Ascendant Bernie

Given the insidious power of the corporate media to create and then shape election narratives that will directly boost profitability for their shareholders or use their kingmaker ability to destroy or boost candidates according to whose upper operatives' play golf at the same country clubs as the networks CEO's or both, it's prudent not to put too much into the MSM's Ascendant Bernie pieces that are everywhere these past couple of weeks. They have a clear and verifiable track record of being much too predictable in their flavor-of-the-week rollouts (from Beto to Harris to Warren to Buttegeig to Klobuchar). Meanwhile "frontrunner" Biden is really "the human jalopy of the race, whose engine has been squealing, parts have been flying off...and his ideology is jangly as hell too," as Maximillian Alvarez said recently on The Rising. And as he also points out, voters aren't dumb. When it really gets down to it there's no comparison in the candidates.

However, it does really appear that Bernie’s legitimately taking off now.

And the latest piece in Buzzfeed really captures what appears to be a unique and pivotal moment, an epiphany or refocusing, in this campaign on a precipice of yet another breakthrough to a new style of politics. Reading it I thought it was a natural discovery for the campaign to make because it had already been playing out for some time. Essentially it's about harnessing the power of the voters' stories and giving them the platform of a public airing. Bernie intuitively and deeply has understood and been explaining the malfeasance of the media for decades. It's a natural evolution to now have set up his own branch of media too.

With this now Bernie's done two things that are revolutionary in changing the course of politics going forward. First, he's refused to grovel to corporate donors for what is essentially bribery money, and turned the old guard ways on their heads with a double whammy: he showed campaigns can be well-funded without Wall St/Corporate America, and by only accepting small donations from individual donors he's earned the respect and support of the citizenry to such a degree that he continues to out-raise everyone in the race. Secondly, he's recognized the great void that is the corporate media not telling the stories of regular people, who invariably look to the news and not see their own lives reflected back to them. There's tons of very real shared pain across the country with respect to a large swath of the 99% living with serious economic deprivation as it relates to cut wages, longer hours, higher healthcare costs, overwhelming student/medical/consumer/college debt, etc that are not being shown by the media. This, more than anything on a subconscious level I think, has led to a fundamental mistrust of the media. Worse still, it's led to people feeling alone, self-blaming and responsible for these systemic-driven woes. By encouraging the sharing of these stories Bernie's at once striking back at the media for not doing their jobs while also galvanizing a gigantic electorate who perhaps for the first time in years to see themselves in these (their own) stories rather than the candidate's. This is how movements flourish. Goodbye to identity politics, hello to collectivized political action.

I've been of the mind for years now, that these two aspects, refusing corporate money and becoming the media, are essential and unavoidable for any campaign I'd ever be aligned with again and that this combination is absolutely the winning ticket. It's also of the best ways to wrest control from a dying, dysfunctional system keeping the Duopoly in place. That's why this piece was so encouraging to me (it's long but is one of the best on the breadth and imagination of the movement Bernie's trying to build):

From Ruby Cramer at Buzzfeed,
You
Don’t
Know
Bernie.

He doesn’t bother explaining why he’s here.

This is early on, late May, a few months into the race, but he is already of the belief that he is doing something extraordinary with his presidential campaign — something that’s never been done before. The trouble is describing it. There’s no word for this in modern politics. It is, he believes, “a new way to communicate with the American people” — though he won’t say this until later, and only when asked. Even now, long after he’s put this work at the center of his campaign — at his events, in ads, on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — he won’t talk about it much. He isn’t sure it’ll work, or if people are “picking up on what we’re trying to do here.” The media, he believes, has always believed, can’t fathom what’s at the heart of this.

So when he arrives at the house, a small mobile home 40 miles outside Montgomery, Alabama, over the Lowndes County line, in one of the poorest places in the country, with five reporters and his own camera crew, he steps through the front door, greets his host, and begins with no clear mention of what he hopes to accomplish here or how it will help him become president.

