Why Warren doesn’t move me

I'M NOT interested in Elizabeth Warren's unlikely potential for president. She has said she won't, and that if she does, it will be on a Clinton/Warren ticket.

Elizabeth Warren isn't actually that progressive. Striking Walmart workers recently told her that her bid to raise the minimum wage doesn't go far enough. And she's solidly on the wrong side of history when it comes to the occupation of Palestinian land and the subjugation of its people.

But there are more reasons than policy not to get swept up in the fervor of a potential Warren run for the presidency.

Let's assume that Warren actually is the progressive champion that people seem to think she is. Both Warren and Hillary are part of a power structure owned by Wall Street.

Even if Warren were to win support of publicly elected delegates, the Democratic National Convention (DNC) has this little thing it uses to thwart democracy. It's called the "super-delegate system."

What is the super-delegate system? Major donors to the DNC, and the politicians beholden to them, get to vote on the floor of the DNC. Each regular delegate is elected by delegates from the various states, each of which are apportioned and determined by the number of votes cast by Democratic membership, either in primaries or caucuses. So regular delegates to the DNC are representing tens of thousands of people.

Super-delegates just represent themselves, but have equal weight on the floor. Not only that, but there are enough super-delegates (remember, these are politicians beholden to super-donors or are actual super-donors themselves) to coronate whomever they want to on the DNC floor. They can coronate Hillary no matter how many votes for progressives you get out.

THAT SAID, the debates are totally controlled by the same corporate interests that hold sway over the DNC. Debates hosted on MSNBC, ABC, CNN, etc., are all a tightly controlled dog-and-pony show that highlight Corporate America's top two or top three picks repeatedly, and shut out the others, giving them fewer questions and fewer opportunities to speak.

When someone speaks out of turn, as Dennis Kucinich had to do in 2007 in order to be heard at all in one such debate, the media simply don't invite you to the next one. The entire process is controlled from start to finish, and the thing they control most is the public's access to the candidates in order to make an informed decision.

Wall Street knows exactly what they are doing. The DNC is a place to waste your time spinning your wheels in a power structure that doesn't care what you think and doesn't want you in it. Need I remind you that Rahm Emanuel said that progressives are "fucking retarded," and that Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the "left needs to be drug-tested"? These people are not our allies.

Stop making demands on a power structure that is incapable of delivering them. Join the Green Party, run for office and take power away from those who want it for themselves, and help build a truly democratic society where power is shared by the people.

The DNC is a lost cause, corrupt to the core, with an immune system in place to prevent anything progressive from happening. If you are a progressive, they don't want you anyway. It's time to just walk away and help build something worth saving.