How the Democratic Establishment Manipulates Us

[Rebkeh]

Over at DK is a righteous rant from JosephK74
http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1471760

Here's a snippet:

It’s jaw dropping to hear “democrats” actively deny the relationship between cultural politics and economics as if the link doesn’t exist. But again, the reason is transparent. Acknowledging such a thing would require acknowledging the big fat corrupt campaign finance system in the room and we can’t have that, can we?

Indeed.

[guillaumeb]

1. An excellent post. Recommended.

And the crux of the blog post, for me, is:

Because they don’t think we’ll do anything to address the issues they deal with daily.

That is why people do not vote. While I personally disagree with non-voting as a strategy, I understand the frustration of always having to vote for the lesser of two evils.

Second:

Second, we’ve heard people make the GROTESQUELY STUPID argument that because Sanders is unlikely to be successful in getting his proposals through, we shouldn’t support him. I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a more idiotic argument. It took conservatives DECADES to accomplish their goals and so change the field of politics that even (establishment) dems became republicans. They only accomplished this by continuously fighting for their platform and articulating it in public. No one is under any illusions that a left revolution such as Sanders is proposing will happen overnight or tomorrow. What’s symptomatic is that Clintonians argue we shouldn’t even try. It’s both bizarre and revealing.

The GOP actually started their very long term strategy in the 1960s when Richard Mellon Scaife started funding right wing think tanks and media operations. The strategy was massively successful, and this media transformation is why generations of Americans grow up believing that Reagan was a great President, and the Civil Rights Act fixed the problem with racism.