1/ There was a time when the Left didn’t have to fight for power so much within the Democratic Party; it wasn’t treated like a political stepchild the way it is now.
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2/ According to @mtaibbi the establishment chooses every four years who they will promote four years hence; clearly Kamala, Pete and Amy are the Democratic chosen ones.
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3/ The new book “Lucky” displays how the Democratic establishment did more to choose the candidate than to pave the way for real democracy in its primary season.

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4/ Clinton, Obama and the DNC were not going to let Bernie - or any other progressive - have any power that was inconvenient to their purposes.
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4/ They never got over McGovern. To them that was the problem, and they were never going to let it happen again. Serving the “will of the people” is like a quaint saying to them; it means very little in operational terms.
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5/ Having been there myself, I can tell you the Democratic presidential primary is a multibillion dollar piece of performance art. It is a piece of kabuki theatre, written and directed by those who don’t appear on the stage while the play is going on.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
They also chose their opponent and stuck us with Trump. Why anyone trusts these manipulative a-holes ia beyond me. politico.com/magazine/story/… salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hil…
Replying to @marwilliamson
“The DNC/Political Establishment did more to dictate rather than facilitate the 2020 election.” This was not only wrong-it was a clear threat to our democracy.
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