That's not a prediction. In fact, yesterday's post was about the very real possibility of Trump winning another four year in the Oval Office; one might say that would be a case of Trump beating the country, again.

_{Image by Andy Blackledge - source: Flickr}

"I want to do what's best for the country." You've heard politicians make that claim and promise over and over again, and in many languages as well. I want us to stop and think about that for a moment, and consider what that really means. Because there's a difference between what's good for the country and what's good for the people in that country. America is doing great as a country. It's still considered the richest and most successful liberal democracy, and the strongest nation in the world. GDP is up and unemployment is down, the stock markets are doing great as well. "The country" has become an abstraction of it's prevailing socioeconomic values, the same neoliberal values that are pushed by the corporate media and politicians from both sides of the political spectrum. "The country" as an idea has been completely reduced to a set economical metrics; in the global village our world has rapidly become, this set of metrics provides the people of each country a means of judging how well "the country" is doing in the global economical race between nation states. We all know what the problem is with this type of ranking is, as we've seen the results of half a century of doing so; it in now way represents the well being of the people living within "the country."

Now, bringing this back ti the current elections in America, the Democratic primaries in particular; it seems that the DNC, and also many voters, are of the opinion that priority number one is beating president Trump, that beating Trump currently is what's best for "the country." On the surface I agree with that sentiment; I've made no secret about my opinion on this incompetent authoritarian clown. But when I hear the Democratic party establishment use this argument to justify their intent to steal the nomination away from Bernie Sanders in a contested convention this summer, all kinds of alarm-bells go off in my head. Under Trump "the country" is doing just fine judging by the metrics I've mentioned above; under Trump there's no threat to the status quo that benefits the few who's well-being are correctly represented by those metrics. Globalization under the paradigm of neoliberalism has resulted in the infamous race to the bottom, that coincided with the elites' race to the financial top. For half a century we've experienced first hand that what's best for "the country" is in no way equivalent to what's best for the people; it has in fact proven to be the exact opposite.

The race to the bottom is a socio-economic phrase to describe government deregulation of the business environment, or reduction in tax rates, in order to attract or retain economic activity in their jurisdictions.
_{source: Wikipedia}

_{Elizabeth Warren surrogate predicts a Bloomberg collapse}

So when Democratic candidates, or representatives thereof, claim they want to do anything they can to beat Donald Trump, and when they subsequently claim that they want to make sure their nominee is someone who the whole party can rally behind, they don't mean to say they want a candidate who you, the voters, the people can all rally behind. They mean that they want someone the party-elite can rally behind, the delegates and the superdelegates. This again proves that they don't care about you at all, they don't care about democracy unless it's politically advantageous for themselves to claim that they do; for years these Democrat hacks have been complaining about Trump becoming the president with Hillary Clinton having gained 3 million more votes than him. For years Warren, Buttigieg, Biden and Klobuchar (not Bloomberg; he's just fine with Trump) have been shouting that democracy should mean "one person, one vote," that the one with the most votes wins. But not anymore, not now that there's a candidate who actually wants to do what's best for the people. In the end, and I've said it many times before, they don't care about beating Trump at all.

Another important consideration is that Trump is not the actual problem; how many times have you read or heard that Trump is a symptom of a deeper and bigger problem? It's true: Trump is not the problem, which is why just beating him is not not the solution. The solution is taking away the causes that resulted in this game-show host becoming the president of the world's mightiest nation; Bernie Sanders' proposed policies are that solution as they represent a radical break away from the neoliberal paradigm that caused income and wealth inequality grow out of any reasonable proportions, the globally implemented policies of financial deregulation that caused the latest financial crash followed by inhumane austerity measures inspired by that very same mindset. This is the cause of the growing unrest and xenophobia, the growing feeling of despair among the western world's working class; the little economical power they held has been taken away from them, which left them with their democratic vote as their only means of exerting a small amount of power. And now they're taking that away as well; don't let them!

_{Will Obama try to swing the convention against Bernie}

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