Perez and DNC: Resign So Democrats Can Win

If you are one of the people who is also concerned about whether or not Bernie Sanders is electable, it is time for you to try to figure out how your favorite candidate can win in a third-party run. With Bernie Sanders' caucus win in Nevada, it is time for Tom Perez to resign, and anyone who cannot get behind the candidate with the most support should go with him. 

For years, those of us who have supported the progressive wing of the Democratic party have been told that we weren't needed or wanted. We were told that the idea is party unity by people who have been anything but unifying in their behaviors or with their rhetoric. As we have watched the party of the people evolve into the party of special interests marketing the image of liberalism, we have been told that the party is opposed to Republicans, but making changes is not necessarily the best way to go about improving things. 

That's marketing lingo.

We have had it pushed on us that we must always work across the aisle for compromise. It has been done so much that "normal" for the establishment these days is actually to the right of the policies of '60s Republicans. Why wouldn't it be? Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren are former Republicans. Biden comes from the days when a northern Democrat had to settle for redlining, but he still admired those segregationists who broke off as Dixiecrats.

The party is so blatantly aligned more with the Republican party than it is with its own progressive wing that we are seeing Obama implicitly endorse Michael Bloomberg while publicly claiming he hasn't decided. While this may all fit politically, does Obama really think that we don't see him standing with the former Republican mayor who defended racist policies with racist statements? 

That one hurts a bit. I really like Barack Obama as a person, and especially so as a measure of what husbands and fathers should strive to be. However, if he isn't going to speak up about implicitly supporting someone who had cops stop and frisk people who look like him, we will have to speak up against Obama.

Why is Obama not explaining himself? It's a marketing ploy with built-in plausible deniability. I can't say for certain, but he certainly hasn't eliminated that possibility that seems more likely as time drags on.

Tom Perez has tried really hard to fend off the political revolution that Bernie Sanders started. The Bernie Sanders movement has drawn in young people from all backgrounds to take over what the older generations failed to give them: a fair shot for a normal life. Perez needs to lead the entire DNC in resigning. 

What the people who vote for Democrats really want is to defeat Donald Trump in November. They fall for the marketing because they want to believe the images like it is time for someone other than an old white man to be president, which is the result of identity marketing that I also wrote about.

If integrity matters, the progressive candidates have more of that. If honesty matters, the progressive candidates offer more of that. If consistency between words and actions matter, the progressive candidates excel over the establishment candidates.

Here is how it works for you individually if you support Tom Perez and the DNC: leave with them.

For every person who actually leaves, the party will likely gain one hundred votes. Every person who stays to support Bernie Sanders and the progressive wing of the party will get the benefit of telling the truth rather than peddling marketing campaigns based on identity imagery. Instead of rubbing elbows with people who cannot answer simple questions without being briefed and with whom you must agree or else there is no reason for you both to be there, the interactions will be with young people whose existences depend on sweeping social changes and who talk about it. 

We have heard that a movement cannot be built from the top down, but that doesn't apply to the progressive wing. If anything, the trend is so far in favor of the young and progressive that 2020 is truly the last election the establishment can screw up, and that is all they can do with it at this point. 

Not only are there progressive candidates poised to beat some of the most regressive Republicans, but there are also some really strong candidates who are running against Democratic incumbents. Even Nancy Pelosi seems a bit more vulnerable against her opponent Shahid Buttar if young people vote together as a progressive bloc. 

Why does it have to be Bernie? If there is one major reason it must be, that Major is Tulsi Gabbard. Is the Congressperson from Hawaii not electable? If she is not, does any of it have to do with things you heard that make you wonder if she really means what she says? 

If you wonder that about Tulsi Gabbard, you have fallen for a marketing campaign over which Hillary Clinton is being sued for defamation. Her case is proven if people believe she is unelectable because of things people have heard, and not because of things Gabbard has said or done. 

Listen to her, and you will get a different feeling about her if you think she is untrustworthy. Between Tulsi Gabbard and Hillary Clinton, the one that is least genuine is Hillary Clinton. She is still pissed off at Tulsi Gabbard for having the moral courage to stand up for what was right over what would have been more personally profitable.

And that is the point. And that is the reason that Tom Perez and the entire DNC need to resign. It is no longer about their money. It is about our votes.

• If the party is dedicated to defeating Donald Trump, it must put forth its most popular candidate. Otherwise, defeating Donald Trump is an image in a marketing campaign. 
• If the party believes that the person with the most votes should win elections, then it must put forth the candidate with the most votes. Otherwise, the person with the most votes should win is just a marketing slogan. 
• If the party honestly believes that money and politics should not mix, then it must acknowledge that its most successful candidate does not accept corporate or special interest money. Otherwise, that is rhetoric.
• If the party really wants to put forth a woman to be president, then it should not have undermined the campaign of its fiercest warrior, including the men. Otherwise, that is just identity marketing.

I am hoping that the landslide victory in Nevada results in Bernie Sanders being bold enough to name Tulsi Gabbard as his running mate, with the two of them campaigning for progressive ideals and the torch ready to pass on to her as his chosen successor. She has had his back for years, and I think they both anticipated how important she would ultimately be in the progressive movement. 

I do not speak for Tulsi Gabbard, of course, but, to me, it seems logical since her campaign is clearly damaged from DNC tactics. It also becomes more difficult when her task now would be to overtake a person with a huge plurality of voters in one state and the most votes overall, and who she endorsed four years ago. It is no longer about her honor. She has maintained that beautifully. It is now about the stated objective: beating Donald Trump in November. 

The void in the DNC can be filled with available progressive favorites like Andrew Yang, Zephyr Teachout, and Tim Canova so the messages are clear to those who are trying to hang on to those paid speaking engagements and lobbyist jobs in retirement. Their times are up. The gigs are over. 2020 is being handled differently.

It would also send the message that the people in the party have chosen to side with the tens of thousands of people who show up at every event for Bernie Sanders and will risk the few thousand that show up to the best attended events of all the others put together. If it isn't clear that Bernie Sanders is the favorite of the people to anyone who proposed voting blue no matter who, it is time for them to either change their bumper stickers or their candidate. Mathematically, it works for them either way.

Here's the other mathematic fact: the DNC has been trying to keep Bernie Sanders under 50%, and it appears to have failed to stop an inevitable trajectory. If all the other candidates in the nomination barely match Sanders' vote total, the majority, by election standards, has spoken. 

The new DNC would be able to coordinate whatever it believes to be the best strategy to accomplish the primary duty we agreed upon: defeating Donald Trump in November. If that is not the prime objective, we should drop the marketing talk with the imagery of "electable." 

Marketing is scientific mind manipulation. 

The best way to determine who is the most electable is to count the votes. 

Everything else is marketing.