All of the drama surrounding Clinton and the DNC boils down to one and only one thing:

Labor and the middle class.

In the camp for Clinton? Fuck the poors!

Pining for Perez? Fuck the poors!

Thought Obama was the shit? Fuck the poors!

Republican? "Blame yourself!" and! Fuck the poors!

We have made corporations people. Now, they aren't, instead legal constructs that have no agency, but through us people. They are proxies for guess what?

People who don't give a FUCK about THE POORS!

Some corporations are run by people who do care, and that's nice. Purely optional though! It's completely legal to FUCK THE POORS!

Greed is good! FUCK THE POORS!

Economic Recovery? Disagree, FUCK YOU ARE POOR!

Meritocracy? FUCK THE POORS HARDER!

Fight for 15? FUCK THE POORS!

Notice a trend here? Yeah, me too.

Now, when you are faced with asses and clowns all stuck on "policy", "lesser evils", "justice", I suggest you rub their faces in this.

ie: But Clinton was clearly the better choice!

Really? For whom? Dems have lost their asses to the tune of just over 1000 seats in 6 years. Where have they lost them? Where the poors are! Overwhelmingly so.

Since Bill Clinton, Democrats have not performed for labor and the middle class. The number of people in real trouble, in danger of becoming GASP! The number of POOR are rising every day. People fucked on health care expenses? People hosed big after seeing their job lost or replaced only to find the next one pays half?

How is that union membership growth drive? Let's look at wages! Flat? Sure! FUCK THE POORS, they can work harder, or it's somehow their fault for not being so fucking awesome as to be worth a living wage for them and their families.

Obama pushed for FUCK THE POORS TPP, he and corporate Democrats actually put Social Security on the chopping block, FUCK THE OLD POORS TOO. And of course, they shit on the kids. Didn't think that all the way through did they? Now who is the future? Paybacks are a bitch!

Fight for 15 is just way too much, BECAUSE FUCK THE POORS, so let's just do 12 and call it a win, k?

Have your parents living with you now? You living with your parents to make ends meet? How about having three roomies in a two room place? FUCK THE POORS WHO DESERVE IT?

Are you young? How come you aren't working more and more? Why aren't you buying cars? How come you can't be more like those spiffy startup guys and just make shit up for millions? Why don't you just go away?

Somehow, we've gone from a nation who valued it's people to FUCK THE POORS!

We put them in prison, and that's not enough, so we do it for profit, because you know WHY NOT FUCK THE POORS HARDER? THEY ARE POOR! FUCK 'EM! We extort their families, and when or if they get out, we saddle them with fees and onerous requirements designed to screw them and everyone they ever knew to the max almost for sure to end up right back in the jail where they can work for pennies!

We get told how those with the most need more. Just a little more every year. It's not much. It's more than THOSE FUCKING POORS CAN DO, right?

We've gone from a caring, generous nation to one where it's perfectly OK to get yours, fuck everyone else hard. Why? Because if you don't somehow get yours, that means you were never worth jack shit and everyone knows it, so FUCK YOU DESERVE TO BE POOR! Why? BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO DON'T FUCK THE POORS ARE POOR! That's why.

We never put poor people on TV. We never really talk about poor people and all our metrics hide the poor people as much as we can. We call "poverty" being unable to eat basically. If you can eat, SHUT THE FUCK UP, it's a good day for you. POORS ARE WORTHLESS. POORS COST US MONEY.

Why can't we do single payer health care? You know, save ourselves billions, stimulate the economy, take care of our own, prosper?

Insurers need profit more than THOSE FUCKING POORS NEED TO LIVE!

Why can't we pay for schools? Those of us who are worth it can just buy good school. LET THE POORS FEND FOR THEMSELVES!

And on it goes.

Now, the gall?

These broken people, twisted, scared shitless THEY MIGHT BECOME A POOR or maybe be associated with, or actually get caught being kind to ONE OF THOSE SCUM, are all about everything that just doesn't matter.

HUMANS CAN GO TO MARS! (and you bet your ass that means LEAVE THOSE FUCKING POORS ON EARTH too) SOFTWARE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, but it can't feed a family.

Climate change, the fucking of the planet? Now those of us with the most won't give a shit. They can stake out some nice places, pay the smarter people to learn where the best opportunities are, and then FUCK THE POORS! THEY CAN GET US MORE OIL, THEN DIE.

About 20 percent of us are doing pretty well and do not worry about money so much.

Another 20 percent are doing OK, but need to be super careful! COULD BECOME A POOR. WATCH OUT!

The rest? FUCK THEM, GET A JOB, PULL YOURSELF UP! THEY DESERVE IT, somehow.

Truth is, a majority of us are suffering so that a minority of us special snowflakes can live reasonably.

Some of the more callous ones will actually say, "we don't have enough resources", so FUCK THE POORS! Be thankful you are one of us!

