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/ 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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6/ How will this play out over the next 4 years? If they continue to suppress progressives in congressional as well as prez primaries, & another establishment darling is raised up by the political-media industrial complex in 4 yrs, there will be no more empowered Left in America.
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7/ In that case, the corporate duopoly will have taken the America government hostage in a way that will be difficult to change for at least another generation, if ever. I don’t know what the answer is but I know the question should be alive in our hearts and minds.
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