Fake news? Why not? We have fake elections, fake politics, fake elites, fake banks, fake energy policy, fake education and a fake-ass sheep to the slaughter American working class getting fucked every day

The Democrats and Republicans are both in the pocket of the 1%. The corporate media does nothing but distort. Elections are all frauds. We’re long overdue for an uprising.

Neither Trump, nor the regular Republicans, nor the regular Democrats give a damn about working people. The 1% has the run of the place.

Elites don’t have to cling to power until the bloody end. Sometimes, sanity breaks out. Otto van Bismarck’s policy of State Socialism was designed to cut the legs out of the radicals by giving the worker something a bit more than a symbolic bone. FDR’s New Deal, much later, maybe in the same spirit, saving capitalism from itself.

Both of those examples of elites doing something unexpected come with either the threat of social turmoil from an organized left. Since we in America do not currently have something like a worker’s movement that is ready to make some real noise, the elites aren’t going to roll over and let us have something more than a bone. A fig leaf, fake politics, a bone.

You shouldn’t have to be actually starving as in the Great Depression to demand democratic government that belongs to the people, not the oligarchs. This year has given us plenty of evidence we do not have a stake in this government and that is why we’re suffering.

And the elites should not actually fear a breakdown of social order to care about what happens to the workers. They have enough. But no. They are clinging to the bitter end. They aren’t going to get touched when the cops and the protesters battle it out on the frozen plain. They’ll be comfortable and rich the whole time.

Goldman Sachs Builders And Innovators Summit, 10/29/13:

HILLARY: I want to get back to having a two-party system that can have an adult conversation and a real debate about the future. MR. BLANKFEIN (CEO of Goldman Sachs): Yeah, and one thing, I’m glad — I’m proud that the financial services industry has been the one unifying theme that binds everybody together in common. (Laughter.)”

You see? Elections, issues: they’ve been conning us. Take a look at this email from John Podesta: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23756

Here we see folks close to the DNC and HRC routinely corrupting democracy who know from personal experience that the Princeton study of democratic outcomes (no democracy in America study) is real and they know why. Producing the results (oligarchy) found in the study is their bread and butter.

Trump is nominating some real losers to his cabinet. You could call his cabinet of billionaires and freaks a “basket of deplorables.” Suppose you dream of a Democratic-Republican coalition of the sane to tank some of these nominations and perhaps the nutty policies these choices portend: how might you get some Republicans senators to side with Democrats in saying no some of the time?

Republicans are blowing in the wind. But which way is the wind going to blow?

Blow right: If they feel that Trump will be an electoral success and end up popular with the Republican base and a lot of independents in two or four years, they might not want to be tarred with being psuedo RINOs who challenged Trump.

Blow left: If they think, on the other hand, that a wave of revulsion will sweep the country as we suffer through crisis after crisis under Trump and he will spiral into low 20s approval ratings before he’s done, then they might want to get out in front of the curve and vote against him enough to be able to distance themselves from this sinking Trump ship (in the second scenario).

The best hint as to which future is likely to happen the Republicans who might be on the fence can get is by looking over at the Democrats. If the Democrats are lead by losers like Chuck “NYC Banker” Schumer and Nancy “Bay area millionaire” Pelosi (Everything is fine!), then Republicans would be smart to bet on Trump and not say no to anything he does because he will certainly roll over any Democrat as hapless as Hillary or Schumer or Pelosi, or any of their loser ilk.

If, on the other hand, Bernie Sanders is in charge, then the Republicans can be sure that the Democrats will come back like a tsumani and they better get right with dog now, that the whole nation is about to shift hard left and they don’t want to be dinosaurs in the new order.

Those Bernie crowds in the primary, all that canvassing and energy, those $37 donations scared the shit out of both the Republicans and the regular Democrats. If that force had the backing of a major party and found a way around the corrupt corporate media, the left would be unstoppable.

You think the master class liked this shit? Look at it!

If Bernie sets the agenda and the Democrats talk about real issues that help working people, like $15 a hour minimum wage, Medicare for all, free college, infrastructure, peace dividend, unions, breaking up the big banks, the Democrats will be as strong for a generation as they were after the 1932 election when the Democrats dominated the country under and after FDR.

So you see, the way to stop Trump now is to fight Democrats. With leadership as pathetic and Pelosi and Schumer, with Hillary and Obama talking about fake news and Russia instead of government healthcare for all and higher wages, there will be no way to stop Trump. Only Trump might stop Trump at this point.

No matter what, we have to rise up and demand the government back from the oligarchs, the entrenched Goldman Sachs oligarchs that propped up Hillary and the Goldman Sachs and Exxon oligarchs that are backing Trump.