Bernie told to "drop his weapons and put his hands where we can see them."

[agracie]

The Democratic establishment is putting all the heat it can on Bernie Sanders to drop his weapons and put his hands where we can see them. This includes the media establishment.



http://www.salon.com/2016/03/29/we_must_smash_the_clinton_machine_democratic_elites_and_the_media_sold_out_to_hillary_this_time_but_change_is_coming/


Please forward this to a couple hundred of your closest friends.

[disillusioned73]

1. Thatz a good question...

"Clinton backed NAFTA and the TPP, dithered on the minimum wage and still doesn’t support a living wage. Why would labor help her defeat a man who never once left its side on these and countless other vital issues?"

[Scuba]

4. /This/

[merrily]

2. "It was a plant dressed up as a scoop."

The amount of kabuki being served us out of Washington, D.C., 50 state capitols, mayoral mansions, and US territories is very hard to overestimate.

The same is undoubtedly true of foreign nations, but this is the only country whose laws forced it to give me a vote.

[mak3cats]

3. K&R for an excellent article. Thanks! (eom)

[disillusioned73]

5. Fantastic article..

[grntuscarora]

6. K/R

[4ricksren]

7. Bernie's America is growing and maturing each day!

Great article!

Someone also posted a few good links on DU about how the 2008 Obama Primary Election team also pointed out numerous Hillary-Primary-Election voter suppression tactics: closing voting sites early, registration confusions, etc.

"It's a never-ending battle for a piece that's always torn."
-- Dylan

[Baobab]

8. How ugly it is that they are even considering her after all this: Quote

"Clinton backed NAFTA and the TPP, dithered on the minimum wage and still doesn’t support a living wage. Why would labor help her defeat a man who never once left its side on these and countless other vital issues?

She backed the Defense of Marriage Act in the ’90s, opposed same-sex marriage till 2013 and recently recalled Nancy Reagan as a hero of the AIDS crisis. The Human Rights Campaign may be the bravest and most loyal of all liberal lobbies. Why abandon a stalwart ally like Sanders for one who dithered and dodged on every tough issue?

From Sister Souljah in 1992 to Barack Obama in 2008, the Clinton record on racial politics is highly mixed. She backed the Clinton/Gingrich welfare bill that left millions of African Americans in poverty and the Clinton crime bill that landed millions more in jail. Why did a PAC run in the name of the Congressional Black Caucus pick her over a guy who went to jail to protest segregated housing?

The answers are many and complicated. One is that some once great, grass roots movements pledged their troth to a political party and lost touch with their values and their members. Led by hired technicians and assorted other Washington lifers, many froze members out of their decisions. It’s a big part of the story but not the whole story. Another part pertains to ideology and the tyranny of tactical thinking."

[agracie]

9. It boggles the mind.