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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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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So I think I understand you to believe that the Democratic party had a soul in the LBJ years, during the height of the Vietnam War. Is that correct? War on poverty, yes, but also war on Vietnam including the use of napalm. And destroying villages in order to save villages.
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Absolutely the Viet Nam war was deplorable. At the same time, LBJ’s domestic agenda was very much the traditional soul of the Democratic Party. One of the tragic ironies of history.

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Didn't mention the good of LBJ because Twitter is brief medium and you know I'm not brief. LOL The dichotomy brings me back to your discussion about yang and yin in American politics. Every good thing has a spot of darkness, and every dark thing a spot of light.