democrats" serve and promote the interests of oligarchs and their massive private transnational commercial enterprises over the interests of human beings and the environment.

It is up to us to further reverse this destructive national transformation to conservatism by engaging in a sustained, massive united progressive push to prevent republican and Third Way conservatives from being elected to office, by electing traditional Democrats who understand that the interests of human beings, and our environment, are the most important issues in the world.

Electing Bernie is a primary step in this transformation of the US into a kinder, saner, better nation.