Why It All Comes Down to Voting

And confusion between “Progressives”, “Democrats”, and “Independents”

I wrote some of this in response to another Medium article but I think it needs to be seen by a wider audience. The first paragraph and points 1 and 2 are from that article and bracketed in quotation marks.

[“What do Progressives do, if the Democratic Party and the cooperative media quash Sanders’ bid and insert a conservative neoliberal as our only practical alternative to Trump? What is our best choice? In such a case, Progressives have two options:

1. Vote for Trump and assure that the fascist state consolidates in a timely fashion, prompting its eventual overthrow in the traditional bloody revolution.

2. Vote for the conservative Democrat who, consistent with Democratic Party tradition, will simply delay the revolution by four years.”]

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Nice strawman there. A brief knowledge of fifty years of Presidents is nice to have.

Since the Republican Reagan started us on an anti-union, anti-progress agenda by cutting taxes from the top marginal rate from 70% to 28%, the yearly deficit climbed, along with the National debt. The totally expected recession forced him to institute the biggest peace-time tax increase in US…