I had previously read two others of Ted Rall’s political graphic non-fictions – Trump: A Graphic Biography and Bernie. I often feel unlearned and at sea discussing politics, but I don’t have the patience to read political tomes, so the graphic novel format works well for me as an introduction to some of these ideas.

Ted Rall is firmly behind Bernie Sanders as he sees much of the rest of the Dems having slithered to the right and caved in to big corporations.

Some of his talking points:

Once in office, Barrack Obama backed corporation friendly politics.

Hillary Clinton’s control of the DNC stole the 2016 nomination from Bernie Sanders.

Third party candidates should not be considered spoilers, but viable alternatives. The only problem is that with electoral colleges, they need huge numbers to win states even if they achieve popular vote such as what happened with Ralph Nader.

The mainline press can torpedo a worthy candidate by not covering them example - of this was Howard Dean’s campaign.

“The Democratic Party today is less about historically disadvantaged groups like ethnic minorities and women than it is about urban upwardly mobile minorities and women” p 143

I’m not a fan of Ted Rall’s drawings, but his political points are thoughtworthy. ( )

Rall makes the case for a progressive majority of Democrats being suppressed by a centrist leadership minority. It has the feel of a rant with a touch of conspiracy theory, but having just fought down a feeling of disgust as I cast a mail-in ballot for Joe Biden as the lesser of two evils, I have to say I'm buying into a lot of what Rall has to say here. I'm not a registered Democrat, but I have been voting for their moderate candidates for decades, and I'm disappointed with the results so far. As I get older I'm feeling more and more progressive. A Green New Deal, election reform, and government regulation of corporations all sound pretty good to me.

And frankly, I would love to see a presidential candidate younger than 70 again before I turn 70 myself. ( )