Pamela Rush, a 49-year-old mother of two, is showing him the problems with her home: the floor tilting visibly to one side, the sheets of plaster peeling off the wall, the broken pipes, the broken cabinetry. He stops in the room where her daughter sleeps. “Do you guys wanna…?” He motions for everyone to come closer. His videographer shuffles forward. On the bedside table, there’s a ventilation machine, the kind used for sleep apnea. A tube of ribbed plastic connects the device to a mask resting on the bedspread, which is patterned cheerily with tiny elephants. Because of mold in the house, Pamela’s daughter needs the device to breathe in her sleep. “How old is she?” the candidate asks. She’s 10. Pamela holds up the mask so he can see up close.

“Show them, not me,” he says, gesturing toward the camera.

She shows the camera the mask.

The visit continues like this. “Show them,” he keeps saying. “Show them.” He speaks only to ask questions, prompting Pamela to “explain” this or that, pointing her to an unseen audience on the other end of his camera lens. It’s like he’s directing his own video — except the video isn’t about him or his campaign or his policy agenda. He is, it seems, somewhere offscreen, an omniscient narrator, felt maybe, but not seen or heard. This is not a public event. There is no crowd. There is no podium, no speech. Mostly, there is silence. The leader of the political revolution — a man who has spent 50 years of his life trying to talk about his ideas — is not saying much at all.

Bernie Sanders is sorry for your troubles, but that’s not the reason he’s asking you to talk about them — which he is, everywhere he goes. He wants you to talk about your medical bill — the one you can’t pay. He wants you to talk about losing your house because you got sick. He wants you to talk about the payday loans you took out to keep your kid in school. About the six-figure student debt that’s always on your mind. About living off credit cards, or losing your pension, or working multiple jobs for wages that won’t be enough to support your family.

He would like you to talk about this publicly, in detail, and on camera. He will ask you to do this in front of reporters, or in a room full of strangers at one of his town halls. Of course, the Bernie Digital Team will be there — they are always there — taping your story on camera, or streaming it in real-time to his own mass broadcast system on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. On any given day, he is capable of reaching millions of people.

“Who wants to share their story?” he’ll say. “Don’t be embarrassed. Millions of people are in your boat.”

He has, it turns out, built an entire presidential campaign around an open invitation to speak — to talk plainly about the “reality of life” in this country — to be “loud so everyone can hear.”

His suggestion, by asking you to speak up about your private anxieties, many of them financial, is that you and the millions of people in the proverbial audience will begin to see your struggles not as personal failings, but systemic ones. He is less interested in explicitly presenting solutions than naming the problem — that “we have millions of people in the richest country in the history of the world who are struggling every single day,” which is a phrase he repeats daily, almost like an exhortation, as if to grab the American working class by its shoulders. He doesn’t deal in pity or reassurance. Yes, he’ll give hugs — one arm, from the side, other hand still clutching the mic. But mostly he’ll just listen and nod, gaze lowered. Or he’ll shake his head at the crowd, like can you believe this? And then, from the gut, a clipped scoff, like of course you can believe it. That’s the point. He has heard your story before, because it’s all part of the same story: a broken system, driven by profit and greed, built to reinforce the notion that if you’re bright enough, if you work hard enough, then you can travel the path to the middle class. And if you don’t make it there…well, maybe you’re the problem. And who wants to talk about that?

He believes his presidential campaign can, he says, help people “feel less alone.”

And then the Wall St Journal had this, Bernie Sanders’s Loyal Voters Could Keep Him in Race for Months:
Polls show Vermont senator’s base is more dedicated than that of any other 2020 Democrat
.

According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll from October, Mr. Sanders’s supporters are the most sure that they will vote for their favored candidate. Some 57% of his backers say they will definitely stick with him. By comparison, half of former Vice President Joe Biden’s supporters and one-third of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s supporters say they will stick with their current top choice.

