Done with this.

I've reached a decision on the November election. I am boycotting this foul nonsense.

Up until yesterday afternoon, I fully expected that the Clinton and Sanders campaigns would, in plenty of time for a unified convention, reach settlement with Sanders on a sufficient proportion of his campaign's core claims and emerge with Sanders fully on board with support for the Clinton general election campaign.

In that imagined scenario, I would withhold my remaining reservations and disgust for the Clintons' neoliberalism and violent public policy preferences, and allow myself to rely on Sanders endorsement of Clinton to go to the polls in November and cast my vote against the rise of Trumpism and for a--hopefully--more firmly reform-oriented (if not revolutionary) Hillary Clinton.

Up through yesterday, the atmospherics pointed to a glide path forming for peaceful resolution and soft-landing for the Sanders campaign.

But

Yesterday, in an act of journalistic malfeasance and demonstration of media dominance, AP news service and the arrogant academic mediocrity turned hired gun, John Lapinski, the "elections director" at NBC, decided to conduct a media junta, auto-appointing the corporate media the authority of election outcomes...along the way to jumping the gun on declaring Clinton the "presumptive nominee."

I do not claim any sort of conspiracy between the corporate media (which has its own interests at stake in maintaining the ascendancy of undiluted neoliberalism in the Democratic Party and establishing its power to shape political reality) and the Clinton campaign in this short-circuiting the voting outcomes in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the District of Columbia. So, why take my disgust out on Clinton?

Because the election is not about Clinton (alert to Clinton supporters).

Every vote cast in an election is a legitimization of the process of the election. The hope/myth of "government by the consent of the governed" relies on the election system to reassure the polity that "we the people" are in control and that the system's output of law and policy is legitimate.

This year the private duopoly of the Democratic and Republican party(ies) have overcome historic levels of public disfavor and disgust to deliver up the least popular candidates ever to run for the American presidency: One candidate whose unpopularity and publicly proclaimed dishonesty is only saved from almost certain defeat by the ravening lunacy and neo-fascism of the other candidate.

This year the monopolized corporate media conducted an open celebration of the first stages of the neo-fascist's campaign while perpetrating a systematic brown out of the opponent of the neoliberal's choice for continued corporate power.

This shit was piled high enough for me to have grave reservations about casting my "sacred vote" into this squalid steaming pile of profanity.

AP/NBCs decision makes this cycle's election for me a carnival of contempt for the will of the people. This election mocks the aspirations of democracy--government of, by, and for the people.

I will not participate.

My means are meager and my tools are limited. But with whatever and all means and tools I can muster, I will resist the law and policy administered and presided over by whomever is illegitimately elected by this corrupt and degenerate electoral system.

In my view, there is now only one honorable political path to follow: Direct action resistance.

Pending a revolutionary change in how we aggregate and organize political interests into parties, how we conduct public debate and political contestation through public media, and how we elect representatives of the people's will, elections in America are a Roman circus--without even bread.

I will not participate. I will not legitimate. Then I will resist.