Last week I reread Shirer's 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'. Comparing Trump

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26. They aren't any different...

... or Obama wouldn't hustling for Fast-track authorization of that corporate coup d'etat masquerading as a "Trade Bill."

The establishment of super delegates in '82 may have been prompted by McGovern's candidacy 10 years earlier, but Carter's election despite the wishes of party elite, very likely sealed the deal, and there is no question that the they sandbagged him at every opportunity.

Despite what True Believers preach, those at the top don't give a rat's ass about actual democracy – I would refer you to the writings of Allen Dulles on that topic – they care only about amassing power. Or, to put it more succinctly, achieving dominion over the lives of others. "Power" is just a more vague and less directly threatening term; they're the same fuckin' thing.