Both Mr. Biden and Ms. Warren had more support nationwide from Democratic primary voters than Mr. Sanders in the October poll. Polling averages from early-voting states currently don’t show the Vermont senator leading, according to RealClearPolitics data.

Still, Mr. Sanders could collect delegates out of primaries and caucuses even if he doesn’t win them outright. That is because to qualify for delegates, a candidate needs to cross a 15% threshold at the congressional and/or statewide level. Mr. Sanders hits or exceeds that in the majority of early state polls...

“He’s the only legitimate person, all the others are full of s---,” said Milton J. Espinoza, 72, a pharmacist from Queens, N.Y.

If Mr. Sanders isn’t the nominee, “I will go out in the streets, and I will protest, I will quit my job. And I will say something until he’s the nominee,” said Tracey Taeger, 30, a grocery-store employee from Clinton Township, Mich.

“There’s no future because the planet is going to, you know, become really uninhabitable,” she said, referring to Mr. Sanders’s $16.3 trillion plan to combat climate change.

Despite their openness to a fight in Milwaukee, none of the voters the Journal spoke to at campaign events around the country was willing to vote for President Trump in a general election if Mr. Sanders wasn’t the nominee. A handful, including Mr. Espinoza and Ms. Taeger, said they might stay home or vote for a third-party candidate, but most said they would back the Democrats’ pick.

Mr. Sanders has said he would vote for the Democratic nominee in a general election if it isn’t him.

Alexis Huscko, a 26-year-old stay-at-home parent from Muscatine, Iowa, has been to several rallies with her family. She said her 2-year-old daughter sometimes breaks into a frequent rally chant: “Hey, hey, ho, ho corporate greed has got to go.”

Ms. Huscko said she voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein in 2016 after Mr. Sanders lost the nomination. But she said she wouldn’t vote for a third-party candidate again.

“We absolutely have to get Donald Trump out of there,” Ms. Huscko said.

I think in some ways one can interpret the selection of quotes in this piece is to again paint Sanders' supporters as too rigid and fanatical. On the other hand it's this kind of passion and commitment that wins elections.

Fox News poll finds a wealth tax is far more popular than Trump's wall

Poll respondents were asked if they strongly or somewhat favored or opposed several proposals that 2020 candidates on both sides of the aisle are supporting. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) wealth tax got the biggest backing, with 68 percent of poll-takers saying they favored the proposal, 45 percent of them strongly. Trump's promise to build a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border meanwhile got 44 percent support, with 52 percent voicing their opposition.

In fact, the only thing less popular than the wall was replacing all private health insurance with a government-run program, which Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and other Democrats are championing as Medicare-for-all. It got just 41 percent of respondents to say they favored the program, with 53 percent saying they were opposed.

Two positive Murdoch pieces that got through? Or is it part of the aforementioned ploy in this age of deep financial dependence on stopping at nothing to drive ratings in order to keep advertisers happy? Or is it another trick in the digital, the scroll-the-headlines-but-not-read-the-story, but in the reverse this time, as the editors play with the language and select quotes to give the desired effect on the reader of things, which in this case is to make the voter wary the single-mindedness of Bernie's rabid supporters behind a veil of saluting Bernie's omnipotent strength.

And the whole "Warren's wealth tax plan" is another typical corporate media trick to make it seem like it was her idea alone, ignoring Bernie has been for such legislation for decades. And then combined with a favorable stat for her while Bernie's M4A doesn't do as well (the heavy insurance company propaganda about the "choice" lie of which is explained just ahead in Wendell Potter's tweets and the Intercepted podcast) is purposeful in making it seem to readers that Bernie isn't doing as well.

