Election dictionary, the 2016 edition

Dear Editor: Here are some definitions for the 2016 presidential election.

SUPERDELEGATES: A trick term used by corporations to rig the nominating system in favor of their own candidates.

FREE SPEECH: What the Supreme Court calls the hundreds of millions of dollars that corporations donate to these candidates.

CANDIDATE DEBATES: What the corporations call a televised gathering of presidential candidates they have paid for.

MEDIA COVERAGE: What newspapers and news programs give to the corporatebacked candidates. Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and Gary Johnson need not apply.

LESSER OF TWO EVILS: What people say when both parties run presidential candidates who promote corporate rule, environmental destruction and war.

HOLD THEIR FEET TO THE FIRE: What people say when one of these terrible candidates gets elected.

SELLOUT: A word people eventually use when their elected president does nothing about corporate power, climate change or endless war.

NEOLIBERALISM: How capitalism transfers money from the poor to the very wealthy by trashing the planet.

NEOCONSERVATISM: How capitalism transfers money from the poor to the very wealthy by bombing the planet.

The .01 PERCENT: The group of Americans who have done exceptionally well under our last five presidents.

INFINITESIMAL: The magnitude of change that will come from voting for one of the two corporate-sponsored presidential candidates in 2016.

OMNICIDE: The terrible price we will all pay someday for not challenging this illegitimate system before it is too late.