@MrWebster in the struggle between the local and the national.

In just more casual reading election results, it seems thee most dramatic victories were by candidates who got no party support. Shit, Neera "no $15 min wage" Tandem even disparaged Tim Carter in tweet responding to David Sirota.

https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/929786952525762561

This is certainly not good for the party as it is covering up the corruption and ineptitude of establishment democrats. Kyle from Secular Talk cautioning democrats as a poll of actual voters from the last mid term indicate a statistical tie between dems and gopers.

@Azazello gives me some hope.

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@Mike Taylor

They don't care if we know this either. They showed us that during the latest election when they refused to help any candidate that were running on the same issues that Bernie did. Carter is one example when he called himself a socialist democrat.
There were a few others that they didn't help out financially, but they didn't just start doing this in this election. They have let republicans run unopposed instead of running a candidate that didn't have their values.

The polls showed that Bernie had a better chance of beating Trump than Herheinous did, but they did not want him to win. Period. This is so obvious.

Good comment, Mike

Establishment Dems are like suicide bombers. They would rather divide/sabotage the party than to risk an insurgency from the left being able to unify the party and gain power.
Republican fiscal policy is more beneficial to centrist Dems than what's coming from the left. Stuff like Medicare for all, Medicare negotiating for lower drug prices, tuition-free college (the transaction tax on Wall Street) would be costly to big party donors, along with the 401Ks of centrist Dems that rely on the profits of Big Pharma, health insurance co,s, and Wall Street etc.
Establishment Dems would rather lose to republicans than to risk an insurgency from the left being able to unify the party and gain power

@lotlizard

The insufferable arrogance of these have-too-much-es! Makes one wonder when the tumbrils start rolling....

“One of the reasons that inequality has probably gone up in our society is that people are being treated closer to the way that they’re supposed to be treated.”

@The Wizard @The Wizard

Dunno, but I suspect he may be waiting until it's closer to the general - or until he gets blacked out of the corporate media again.

Nobody else in politics at this level is often on the corporate media saying to those restricted to it that the very basic living wage, public higher education, universal health-care, etc., notions of a government working in, rather then against, the public interest, is entirely possible, despite the flood of corporate-political propaganda of those ever-more-rapidly draining the richest country in the world for their own destructive purposes of global dominance.

Nobody else dares to speak out about corporate interests and billionaires (which Dems are now forbidden by at least one billionaire to even mention, on pain of having their allowances cut) on the corporate media. And censorship is being heavily exerted on the internet as well, of course.

Ideas are dangerous to TPTB, and TPTB are dangerous to those with the courage to publicize such ideas.

I think Bernie will do whatever he can to keep in a position to continue this reminder to Americans of what government should and could be, as close to the next general as he can manage when, I have no doubt, the media black-out and smearing of him and his ideas will appear.

One problem is that the internet may not be viable at all by that point, and a lot of volunteer shoe leather will be needed. But somebody has to be on corporate media to Keep America Awake - they snooze, we all lose.

Edit to add two words I missed the first time, lol. Sigh...

The DNC is doing everything possible to create the conditions for the formation of a new party. The symptom is clear, they have given up on being inclusive, and instead are circling the wagons and shooting the unfaithful.

There are lots of possibilities, from the Greens to the DSA, but I'm afraid that a small outsider party will not have much chance of succeeding. The DSA's membership has tripled lately and that's a very good sign. I think that middle America would have a hard time with that, just because of the label.

In some other countries the formation of a new dominant party is normal. But it is usually formed around a well-known leader. That happened in Italy- Berlusconi and in Russia- President Putin. The movement to a new party has a much better chance of reaching early critical mass with a popular figure at it's head.

I think that Bernie could do it. And he would draw some of the best progressive minds in the country to his support.

If you agree with me, I suspect that most here do, contact Bernie and let him know that you want him to form a new party.