Former Cigna VP turned whistleblower Wendell Potter takes on Petey Boy's corporate, insurance industry-generated criticism of M4A and the insidiousness of marketers to distort the language to manipulate voters, in this case framing it as "choice":

More here with Jeremy Scahill interviewing Potter and also another one with an author who wrote a book on McKinsey, "Capitalism’s Consigliere: McKinsey’s Work for Insurance Companies, ICE, Drug Manufacturers, and Despots"

Of the many aspects of my experience with Occupy that effected me deeply, I still love the really great slogans chanted and paraded on signs. There's not a soul in the world now it seems who doesn't implicitly know what the 1% is (even Business Insider spouts, "The mainstreaming of Occupy Wall Street: How rethinking American capitalism became the most important debate of the 2010s," though they give too much credit to business leaders who just co-opt the language and then integrate into their own plans to mitigate the backlash).

You. Are. Not. Alone.
You. Are. Not. A. Loan.

We Are Unstoppable
Another World Is Possible.

Bernie is speaking very clearly about the fundamental way this system of unbridled capitalism drives despair, self-blame abuse and loneliness. It's a gamble. Because for a desensitized, overly stimulated and overly-ironic population it is predicated on people first acknowledging the grasp of this systemic monster, then stepping away from it, to be able to look at it anew in order to see clearly the real enemy to all of us.

To do that he's relying on appeals to the most basic human instincts, empathy and compassion, which require the selflessness and higher calling of being able to recognize one's self in any other. His campaign has tapped into the deep reservoir of economic discontent and are focused on sharing these stories. I think he wins big on this revolutionary challenge.

(NYC lost an Occupy Brother yesterday. Rest in Power, Kitty...)

All power to the people.

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Mark from Queens's picture

something else that is almost exactly what I've been thinking or have held as a philosophy.

Whether it's been about rapacious landlords, the recognition that this will take standing in solidarity with those who are not like me, a relentless focus on the economic terrorism of unbridled capitalism using very black and white, easy to understand examples, expanding post offices to include public banking, and so much more - he seems to be covering almost all of it. Not everything. But damn close.

Giving platforms to voiceless people in an age of media cutbacks and outrageous shirking of any democracy's safeguarding through a "Fourth Estate" is revolutionary and could really go to great lengths in both exposing the rot of the corporate media and galvanizing his movement even further.

Every time I see one of these I'm riveted, filled with righteous anger and moved to want to see this through.

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Winning CA would be HUGE

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        From, fall 1969, when I was first able to register to vote I have observed a steady trend that suggested we would eventually enter the Idiocracy. Of course that's a movie from 2006, so the "Idiocracy" is a bit of post-diction. I have only just skimmed your content, so this is to make it easier for me to come back.

        From my professional point of view I have difficulty with those that choose to be superficial and refuse to deal with Reality. Only the likes of Bernie and AOC are on target. I suspect the "mainstream" will once again loop us through another four years and beyond of Idiocracy.

RIP

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Hope you have been well. Nice to have your voice back on c99p. Pleasantry

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Great piece. I know a lot of people who feel that this may be the last election in which we will have a chance to change the fundamental paradigm of our politics, away from corporate-backed, neoliberal politicians in both parties who represent only the interests of mega-corporations, while imposing austerity on the rest of us, to a truly diverse, multipolar, politics based on representing the interests of ordinary citizens.

Unfortunately, we've seen what happened to Labor in the UK, and I fear the same game plan will be used against Bernie to prevent him from winning the nomination. The signs of a re-run of 2016, only worse, are already starting to rear their ugly head with voter purges occurring in major states like Georgia, Ohio and California. I expect to see the same again in New York.

But we have to have hope. The alternative in situations like the one we face, as history has shown us, is that if the governments will not serve the interests of their people, populists on the right will gather momentum, and we will end up all living in authoritarian, militaristic fascist states (either through military coups or right wing populist takeovers) ever more bent on wars over diminishing resources while the climate crisis we face ramps up to an ever greater degree. One only has to look at the situation in Europe to see what will eventually come to our shores in the next few years, absent a dramatic change toward a politics based on providing for the welfare of human beings over the interests of the rich and powerful.

