Dem establishment disdains the Sanders revolution for the same reason that the Sanders revolution disdains the Dem establishment: “If you win, I lose power.” Nothing ever really changes. The story of America is a constant reenactment of the struggle between elites and the people
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The irony is that the Sanders revolution, not a corporatized Democratic elite, IS a return to the soul of the Democratic Party. I’m old enough to remember when it had one so I know.

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You were alive when FDR was president?
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Ha! Pre-Democratic Leadership Council.
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I wonder when/where that "soul" went!
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During 1990s the Democratic party started playing the same corporate game the Repub party was playing; so much money was flowing into the political system at that time that it felt it had to. Clinton formed Democratic Leadership Council. Good intentions perhaps but a bad result.
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Me too!
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Exactly! And he’s the only candidate in lineage with the real Democrats of our 1950s-1970s youth and young adulthood. PS. What is wrong with our boomer peers? Why aren’t most of them feeling the bern? If we can persuade them it will clinch the nom and win in November for #Bernie.
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I think your wrong here. Sanders inspires hate, anger, demonization, and a mindset of scarcity. They group small business with huge corporations and blame them all for having something they do not. The solutions are backwards and based in a take from you to give to me mentality.
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Then there needs to be a better leader for the cause.
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Bernie is a return to principles that the Democratic Party has always espoused but never actually followed. Except maybe FDR. I'm not sure about FDR: Did he really want to help people, or was he just forced into it by a threat of revolt?
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