TYT - DNC Defends Attack On Sanders Campaign

[DaveT]

16. What are they thinking?

Simple -- how do we beat Sanders?

You spend your career in politics and you believe in your heart that fund raising is the only significant determiner. It all flows from that.

Two generations ago, you could get elected to Congress without needing to raise more than $50,000. Now it takes millions.

Sanders is putting forward the idea that the person-to-person campaigning that defined Democratic politics from the New Deal through 1964 can be revived. These people are -- for the most part -- sincere in believing that to be naïve. Human nature then leads them to try to prove it is naïve, by using any means necessary to keep Sanders from winning.

Not coincidentally, when fundraising supplanted retail politics in the late 1960s, the shift of the entire spectrum toward the right began.


Sanders' campaign can only work if there are lots of people who are sincerely pissed off. The wars and recession that have seriously affect people's lives are what drive the Sanders movement. Professional politicians and their functionaries have not had their lives affected by that -- and all their "professional" experience tells them the only way to win is raise big money.


The real dispute between the two candidates is whether times have changed since the 1990s. Of course they have, but these people don't believe it -- and damned sure do not understand it. You can see it in Debbie's contempt for Sanders. She really believes that she knows better.

Just like Hillary, her day is passed. She does not realize that she is the one living in the past.