The other night I watched as the DNC (Democratic National Committee) displayed corruption, deceit, power grabbing operations, all in all not playing fairly in their choosing a Presidential candidate.

In it’s desire to anoint Hillary Clinton as their candidate and then anoint her as the first woman President, they have abandoned all semblance of honor and fair play as they again displayed their attitude that they know what is best for the American people and our vote doesn’t really matter. Great if the voters fall in line with their wishes but to hell with the voters if what they want doesn’t fall in line with leaderships wishes. (Ever hear of Super delegates?)

Case in point; Hillary Clinton has been playing the political game as usual among the democratic hierarchy and is their choice to head the party as the Presidential nominee. To do that she must hold appointed offices, say the right things, play to the base, get her face in the news for exposure, kiss ass to the moneyed interest, insinuate that her main goal is to help the middle and poor classes, all the while taking big money from big money and ultimately being the big money in this country.

Whether or not you agree with or support Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump they have a point that is very logical; if you take money from a source, you are expected to and will do that source’s bidding, if not that source will dry up.

Logical, right?

Would you keep financially supporting a candidate who voted and supported ideas contrary to yours? Would you keep a person on your payroll that did the opposite of your bidding? If you coached a team and one player wasn’t buying into the strategy for a winning team, would you continue to play that player or would you bench him/her? Whose bidding would you be more likely to pursue, one that was favored by a $10,000 donation or the one supported by the $10 donation?

Logical, right?

The rub comes in as Bernie Sanders has lit a fire under the people. He draws huge crowds at his rallies, far bigger than Hillary or Donald. He is responding to a nerve in our society that says no more politics as usual, no more…

• All for the rich and little for the rest.

• Giving to the rich and it will “trickle down” to the rest. (Yeah right! As Bill Maher says with sarcasm, give a bone to a big dog and I’m sure he’ll share with the smaller dog.)

• Having the American taxpayers bail out the failing banks when their greedy corrupt illegal actions caused an almost “off the cliff” collapse of the world’s economy.

While the DNC has been trying to very quietly derail his campaign and highlight Hillary, the voters have had other ideas. We are living in a time when the American people, and I dare say, the population of the world, are tired of politics as usual.

We are looking for other means of governance, other ways to operate our respective governments to support more of the people than just those of wealth and power. After all isn’t that what our founding Fathers had in mind, a government unlike England’s where the aristocracy owned all, controlled all, and there was no upward mobility?

Recent studies have shown that the upward mobility in this country is now stymied and almost impossible for most of us. The rich and powerful have artfully and slowly worked their way into controlling our government by way of controlling the parties first. The Donald has been fighting the GOP establishment and now Bernie has to fight the DNC.

In a true democracy it is the will of the majority that rules and in an oligarchy it is those with money and power that rule.

Which do we have here in the good ol’ US of A?

Has our democracy been trumped by trumpeters of the rich like Trump? (I play with words!)

Has the two-party system turned into two good ol’ boys clubs with differing agendas?

Does your voice (your vote) still count?

Do you still have a vote?

The NY dems purged 125,000 voters from the voting rolls in their primary, from the Bronx area coincidentally the same borough Bernie is from. With closed primaries the independent voters don’t get a chance to help select the nominees for the respective parties that will ultimately run for the Presidency.

And this is just the primaries! Voter suppression for the Presidential and congressional elections is rampant, thanks to the recent ruling of our beloved Supreme Court that cut special sections of the Civil Rights Act.

Feeling left out, feeling like you have no voice, feeling uneasy, feeling a twisting in you tummy, a little head ache coming on?

Take two aspirin and call me in the morning!