http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-joan-wal...

Blogger Matt Bruenig was fired from Demos after correctly exposing Joan Walsh as being intellectually dishonest and calling Neera Tanden a scumbag. Actually, he probably should have just called her a hypocrite.

Bruenig said Tanden “tried to starve me and my mother because she wanted to be in Democratic politics,” and advanced the position that Tanden supported welfare reform in the 1990s, when Bill Clinton was president. Bruenig has been critical of Clinton in his writings, calling her "an enemy of the poor" and "a garbage rich person."

Tanden tweeted at Bruenig that “having been on welfare myself, don’t need lectures on this topic from you.”

Bruenig replied with this tweet: “Scumbag Neera uses welfare when she needs it then takes away from others when they need it. Disgusting.”

Lost in the bruhaha, is that what Bruenig says is the truth. Instead, the entire flare up is being touted by Demos, Bruenigs former employer, as a case of progressives disagreeing.

The statement also highlighted the ongoing feud between factions of the Democratic Party, saying “it has been a particularly challenging place for progressives on opposite sides during the Democratic primary, and we know that there is a Sanders versus Clinton overlay to the Twitter exchange on Thursday night.”

What Demos doesn't evidently understand and the Democratic Party willfully ignores and doesn't want the masses to understand, is that there are no progressives on opposite sides.

There are progressives on Bernie's side and corporatists on the Democratic Party's side.

THAT is why Bruenig rightfully can call Tanden a scumbag and accuse Joan Walsh as being intellectually dishonest. Demos is being dishonest in its portrayal of this dissension as well. Evidently, Demos is run by lying scumbags because they fired Bruenig for telling the truth then lied themselves in their depiction of what is going on here.

There is no disagreement between progressives. The progressives are all united behind Bernie.

This, in a nutshell, is why so many Bernie supporters like myself cannot and will not vote for Hillary. She's not a progressive, she's a corporatist. She's against everything progressives stand for. She knows this. The party knows this. Walsh and Tanden know this. Hence Walsh being dishonest and Tanden being a scumbag.

The progressives are not divided. If any of them break ranks and vote for Hillary, it's only out of fear of Trump. Progressives are united behind Bernie. We're quarreling with the corporate shills and sellouts.