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In reply to the discussion: After Attacking Warren, Obama Having Trouble Selling TPP to Fellow Dems [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Even if Bernie somehow survives the gauntlets of greed that will seek to batter him into oblivion, he is unlikely to have the support he needs to accomplish his mission in 2017. Getting Bernie into office is only the beginning of the solution. In fact, the only immediate advantage it may bring is that when the arrows rain down on us, we will know they aren't coming from the White House.
I could envision Bernie struggling and failing to bring about great and widely popular social changes in his first 2 years & being blocked at every turn by the Corpo-Congresscritters (of both parties). And at each such point Bernie makes clear what he was doing and who denied the public what they wanted and needed, then using this basis to put a new and reformed DNC on the trail of electing the leftists Bernie will need to get his stuff through.