Remember how Menania Trump stole Michelle Obama’s speech? You ever wonder why she was able to do that? They all say the same vapid, manipulative nonsense. Try to crimp Bernie’s speech and five words into your act of plagarism you’ve committed to a carbon tax, so no, you can’t.

See what happened with the “feel your pain” corporate Democrats?

If I leave the door of the henhouse open and a fox steals a chicken, I can’t really blame the fox. That’s what foxes do. I gave him the opportunity. If I keep leaving it open year after year and the foxes get more aggressive and fox-like, I still can’t blame them.

The Democratic party is like the farmer (me) in this parable. Since Bill Clinton at least, the Democrats have not done right by the people, have offered no meaningful, lasting improvement in people’s lives. By not giving the people universal, free, government health care, a decent minimum wage, good infrastructure, and a chance to improve through a fair education system, the Democrats lost the goodwill of the people.

The Democrats bent and accommodated as politics became distorted into a form of meaningless entertainment controlled by a few large corporations. They put up charmers for office who played sax on Arsenio Hall or slow jammed the news and firmly established the triviality of politics and elevated celebrity personality higher than policy.

So, the fox moved in. The fox moved more in. The fox moved more right. What difference does policy make? None of those policies they talk about really happen on my street, the people think, and then they might as well vote for Trump.

The rise of Trump is entirely the responsibility of the leaders of the Democratic party. They abandoned the people for the bankers, insurance companies, oil companies and military contractors. It’s not Republican propaganda. It’s true. There is no party of the people. The people know it.

In 1929 before the crash, the Republicans controlled the White House, the senate by 17 votes and the House of Representatives by 104 seats. In 1933, after FDR’s election, the Democrats had the presidency, the senate by 23 seats, and the house by more than two to one, with a massive 126 vote advantage.

The people liked the New Deal. They knew who to thank and the Democrats held the presidency for 20 straight years, and 28 out of the next 36 years. Democrats maintained control of the senate for until 1981, except for four years, so 44 out of the next 48 years. Democrats controlled the house until 1995 except for four years, so 58 out of the next 62 years.

Obama also had a crisis on his hands when he took office in 2009. But he bailed out the banks, not the homeowners. And Obamacare is an insurance company wet dream.

The New Deal lead to the Civil Rights Movement in that the federal judges that backed Thurgood Marshall’s suits were appointed by FDR. So you see, doing right by the whole people is actually a pre-condition for addressing racism. You can’t change inequality (if you actually even want to) without at least some goodwill from the masses. If you give them nothing when they desperately need and deserve a lot, they won’t be there to create a 60 year left-leaning coalition.

The open hen house door is the precondition for the rise of fox. True, if this year the Democrats had not undemocratically installed an unlikable, corrupt, dishonest, catastrophic, warmonger with a penchant for surrounding herself with sycophants, the insiders of the Democratic party might have continued on with their con for a few more years and continued to enrich themselves without any resistance from the left. But they pushed their con too far.

It’s true a Trump presidency may be an unprecedented disaster. If he were to put together a database of Muslims or find a way to stifle descent and undo freedom of the press, then his administration could be a step toward fascism. If you think American institutions are so weak that he could get away with crude, old style repression like Erdogan in Turkey or Putin in Russia, then there is a lot to worry about.

But if American institutions are simply moribund but not dead, then there maybe some silver linings to a Trump presidency. The constitutional allocation of the right to declare war to congress might finally be not only the law, but the way the government acts, de facto and de jure, an end to the Imperial Presidency.

A drone strike is an act of war and requires congressional approval. Every single strike. The president should not be able to engage in military action or even send troops to a location where war is possible without congressional authorization.

Obama and Bush openly flouted the war powers provisions of the constitution, as indeed did other presidents before them. Partisan politics prevented congress from insisting on a strict construction of the constitutional war powers regime. That was a mistake, obviously. President Trump might lead to the correction of that mistake.

A Trump presidency may have echoes of the Nazis. Maybe people will be labeled and treated differently explicitly in law under Trump based on ethnicity in a completely unconstitutional way. It’s possible, if unlikely. Trump might also be like Silvio Berlusconi, although I doubt he will hire teenage prostitutes, but you never know. Or Arnold Schwarzzenger. Some kind of clueless, megalomaniac leader, who is no good, but not the end of the world.

