Splitting the Entrenched Parties

“Blacks haven’t transformed the Democratic Party by our overwhelming presence. Instead, the Party has transformed us – and overwhelmed our radical politics.” The best result that can occur from the Sanders campaign would be that it leads to a split in the Democratic Party, and an end to the Rich Man’s Duopoly."

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There is also a lot of talk about how Bernie has succeeded in “moving Hillary to the Left.” That’s ridiculous. The Sanders campaign has only succeeded in forcing Hillary to tell the biggest lies of her non-stop lying career.

In any case, Clinton and the rest of her ilk will continue to lie about their plans for governance, because they serve the rich people that control the Republican-Democratic duopoly.

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But, from what we do know, Blacks are the least likely ethnic constituency to vote for Bernie. This is historically consistent with Black voting behavior in national Democratic primary elections, and presents a great paradox and contraction that goes to the heart of the Black political crisis.

Black people are the most left-leaning group in the United States, on issues of war and peace, and social justice.

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The Black Radical Tradition not only exists, it is measureable in the present day – EXCEPT on national primary election days in the Democratic Party. Which is why the Bernie Sanders campaign is all but certain to be derailed by Black voters Down South.

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[I]n national primary elections, these Black Social Democrats – these pro-peace, pro-social justice, pro-union folks – fail to express their own political sentiments at the polls.

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The reason lies in what Blacks perceive as the purpose for voting in national elections, and how they view the Democratic Party.

The nature of the American duopoly system is that one of the parties will always be the White Man’s Party, with white supremacy as its organizing principle. In this era, it’s the Republicans. In a past era, it was the Democrats.

Both of these parties are, of course, Rich Man’s Parties.

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Huge numbers will even vote against their own race, all things being equal, to pick what they believe is the strongest candidate against the Republicans – the White Man’s Party. Which is why half of Black voters, and most Black elected officials, refused to support Barack Obama against his ideological twin, Hillary Clinton, until after the Iowa primary, in 2008. Only after Obama won in a white state did Blacks abandon Hillary Clinton, wholesale.

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Blacks are the most re-distributionist constituency in the country, but they rejected Dennis Kucinich, a genuine social democrat, and John Edwards, who kicked off his campaign in New Orleans and pitched it directly to Blacks, in 2008. Instead, they rallied around the two corporatists, Clinton and Obama, as the anti-dote to the White Man’s Party.

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Is there something wrong with African Americans? No, there is something wrong with America, its history and its race and class dynamics. There is something wrong about this two-party system, where both parties are Rich Man’s Parties, and one of the parties is always the White Man’s Party.

  Glen Ford: Black Agenda Report

The Republican party has essentially been split into two: traditional and Tea Party.  However, they're still running as one.  Perhaps if the Democratic party could split, eventually we could have at least four parties running.  And then, eventually, run-off voting. Pie in the sky, perhaps.

The mainline Black civic organizations – the NAACP, the Urban League and the rest – are annexes of the Democratic Party. So are most Black churches. The party’s tentacles even reach down to the Black sororities and fraternities.

The Democrats ooze like pus from every orifice of the Black body politic.

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Democratic Party politics kills Black politics. The two cannot coexist. If you want a real Black grassroots movement, you have to fight the Democratic Party, tooth and claw.

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[Blacks] know Sanders is to the left of Clinton, but their priority is victory for the Democratic Party, and they are willing to sacrifice their own politics in its cause.

Well,maybe if Bernie does well enough in the primaries, Blacks will be willing to take a chance.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.