2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Rising !!! - HuffPo [View all]Babel_17
(5,400 posts)And nothing demonstrates your inevitability like having to twist arms. Next up, outspending your opponents 10 to 1, enabled by fund raising from the 1%'s institutions, to convince the 99% that you're their inevitable candidate.
Yeah, our party leadership has its collective head screwed on tight, ... not. I understand the desire to start celebrating as early as possible having arrived at a great candidate for the Presidency. But the doubts surrounding this inevitability mantra are like a ghost at that feast.
I think the leadership is waking up to the fact that if they keep helping to push this meme, to the detriment of other candidates, and meaningful debates, they risk a real reversal of their own personal political fortunes should things turn sour.
They wouldn't be able to just point at the process and say that's how the cookie crumbled, they'd have helped abrogate the power of the process. Political parties can run smashingly smooth after you pack away the dissenters off to the kid's table. Till the day that BS doesn't fly with the dissenters, and their numbers have grown to a tipping point.
This is that day.