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@Steven D @Steven D We don't have a similar situation except that middle America is as pissed off at the Democrats as the middle and north part of England was pissed off at Labour.

And Bernie is not ascending in Iowa.

A new 2020 poll shows President Donald Trump leading every top Democratic challenger in the key swing state of Iowa.

An Emerson poll released Wednesday had Trump besting four front-runners who are vying for the Democratic Party's nomination: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

Buttigieg, the youngest candidate in the race, fared the best in a head-to-head matchup with Trump. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor trailed the president by just 1 percentage point. Forty-six percent of registered voters polled said they'd back Trump compared, with the 45 percent who would support Buttigieg.

Biden also wasn't too far behind Trump. The former vice president was defeated by 4 percentage points, as 49 percent of Iowa voters said they'd cast their ballot for Trump, compared with 45 percent who'd vote for Biden.

Senators Sanders and Warren did the worst in head-to-head matchups with Trump. Both lawmakers lost to the president 50 to 43 percent. That's a slight shift from an earlier Emerson poll of Iowa voters that showed Sanders leading Trump by 1 percentage point while Warren and Biden trailed him by 2 percentage points.

On edit. Jobu just below me is right. Impeachment may be our Brexit.

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@davidgmillsatty
of oligarch private fundraiser dough on getting up out of the opening gate. But for a caucus event, will he be able to get (mostly older) folks to stand around for hours? Bernie's campaign knocked on 20k doors a few of weeks ago. That's just going to intensify. Not to sound too cynical but I really just can't see this guy being able to do anything comparable, and ultimately going anywhere at all.

A month and a half out in 2016 polls had Bernie -17. He tied, which for all intents and purposes meant he won as the huge underdog. In fact, fuck it, he did win. The Des Moines Register, which endorsed the $hill, called the whole thing a debacle (read: Bernie should have won outright).

Taibbi was talking about how the race could look re: delegates. The difference will be, paraphrasing, that while all of the other candidates look like they'll take some hits along the way (i.e. both Warren and Petey in SC, and Biden the Jalopy eventually falling completely to pieces) Bernie has the machinery, money and energy to steady him through at a high level the whole way through.

I think you're correct that the desire for the MSM to tie Bernie to Corbyn will just fail spectacularly when put to scrutiny. They may have seemed comparable on the surface but the situations are vastly different in every way (i.e. Brexit, the the relentless, untrue anti-Semitism smears).

Impeachment, however, could be a wild card. Will be interesting to see how Bernie plays that. The hapless, monomaniacal Dems could blow it for everybody.

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@Steven D

Corbyn isn't Jewish - Bernie is. The doubletalk will be a lot more obvious.

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@TheOtherMaven His problem will be that he will be seen as a champion of diversity, and ID politics, and urban America; and white middle America, white suburban America and white rural America is sick of it. He may be more polarizing than Clinton was.

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@Steven D
Have you heard that Christine Quinn is the Vice Chair is the NY DNC?

Think I heard Jimmy Dore do a segment on her, which was about an appearance she made on MSNBC, where she was asked about her support for her former boss Bloomberg (which was lukewarm). It was tiresome watching her became unhinged in her disdain for Tulsi. The Democratic party is so unabashed about their hatred of her.

She wound up criticizing Bloomberg though, basically saying his late entry and tepid apology for NYPD racial profiling will make it difficult for him. She’s also on record criticizing Tom Perez.

So I’m not sure how she’ll impact the NY primary or what her personal preferences are. My feeling about her remains that she’s a moderate insider who could be problematic when the chips are down.

They fucking stole it here last time. Bernie was within the margin of error I the exit polls. But then within 15 minutes the media was claiming Her was up 16 points or something. Even revisiting that time makes my bloom boil still. I found stories everywhere I went that corroborate the DNC used their shared voter data base to purge or disenfranchise likely Bernie voters.

I think we have to keep an eye on her, find out more and begin looking closer at who is actually overseeing this shit.