Fail to hold that line and what happens? YOU END UP ONE OF THE POORS, AND FUCK YOU.

Nobody wants to talk about class issues. TOO MANY POORS. If you are a poor, and don't have some reason, it's your fault.

Welcome to white voter syndrome. They feel this shit. Hell, I do, and I'm white and think it's a hot load of bullshit, divisive as hell, unjust, and you name it.

I'm expected to say, FUCK THE POORS! And when I don't? It's as if I shit on my besties right then and there! HOW COULD YOU NOT HOLD THAT LINE? YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF THEM?

No joke. This shit happens, not in such blunt terms, but you bet your ass it happens. I don't have an official reason to be poor, so it's my fucking fault. Somehow. (speaking generally here, not specifically, k?)

Now the only way these upper class people can live with themselves at all is reasons!

Black poors, foreign poors, abused poors, female poors, gay poors, but don't be a tranny poor. They don't rate yet. (sick, isn't it?)

Identity politics is just another form of POOR FUCKING PRIDE!

Never mind all the abuse, being downtrodden every day, high costs, high risks, dying early. That shit isn't even worth the time of day.

No, POOR PRIDE is taking it up the ass hard, owning up to the fact that we are born to take it, will take it gladly and repeatedly so those with the most get what?

JUST A LITTLE MORE.

Now some of you may not like this post very much. It's ugly, and I intend it to be.

This is what we face.

Pelosi said just the other day, "Well we are capitalists and that's just how it is!"

Translated, that means: "LOOK, WE ARE GONNA GET OURS, AND GET MORE, BECAUSE FUCK THE POORS!"

We face people who really don't care. We can talk about why they don't care all day long too. Out of touch, stupid, greedy, evil, incompetent, whatever floats your boat.

The key thing is they really, truly don't care.

They are not paid to care. Who pays them? NOT THE POORS!

Any questions?

Know why we have money in politics? Why we have legal corruption, bribes?

THOSE FUCKING POORS TOOK FROM US!

New Deal politics. Progressive politics.

And they never, ever, ever want to see that shit happen again. IT WAS THEFT! WE MADE THAT MONEY, AND WE NEED MORE MONEY, NOT LESS MONEY!

Profits before people.

That is what we face. That is what the nation has become.

I suggest you start taking it there and keep it right there. It's a lot harder to say, "FUCK THE POORS", when we start making it obvious what is going on.

UNITY!

Know what that means?

HOLD THE LINE ON FUCKING THE POORS, is what UNITY means. It means we all agree to the fact that a whole lot of us are gonna suffer, and that's all OK, because those of us who don't are somehow worth it, or better, or deserving, and don't ever question that, or you aren't worthy!

Small Democratic party? Bet your ass! If it's too much bigger, guess what?

IT WILL HAVE POORS IN IT! FUCK THEM.

We've got basically one guy in government willing and able to speak right to this, and it's Bernie fucking Sanders.

Know what he did this election?

HE BROKE THE LINE.

See, it's OK to have one token person out there pandering to the people, peddling hope, ideas, leaving the taste and smell of better times to come out there. And it's all fun and games, UNTIL SOMEONE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT THE POORS!

Bernie did that. Told us it's money in politics. Told us it's corruption made legal. Told us there is enough for this nation to do right by it's people and he showed us places all over the world where they do just that too!

FUCK BERNIE AND HIS POORS!

That too is what we face.

We have been vilified, shamed, slandered, marginalized, ignored, pushed aside, jerked off, blamed for doing one basic thing:

We didn't go along with FUCK THE POORS!

And folks, that shit is just not OK? What? Do you want to become a POOR? Are you one now? You know that is your fault right?

I won't go along with this at all. Neither should you. Rub their faces in it. Every last bit of bullshit they float out there can be tied directly back to a singular fact:

THOSE WITH THE MOST ARE TAKING TOO MUCH AND THEY WANT MORE

Everything.

When we say we are about the ideas, that means:

INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITY

IT'S TIME TO MAKE COLLEGE TUITION FREE AND DEBT FREE

GETTING BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS AND RESTORING DEMOCRACY

CREATING DECENT PAYING JOBS

A LIVING WAGE

COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE TO SAVE THE PLANET

A FAIR AND HUMANE IMMIGRATION POLICY

RACIAL JUSTICE

FIGHTING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING

FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS

WORKING TO CREATE AN AIDS AND HIV-FREE GENERATION

FIGHTING FOR LGBT EQUALITY

EMPOWERING TRIBAL NATIONS

CARING FOR OUR VETERANS

MEDICARE FOR ALL

STRENGTHEN AND EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY

FIGHTING TO LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES

FIGHTING FOR DISABILITY RIGHTS

SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS' PLAN FOR PUERTO RICO

STANDING WITH GUAM

PREVENTING A GLOBAL RACE TO THE BOTTOM IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY

GENERAL ELECTRIC MUST PAY TO RESTORE THE HUDSON RIVER

CONSTITUTION PIPELINE MUST BE DEFEATED

SUPPORTING HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

ENDING THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM

FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS

IMPROVING THE RURAL ECONOMY

FIGHTING FOR NURSES

REFORMING WALL STREET

REAL FAMILY VALUES

WAR AND PEACE

WAR SHOULD BE THE LAST OPTION: WHY I SUPPORT THE IRAN DEAL

MAKING THE WEALTHY, WALL STREET, AND LARGE CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE

Look at that list, and it's super easy to see. Those with the most want more and they are gonna get it, FUCK THE POORS.

