Joe Biden announces 8 day No Malarkey bus tour through Iowa

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121. Nate's right about those who fool themselves that factional

feelings are shared by the large majority of Democrats. We see that displayed here all the time.

What he didn't mention, and I believe is huge, is that, due to an uber-righteous commitment to their chosen leader, most of those people have no respect for what others think, even hold everyone who disagrees with them in contempt.

While they speak of constantly of "the people," that combination of conceits actually creates an excuse, constantly and determinedly grabbed, for trying to set aside the will of the people to get what they want. They're almost always far too few to succeed.

What was so shocking about Sanders repeatedly promising and then trying to illicitly overset the popular vote wasn't that he would do it, given his decades of dissing rhetoric, but that so many of his followers supported his plan instead of dropping him cold the first time he promised it.

But again, those are no more representative of who the large majority of Democrats are than Sanders' attitude toward the democratic process is representative of our other candidates'.