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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4376437" data-attributes="member: 56035">ahh speak of the devil first chris hedges article i read in a while and hes talking about democrats anti democracy efforts to preselect corrupt candidates like al gore, kerry, obama, clinton.  and hes saying if bernie gets the nomination then the media will prefer trump over bernie.  its looking like the 2016 republican primaries:"The Democrats, especially after Ralph Nader’s 2000 presidential run, have erected numerous obstacles to block progressives inside and outside the party. They make ballot access difficult or impossible for people of color. They lock third-party candidates and often progressives in the Democratic Party, such as <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dennis-Kucinich" target="_blank">Dennis Kucinich</a>, out of the presidential campaign debates. They turn campaigns into two-year-long spectacles that cost billions of dollars. They use <a href="https://people.howstuffworks.com/superdelegate.htm" target="_blank">superdelegates</a> to fix the nominating process. They employ scare tactics to co-op those who should be the natural allies of third parties and progressive political movements."and this part he goes into why liberals keep supporting democrats:"The repeated cowardice of the liberal class, which backs a Democratic Party that in Europe would be considered a far-right party, saw it squander its credibility. Its rhetoric proved empty. Its moral posturing was a farce. It fought for nothing. In assault after assault on the working class it was complicit. If liberals — supposedly backers of parties and institutions that defend the interests of the working class — had abandoned the Democratic Party after President Bill Clinton pushed through the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, Trump would not be in the White House. Why didn’t liberals walk out of the Democratic Party when Clinton and the Democratic Party leadership, including Biden, passed NAFTA? Why didn’t they walk out when the Clinton administration gutted welfare? Why didn’t they walk out when Clinton pushed through the 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act, which abolished the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, designed to prevent the kind of banking crisis that trashed the global economy in 2008? Why didn’t they walk out when year after year the Democratic Party funded and expanded our endless wars? Why didn’t they walk out when the Democrats agreed to undercut due process and habeas corpus? Why didn’t they walk out when the Democrats helped approve the warrantless wiretapping and monitoring of American citizens? Why didn’t the liberals walk out when the party leadership refused to impose sanctions on Israel for its war crimes, enact serious environmental and health care reform or regulate Wall Street? At what point will liberals say “Enough”? At what point will they fight back?"The Democratic elites scrambled, successfully, to deny Sanders the 2016 nomination.The last desperate gasp of the Democratic Party establishment is to buy the election."</blockquote>

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