Corporate America won the NYS Primary

It's the day after the NYS Primary and it is evident that corporate America won.

On the Republican side – Donald Trump won the most votes. It is painfully obvious that he is for corporate America and will put their agenda forth with the usual media pomp and circumstance of a realty show TV star. I won't waste any more time on this.

Ted Cruz came in second. As expected. And he will shill for Wall Street and company. He'll just put that Bible-thumping Christian morality over the capitalist agenda. (Sad to say – the Bible says more about taking care of the poor than driving people into poverty. Then again, most Christians don't actually read the Bible. They own it. They only read what their pastor preaches about on Sunday morning. And most of the time they are preaching out of the historical context. I won't get into the horrible translational issues of bringing an ancient language into modern English.)

John Kasich came in third as expected. The compassionate conservative governor of Ohio that cut and gutted the state and has not much to show for it.

On the Democratic side – Hillary won and she is just the “friendly face” of corporate America. As I have stated before, in Bill and her own words, she is an Eisenhower Republican. Except this is not the 1950's. It is 2016 and the world has changed a great deal since that time. Except the “cold war” that we are manufacturing with Russia and China. The more things change …

Hillary will speak all the populist rhetoric and positions of the liberals and progressives. In the end, she will still be a corporate Democrat. Just like President Obama. Just without the flowery speaking style that he has. Or the personality. I have heard way too many people speak about how terrible she is at public speaking and how cold she comes across.

I don't care what she says or how she says it. If she wins the presidency, all we'll get is more of what we are getting now – the rich getting richer and everyone else getting poorer.

Sanders came in second. I know many people that are disappointed. Several of whom have said that they would not vote for Hillary in the general election in November. They can't bring themselves to do it for whatever reason is personal to them. And I'm hearing them all.

Then again, I have a fellow teacher that is a Hillary supporter. (To the extent that she actually believes in Hillary.) She gives me all this “strong woman” feminist stuff that I don't buy. Hillary, in my book, has been a political opportunist from day one.And a disaster for the American working class from day 2.

I don't buy her senatorial experience and backtracking. (Iraq was a mistake from the day President (sic) Bush mentioned it. She failed to fight against No Child Left Behind, which is destroying our schools. And the list goes on.

I don't buy her foreign policy experience. Libya is a basket case and a human rights nightmare. It was under Qadafi and even more so under the lack of government that it has in Tripoli. The Trans Pacific Partnership will be a disaster for America and the countries that sign on to it. How much of that work was done under her guidance? And every analysis that I have read on the TPP and other trade deals that the Obama Administration wants the US to enter into would be economic suicide for the working class.

But my fellow teacher, as educated as they are, refuses to cut the umbilical cord to the corporate American media and buys the two party paradigm with the infamous “lesser of two evil arguments.” Trump will be terrible for the US. No questions about that. He will be blatantly open about it.

Hillary will be the lesser of two evils. She is still evil. She'll just have the nice polished veneer that Trump lacks. The working class will still get screwed over. It's just that she'll stab us in the back.

At least when the Republicans stab us, it's in our chest and we can see them smiling as they do it.

And as far as lesser of two evils – I'm voting for the greater good.

I'm voting socialist.