“Of Course They Don’t Care”
The elitist corporate Democrats prefer to hand presidential and Supreme Court tipping power over to a quasi-, proto-, neo- or real fascist than to be a social democratic party of the people. That much is clear from their insistence on running a hopelessly corrupt, politically incompetent, and uninspiring right-wing Democrat named Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump. For all his serious flaws from a seriously Left perspective, Bernie Sanders might well have been able to leap past the usual right wing vote-tampering in key Electoral College states (maybe not – more on that below) to defeat Trump. Sanders would have had a much better chance because he didn’t share the neoliberal Clinton Democrats’ contempt for white majority working class and rural folks – the “heartland” people Mrs. Clinton foolishly smeared as “deplorables” as she struggled to resurrect to the Obama coalition.
Sanders ran in accord with majority progressive opinion on numerous key policy issues For that he was treated with the standard disdain “elite” dollar Dems have long held for progressives in their party’s ranks. The Robert Rubin-Clinton-Obama-Citibank-Council on Foreign Relations Democrats’ scorn for their party’s left-wing is written all over WikiLeaks and numerous other sources including the editorial pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post.
(I have already penned several lengthy accounts of these Democrats’…