Hope you and the family are well. And lemme know if you’re coming into town at some point.

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The Dems really could have been sensing for a while that they've finally had the reigns pulled from them with all their Neoliberal flunkies failing in some form or another as Bernie's might remains undiminished. Impeachment could be the Neoliberals' stop gap.

I still think his campaign is the force to be reckoned with in the primary. Bernie's the marathon man; he'll have the goods to endure straight through workman-like, while the others run out of breath trying to stay astride.

I do think there's legitimate concern about to what degree the $hillary sycophants spread across the MSM have succeeded in denigrating Bernie via relentless lies and misconceptions that may impact his reach this time around. They're still at it and it may just be enough to chip away at him, but I don't think so in the end.

It's going to be fascinating to watch the Dem insiders react when/if he gets the nomination. Conversely, it'll be a pretty dark road ahead if he's cheated, in so many ways.

Bernie's the only one who will not get walked all over by the Orange Goon. I think in that scenario Bernie will rise even higher to give a master class in political debate that could reset the whole thing going forward.

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@Mark from Queens
being from "far left Democrats". Also from "socialist Democrats".
I wish Tulsi had voted :no" instead of "present". She is done as a Democrat either way.

My Congressman voted "yes" as did most. So I'll be voting *R) for Congress next year. Don't know what Durbin and Duckworth will do in the Senate, but I'm not holding my breath.
My vote goes forever against those who put Party against their Oath of Office.

Yeah. Maybe this was done to stop Bernie. and he stepped into the trap.

Meanwhile, I read that Pelosi is not sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate anytime soon. Perhaps she's waiting for October? What a piece of shit!

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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...BuzzFeed? Really???

That's like the lowest circle of high-school-Britney-McNews-Hell to date.

First there was the National Enquirer...
...then there was USA Today...
...then there was AOL...
...then came FOX News, of course...
...and now there's Buzzfeed, where Royal Family gossip is of equal stature to environmental calamity, and HEYYY!, if you tell us what your Total Fantasy Fast-Food Experience would be, we'll tell you you WHICH DISNEY PRINCESS THAT MAKES YOU, YAAAAYYY!!!

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@The Liberal Moonbat

ya gotta get your insights wherever you can. The Received Wisdom is that Buzzfeed is BS, which is the only reason they can get away with running a piece that's so blatantly pro-Bernie.

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@The Liberal Moonbat
is all I'm going to say.

To be honest I'm not that familiar with Buzzfeed; just thought I'd fully credit the publication of a really fine article. Can hardly keep up with the rapidly changing partisan nature of things.

Don't get me wrong - I think propaganda (along with Money In Politics) will always be the biggest obstacle to ever getting the change we hope for. But we're in an Upside Down time.

The piece on its own merit is outstanding.

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@The Liberal Moonbat

Lots of sites that I never used to visit are now the ones telling us the truth. Read the article and see if you still disagree with the site.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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There's so much to chew on here, and if Bernie is managing to show people they are not alone in the miseries they're suffering, the whole movement is also showing the passion and numbers and determination of Americans who are unequivocally for a complete structural overhaul of a decrepit, crumbling and unsustainable system. Thanks for your very meaty post.

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for reinforcing how Bernie tirelessly pushes for enriching the possibility of something better. Whether or not he is ascendant on the political stage, he will have influenced many in a lofty way. And who knows where his contribution will take humanity.

And thank you for your contribution to a better future for your kids and all others.

[video:https://youtu.be/L9KvlZWQzRA]

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I still don't trust the DNC though. Remember the ruling in the suit against them in 2016. "We're a private institution entitled to make whatever rules we want", and the judge agreed.

They have a legal right to cheat is the take away. Bernie needs to go into the convention with the needed delegates on the first vote or he's toast. I think Bernie would do better in the general election than the primary. In other words, the corporate democraps are the big hurdle.

Thanks for the essay. Love your writing and take on the issue.

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