{"id":5496,"date":"2016-08-14T23:37:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T06:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2019-08-03T03:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T10:39:15","slug":"a-sign-of-the-times-hawaii-delegate-chelsea-lyons-kent-tells-the-swill-bucket-why-she-flipped-off-the-hawaiian-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5496","title":{"rendered":"A sign of the times! The Swill Bucket interviews Chelsea Lyons Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hawaii delegate explains\u00c2\u00a0why she flipped off the Hawaiian delegation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.” Kurt Vonnegut from Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons<\/i><\/p>\n

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Delegate Chelsea Lyons Kent “flips off” the Hawaiian delegation for its duplicity and for \u00c2\u00a0undermining democracy!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The 2016 presidential election so far has left me feeling acutely unrepresented. The one candidate that seemed reasonable was, through malice and chicanery, politically neutered by my former Party, yet Mr. Sanders continues to play a weird game of ignoring what Party infidels did to him and us.<\/p>\n

There has been only one time during this election when I felt in some way represented. It occurred during the Democratic National Committee convention and wasn’t part of the script. Leaders of the Hawaiian delegation ignored the 70%, majority who had voted for Sanders in the primaries and cast their ballots instead for Hillary Clinton. Hawaii had even passed a resolution announcing its resolve that delegates were expected to vote according to the state’s popular will. Only two super delegates honored the resolution–Tulsi Gabbart and Tim Vandeveer–the rest all voted for Clinton. Delegate Chelsea Lyons Kent (CLK) realized that Sanders’ supporters in Hawaii had just been royally screwed by the Democratic Party of Hawaii (DPH). In that moment she had a choice: she could fake a smile and feign joviality–or she could use the moment to register an honest statement, and that’s what she did–She gave the duplicitous delegates “the finger” on national television.<\/p>\n

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Bravo! Chelsea! For the first time this election year, I felt represented! Democratic Party officials decided to censure her honest and courageous rebellion, however, threatening to invalidate her delegate credentials if she didn’t apologize and agree to and meet a set of specific conditions. “I did<\/i> have my credentials taken at the DNC. I was given the opportunity to get them back, but I chose not to. I was told that if I apologized to Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono, and the DNC, that I would get my credentials back. I absolutely, 100% refused to do that. Both Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono chose to vote against the 70% of voters in Hawaii–who chose Bernie Sanders–and cast their votes for Hillary Clinton instead,” CLK told me. “There is nothing democratic about the Democratic National Committee,” she said, describing the convention as nothing more than “well-orchestrated theater”. Party officials, she reported, worked tirelessly to produce a false image of unity by silencing all dissenters.<\/p>\n

“It’s a crushing realization when it dawns on you that democracy truly is dead. When the cameras were turned on my delegation, I had approximately three seconds to figure out how I could protest that moment. Especially that<\/i> moment. If there was one moment throughout the convention that I would want to destroy the illusion of, it would have been that moment,” CLK recounted. “So I did the only thing I could think of….” (video clip <\/a>1:28)<\/p>\n

Everything is not okay in the Democratic Party<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chelsea Lyons Kent (CLK) explained that the Democratic Party’s established structure–on both the local and the national level–caters to big business and career politicians. In Hawaii, the DPH has been primarily controlled by a small clique that has been present for years. “If you are just a concerned citizen looking for an organization through which to enact change, you are in the wrong place,” she observed. If you’re looking to climb the establishment ladder, then you are welcome to stay.” She added:<\/p>\n

“I like to say that our local party is more like ‘Democracy role playing’. It was only once I \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0was at the convention that I realized [the corruption] extended all the way up the chain. I think the overwhelming issue is that people are more concerned with politeness and propriety than they are with election fraud and the outrageous lack of democracy in America. We speak of paradise and Aloha without mentioning the corruption of our local party, the thousands of homeless people littering our streets, and the big-money companies that are destroying the land. We aren’t doing anyone any favors by perpetuating this false image of unity. Everything is not okay in the Democratic Party.”<\/p>\n

CLK describes the Democratic Party of Hawaii (DPH) as exceptionally unhelpful to newer Party members. There is no outreach. No-one is sending out invitations to join the organization or to attend their event. DPH representatives elect new positions yearly but don’t explain how one runs for them. “You will have to do all of your own research. You either read the cluttered manifesto that is the rule book or remain clueless. There is a much greater sense of exclusion<\/i> than that of inclusion,” CLK said. “It becomes clear very quickly that the Democratic Party is indeed a private club–a far cry from the party of the working class that they promote themselves to be.”<\/p>\n

Lyons Kent says she will be voting for Jill Stein<\/a> because the two-party system exemplifies excessive power in the hands of too few. In many other countries it’s common to have a slate of candidates in an election, yet in the US we only have two! She says she believes that Jill Stein and Gary Johnson have a unique opportunity to really shake up this election. “It’s likely that neither will win, but it would send a clear message to the major parties that they shouldn’t choose such unlikable candidates,” CLK said. “Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are equally terrifying options, and both of them will lead us into war. The American people deserve better.”<\/p>\n

Chelsea Lyons Kent Explains Why She Gave The Middle Finger During DNC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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