Picketty: A centrist Dem would lose

We should know this by now given the last election, when Clinton lost to the worst candidate in history. This story provides that hard data from Thomas Picketty's paper "Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality & the Changing Structure of Political Conflict." This is largely due to the left abandoning the poor and working class, instead going for the elite's big money. To win this demo back the Party needs strong, authentic fighters for these classes. Sanders and Warren meet this requirement, Biden, Harris and Booker do not. Want to win Dems? Follow his advice.

"Now, why hasn't the Democratic Party heeded Piketty's warning? I think you already know why. To quote Upton Sinclair: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.' The donor base of the Democratic Party consists of a lot of pretty rich people who prefer the Democratic Party to be left on social issues but right on economic issues. The party elite see these wealthy folks as part of the party, and don't want to nominate a candidate who accurately sees them as class enemies. I wonder sometimes if there are Democratic Party eggheads working for the DNC who are aware of Piketty's prophecy but are not willing to risk evolving the party, lest they lose their benefactors."