As Hillary Clinton has refused to acknowledge the need for a political revolution, the electorate has no choice but to demand that she stands pledge to the following political mandates. Instead of voting someone only as a person, electorate should vote their pledges in at the same time. Only when candidates are under pledge will their candidacies be validated. This newly proposed rule should also apply to candidates for the U.S. Congressional elections. The political mandates are presented as examples in the following:
1) The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors, and their Super PACs (Political Action Committees); reclaim power to the people from capital, 2) The people will not continue to accept a corrupt campaign finance system; repeal the Citizens United Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010; indict the Wall Street executives for wrong-doings causing the Great Recession or Structural Crisis of 2007-2008, 3) Fight against the socio-political inequalities such as different pays for the same work for women and minorities; privatizations of public enterprises; cuts to social security, veteran's needs, Medicare, Medicaid, and education; capital's monopoly on wage levels and its refusal to raise the minimum wage per hour, 4) eliminate the World's Policeman Syndrome of the government; repeal the Shock and Awe and Foreign Regime Change as well as the Perpetual Warfare quagmire; cap and then reduce military budget annually, 5) amend the U.S. Constitution so that the Supreme Court justices shall be elected by the people as they are politicians in judicial robes, instead of being appointed by presidents of the U.S. Since the DNC (Democratic National Committee) is one of the pro-capital establishments, its and other power-that-be support for Hillary Clinton as the nominee without fulfilling any pledge is all too clear. There is almost no chance for DNC and other super delegates to implement any of such political pledges. It's up to the advanced groups across the country to organize the people. So far as economic policy pledges are concerned, candidates should not eschew their duty either. However, political economy is both a complicated subject and social-class-based science; simple-minded or supra-class statements may render serious policy changes impossible. For an example, short of a radical change of the politico- economic -socio-system of a capitalist regime, superficial changes in economic policies matter little in so far as the fundamental and long-term interests of the oppressed and exploited are concerned. Pledges for politico-economic policies as a result of this contradiction should mention reasons why they are limited to superficialities instead of incisive criticism, profound and systematic changes. As an example, to prevent future financial and economic crises a la 2007-2008 from happening again, fiscal expansion through big increases in public spending can only buy time but will never be able to stop crises because crises happen not so much this or that policy or lack of it as the fundamental contradiction between capital and labor power. There is no chance that without the system changed, crises disappear all by itself. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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