Why the media and party elites are rushing to nominate the weakest candidate.
"To see the race as it really is one must see the Democratic and
Republicans parties as they really are. The story going round is that
they’re far apart. It’s true of cultural issues: guns; same-sex
marriage; abortion; immigration. But on matters of the distribution of
political and economic power and opportunity they are as close as can
be. By these I mean: global trade, fiscal austerity, deregulation,
information technology; use of military force and most of all what they
fight hardest to defend: pay to play politics. It is against this
bipartisan consensus of pay to play politics and neoliberal economics
that the country, including large chunks of each party’s base, now rises
up. This is nearly as true of Trump’s fascist putsch as it is of
Bernie’s progressive revolution."
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