Another thing we face:

Isn't it enough that we are getting along? The gays can marry, you can smoke a little pot in most places now without doing 10 hard for having a seed in your pocket. We got programs and special participation ribbons too! You poors with reasons get a ribbon, and some extra help, because you are so important!

What isn't said is far more ugly. IF YOU DON'T FUCK THE POORS, MAYBE WE JUST WON'T GET ALONG ANYMORE.

Coming to an abortion clinic near you. FUCK WOMEN, because YOU DIDN'T HOLD THE LINE ON FUCKING THE POORS, now look at the mess?

YOUR FAULT!

YOUR FAULT YOU DIDN'T FUCK THE POORS LIKE THE REST OF US!

What? Are you stupid?

Rub their faces in it. You can take every last bullshit thing they say, link it to one of the issues and ask hard, "What is worth what?" type questions.

Making them admit to FUCK THE POORS is a whole lot worse than just doing it quietly along with everyone else, and that is the game Bernie quit playing.

Now it's overt! We are having to finally admit that our delicate coalition is more about FUCK THE POORS than it is anything else!

Remember, those special poors with reasons? We took care of them, wasn't that enough?

Honestly, I do not blame the right for calling the 'left', such as it is, on that shit. Not one bit.

It's CLASS STUPID!

But oh noes! If we admit to class, then we are in real trouble, because all of us who said, "FUCK THE POORS!" end up looking really bad, like "maybe we took too much" or "we didn't really care when we said we did" kind of bad.

Shitty.

We Berners are not wrong about this!

Not one lick. We are about the ideas, and that means being about making it better for all of us, including the least of us. We all know we have families, or others close to us who need us. We know everyone needs health care. We know everyone needs a clean place to live, school, and all that basic stuff.

We know our kids are fucked, and we know why and who too.

We are not about FUCK THE POORS, and basically everyone hates us for that, BECAUSE WE AREN'T HOLDING THE LINE, just as BERNIE DIDN'T HOLD THE LINE.

It's a shitty, completely unnecessary, greed driven, cold, heartless line.

Stand on that. Stand tall. Beat back fear, blame and shame and point right at the poors. They need us, THEY ARE US! Time to stand together as a class. Take no more shit.

I am. Make no mistake. I'm actually complicit. I bought all that bullshit, was a total believer. Incremental change.

FUCK THE POORS TODAY, BUT MAYBE NOT TOMORROW.

Yeah, I did that. Sucks. Bet a lot of you did too. Maybe didn't even realize it.

I didn't.

But I do now! BET YOUR ASS.

And no more. I really don't care how much we have to take out of the asses of big corporations and wealth to make it right. Really, I don't give two shits.

Why?

Because we have more than enough and they can still be super wealthy. They just don't need more. What they need is less, and for that to happen, we have to get past this FUCK THE POORS bullshit.

I only know one way to do that, and it's the same fucking way we've done about every other good thing.

Don't shut up. Call to not fuck the poors and call for others to join us. Organize, pool our money, win elections, protest, and do it all.

Some of the smarter ones might ask you, "Why?"

The answer is simple, "Could be me needing help, so why not?"

If they say anything at all other than, "Yeah", it's FUCK THE POORS!

Work that shit. They deserve every word of it, and I'm just not gonna coddle people on it. Not when there is a majority out there now.

Should never have, but hey! This isn't always easy to see.

It's easier when we tell our stories, or we share those of others we know. Personification will beat out vilification. It has on every other issue, and it can do the same thing on economic issues, but sadly, it will require getting personal.

They say we aren't nice! They say, "gosh, that's rude!" and all kind of other shit. Well, flip it. ISN'T FUCKING THE POORS JUST AS SHITTY AS IT GETS?

Of course it is, the whole point. Lock. Stock. Barrel.

So which is it?

FUCK THE POORS, or get to work fixing this shit so we can all enjoy a little bit of life before we tip over for lack of reasonable health care?

ONWARD!

Class war kids. Coming to a block near you.

Your author can be found at WayOfTheBern.com and other POORS friendly places on the Internez

I don’t expect a warm reception. It’s fine, just think really hard about who needs what and why.

I can’t sell this shit anymore. Neither should you. Time for real change, time to take the party back for the people where it is needed more than most of you probably are willing to admit.