2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Why is the DNC trying to screw over Bernie Sanders?" [View all]Ford_Prefect
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She has read the tea leaves and made her calculations about just how many progressive remarks she needs to make to fool Democratic voters just one more time. David Brock is helping by running the rat-fucking campaign and has lots of help from the campaign insiders left over from 2008.
As to why they are doing it? The answer is plainly written on the list of Wall Street, Big Pharma, and MIC Donors. They believe that power belongs to those willing to do what it takes to claim it, and in their book that means running the traditional Democrats out of the party. According to their calculations they do not need us except when the national office is voted. Therefore they do not need to agree with anyone they don't really like since Democrats of all incomes, colors, creeds, lifestyles, loves, and cultures, will always vote to keep the GOP out of the White House. In short they feel they own the Party because they were willing to take it over by any means necessary.
We have had that debate in North Carolina for the last 4 presidential cycles. It gets uglier every time we have it and I have seen life long peace loving Democrats ready to pound their Neo-Liberal neighbors into the 18th green (where many feel they belong) over Neo-lib trads-offs like Environment vs jobs, Peace vs war Technology, sustainable economy versus affordable healthcare. I cannot put into civilized language what I'd say about it. I saw my pension, 2 careers, and many friends destroyed by the arrogance of Neo-Liberal hubris. In my view if you cannot support the New Deal and the Great Society programs without trading them away to benefit your 1% friends you are not a Democrat. I can think of many words for what you are in that case but none of them belong here.