How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win.

[LiberalLovinLug]

309. "He blamed it on "the establishment", whereas the actual blame lies with the GOP."

How can you even say this with a straight face? I can't see your face so maybe you can't.

I guess if you haven't noticed the shift to the right by both parties in the last 30 or 40 years then there is no point in arguing with someone wearing such intensely coloured glasses.

Are Republicans particularly subservient to the corporate classes? Of course. That's a given. If they didn't exist it would be some other party, probably called the Conservative Party, because the wealthy will always have at least one party in the game, that goes for every country in the world.

But that does not negate the shift of the establishment Democrats towards a more corporate friendly party. Where do you think the Third Way came from? Bill Clinton started the shift with that Third Way concept of bending over backwards to the corporate wealthy classes to gain access and theoretically gain some voice within those boardrooms. Including literally gaining voices within those boardrooms via speeches. And, like the trickle down theory, all this new chumminess would result in the corporate classes seeing that they had an alternative.

Why should Sanders ignore that reality? That would make him just as disingenuous as some of the other candidates. There is too much influence by "the establishment" the incestuous relationship of lobbyists and politicians. And that crosses party lines...especially after the Clinton's Third Way was adopted as the guiding principle of the DLC.

You wanted him to ignore everything he has been fighting for his whole political life, or to put an exception on that?


What Elephant?