I bet Trump would hire a bunch of regular Republicans to run his administration, because he has no qualified people and no ideas of his own. There would be a regular Republican administration with a few cranks lead by a nut who mouths off. After he runs his mouth, the administrators will scramble to undo what he said until he blows up again. Meanwhile, the administration will be rather blandly Republican for awhile.

Then Trump will tire of the old fashion Republicans. They aren’t loyal to him and the people don’t seem to love him. He will either then spin out of control and be completely unpopular and leave the White House with his tail between his legs, or he’ll get smart, finally, and realize the Bernie Sanders agenda is the only agenda that will make the people love you. He’ll propose Medicare for all and manage to bring along enough Republicans to get it passed. When he sees how much people like it, and him, he’ll raise the minimum wage. Then win re-election in a landslide and become a true and dangerous tyrant in the second administration.

Why? Because the Democrats did not close the door and pass Medicare for all or a decent minimum wage when they had the chance.

That’s a scenario that is possible. A lot of possible scenarios for Trump. Because he is a racist pig, and because racism is the worst crime in human history, it is immoral and unethical to vote for Trump regardless of what eventually happens should he become president.

With Hillary Clinton, we do know exactly what the next four years will be like. War will continue in the Middle East without question. The same advisors that were around her when she decided to put a server in her basement to handle classified information will be around her in the White House. When a decision is to be made, the same neocons who advised Bush plus her inner circle of useless, idiotic, nobodies and campaign contributors, like George Soros, will have her ear and she will not listen to anyone outside of those circles. Millions of people, the governments of Germany, France and Saudi Arabia told her not to invade Iraq and yet she voted yes just so that she would not be called weak in an election. Other people died, but she was worried about her image.

Such a person will start a war to distract the people from a scandal. She might or might not stumble into a major war with Iran or Russia but she will definitely continue and expand our actions in the Middle East and Africa. She is surrounded by yes men and women and is capable of doing something extremely stupid, as was putting that server in her basement, voting to invade Iraq, killing Qadaffi and then laughing about it on TV like a brutal monster. Not smart. Not nice. Not safe.

In domestic policy, none of the major needs of the people will be met under Hillary. No big legislation will even be attempted and the country will continue to drift, both right and left, vulnerable to another worse demagogue, a real fascist, as politics becomes more untethered to reality and the needs of the people. Corruption will become endemic and pervasive and the corporate media will become an even worse purveyor of propaganda. As she favors the banks over the people even more than is currently the case, taking most of the elected Democrats and Republicans with her, we will be vulnerable to a financial crash that will discredit our entire democracy.

Thus, voting for endless war and Hillary Clinton is unethical and irresponsible, just as voting for racism and Donald Trump is unethical and irresponsible. Gary Johnson is a fool and William Weld is only his VP. Therefore, on election day I will proudly be casting my vote for Jill Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, the only military veteran in the race.

Racism, stolen elections, endless war, pollution, global warming, disastrous trade deals, distorted media propaganda, and inequality, cannot continue forever. Vote Green and do no evil.

After the election, the calls to unify in the face of Trump (if he wins) will begin. Rather than blame each other, we should all join together in the face of this threat. That will be true and a good idea, but…

You, the progressive, are in the passenger seat driving down route 9, straight south. You say to the driver, the corporatist, “Hey, turn left here. If you keep driving straight, we’re going to go into a ditch. The road is out ahead.” The driver keeps on going straight. So you try again, another street to the left. Nope. He keeps going south. You yell and scream at each other. Finally he pulls over to the side to stop the argument.

“Look,” says the corporatist, “we are surrounded by enemies and we need to get to our destination as soon as we can.”

The progressive says, “Sure, can I drive?”

“No.” And off you go again, straight south. Now, if in fact the bridge is out ahead and you will go right into a ditch, the passenger should continue to raise hell, even through you pulled over to have a heart to heart about not fighting any more.

Let’s try a little logic. The DNC says Hillary is brilliant. Hillary chose to make no meaningful concessions to progressive and instead to pursue some sort of strategy to attract Republicans in the summer of 2016. When faced with the choice between a couple million progressives and some sort of hypothetical group of soccer moms, she chose to count on these nonexistent soccer mom republicans. If a brilliant person makes a choice the choice is also probably brilliant. Therefore progressive should honor the brilliance of Hillary Clinton and her party by not voting for the candidate who did not want their vote.