“Decision” 2016! Proves the Adage: If Voting Mattered, They Wouldn’t Let Us Do It

by Scott Creighton

The freak show that is “Decision” 2016! just got a little more surreal (or a little more revealing. However you look at it). Check these out:

Over in Wyoming, in the Forgotten Caucus, Bernie Sanders pulled off yet another win. That’s 8 of the last 9 for the elderly firebrand if anyone is still counting. But… guess who got the most delegates?

Yep. Bernie won by over 11% and yet Hillary Clinton got about 20% more delegates (don’t do the math. I suck at math)

How’s that for democracy in action?

With election rigging like that, who needs electronic voting machines like they have in the big primary states Hillary keeps “winning”?

And before you go all “conspiracy theorist!” on me, yes, it’s well known they are stealing the elections by rigging the primaries via the electronic voting machines. Hell, even controlled opposition Amy Goodman has been forced to cover it:

Wasserman makes a good argument in that interview but fails to mention the best example of how this system is best used. Alvin Greene.

That’s a case where a strong Democratic candidate for the S.C. senate seat, Vic Rawl, was opposed in the state’s primary by a nobody named Alvin Greene. He acted like a complete retard but he had a degree from the University of South Carolina and had been working as an intelligence officer for the military is South Korea before suddenly returning home to play the role of Lenny from Of Mice and Men in the primary contest.

With no real campaigning and no advertising, SOMEHOW Alvin Greene won the primary only so he could lose to the Republican candidate and allow him to hold onto his seat.

Alvin Greene: “NoooooOOOooooOOOooooOOOOoooooOOOo!” Aug. 16th, 2010

Alvin Greene: “GooooOOOOooooOOOOoooooOOOooooOOOOo!” Aug. 16th a few seconds later, 2010

Alvin was given all kinds of face-time on places like CNN to do his “full retard” act prior to the 2010 election and of course, the Republican won without having to rig that one.

The primary contest was so obviously rigged, the Rawl took it to court before the South Carolina Democratic Party. They did this prior to the general election.

Alvin Greene didn’t even bother to show up but several expert witnesses showed how the primary had been rigged so Alvin would win in spite of the fact that he was pretending to be an idiot and no one knew who he was.

Here’s a little twist: the Democratic Party big wigs ruled in favor of Alvin Greene in spite of the fact that the evidence of electronic voting machine rigging was overwhelming.

After this, “Alvin” went on to make a big ass of himself whenever he could in public. He even got himself a felony charge in the process by accosting a white woman at a local college. Alvin Greene is black. How’s that for making sure you will lose an election in South Carolina? Be a black man and make lewd and aggressive sexual advances toward a young white woman.  Yep. That’ll do it.

He could only have made it more obvious if he had been wearing a shirt on that ABC News interview that said “I Love Sharia Law”

This was 6 years ago folks. Six years ago the election rigging via primaries was made so painfully obvious few dared even cover it but there it is.

And of course, if you will notice, the Democratic Party of South Carolina went right along with the act allowing Greene to be their candidate instead of Rawls. Do you know why? Because Rawls wasn’t a New Dem. He wasn’t a neoliberal dem and the Republican candidate was all about that neoliberal ideology, so his own party tanked his candidacy in favor of someone from the opposing party who just happened to share the same economic ideology they did.

Back to today.

Over on the Republican side of things, it seems clear the Powers That Be have decided to run a contested convention this year as The Donald’s lead seems to be slipping away.

Televangelist Cruz is making a “surprise comeback” as he delivers every line he speaks with the authenticity of a snake oil salesman from 1850.  Or, should I say, with the authenticity of Alvin Greene circa 2010.

Do Republicans really want this hated fraud to be their representative in the general election? Are they really just voting for him in order to keep Trump from being their man?

Of course not.

Once the 1st ballot ends up not providing them with a clear winner and after a bit of a theatrical show of confusion and division, party elites will offer up a “responsible” candidate, probably someone who was in the election process earlier, and that will be their nominee in spite of the will of the Republican voters.

It will be him verses the ebil Killary and as this summer drags on, more and more of her sins will be exposed setting into motion a narrative which will explain why so few Dems get out and vote in November.

Or they will blame the Sanders crowd for being “ideologues”  (I’ve already heard Chris Mathews using that line) and not coming out to support Killary, which of course, most wont.

And that ladies and gentleman is how you will get the next President of the United States ‘elected’ into office.

Who that will be is anyone’s guess but I’m still betting on Jeb. They are going to stick someone in during the fiasco of the contested convention and after all, the Bush family has done it’s part in the neoliberalizing of America and “attention must be paid” as the story goes.

Either way, this is democracy in America today. Your vote doesn’t matter.  Mr. Twain had it right all along.

So sit back have a beer and watch the show. Or better yet… don’t. Let them have their little roadside production. They’re going to do what they do no matter what we say or think. Back in 2000, 2004 and 2010 they made that perfectly clear to anyone paying attention.

What do you do when your spoiled child throws a tantrum on the floor of a store because he wants you to buy him something? You ignore him. And that is what we should do. Either that or write in a candidate. Here’s one: