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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: Report Of High Level DNC Infiltration In N. Carolina Sanders Campaign [View all]Ford_Prefect
(8,639 posts)These were not outsider errors. Aisha Dew is not an NC outsider. There were and are real attempts at subverting the NC Bernie Sanders campaign. Pay Attention!
I'm 63 and have seen far more NC Democratic Party insider crap than I thought could ever be. Heck, they even helped scuttle the last Democratic governor because she was too progressive on things like public school funding. There are 2 Democratic parties in NC. The establishment and everyone else who's NOT republican. The Establishment party believe they have a better more moderate view than the rest of us less privileged peons. They speak in terms of negotiation with the hard right and making sure business is "understood" by government. They meet at the country clubs and in the board rooms, rather than the local schools, churches, and senior centers. They are the crew that paid $250 (some say more) a ticket to eat bad chicken and hob-nob with Hillary's road show.
The same people have decided for the rest of us Black, White and Hispanic Democrats in NC just who we all should vote for and have engaged in the same snarky campaign practices as reported elsewhere along the caucus and primary trail. I live in the most liberal county in NC and you would be shocked to see how invisible the Bernie signs were just prior to the primary. It wasn't the GOP that did that.
Bernie met 9000 people in person in Greensboro long before Hillary ever showed her face to a selected non-paying crowd larger than 200 here. I was there and saw it happen. We didn't have HRC shock troops controlling every seat and every remark to the press.
It is not news to anyone that DWS and others in the HRC machine are busy undermining Progressives as a whole and Bernie in particular. That they would stoop to the level alleged in the videos doesn't surprise me. They are the Pros after all. I know a few things about the insider network in NC Democratic party and they DO play it that way whenever it's convenient. That there would NOT be collusion would be the surprise in this case. The national Democratic party has long viewed NC democrats as plucked chickens to be harvested. They have NO respect for on the ground organizers or local constituencies either. They much prefer the connected and protected for reasons that should be all too obvious. Wasn't the best advice to the career minded to "network"?