Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Has there been any reaction from BS or the BS campaign about page 23 of the Mueller report? [View all]Ford_Prefect
(8,624 posts)I am not defending his present hires. Some of them worry me as to why would he hire them and who may be so advising him.
I was speaking to the past campaign in regards to the charges of co-opting and colluding. Bernie was not Jill Stein AFAIK.
The vote against the sanctions bill was to defeat added, unwarranted Iran sanctions and thus protect the Nuclear agreement. I agree with protecting that deal. The GOP put both together and refused to consider them independently, per Trump and the Neo-Cons.
I will also say I among many others are tired of the animosity seemingly carried over from 2016. If you are looking for a principle cause of that set of events you must begin with the decisions made well prior to the primary season by the DNC and other Democratic leaders to steer the primary towards their preferred candidate and the actions they took long before the Primary to limit fund raising and participation in policy decisions.
I do not accuse them of generating the "defeat". I observe that they acted in the interests of certain influential donors much as they appear to be doing now. The primary chaos which many have tried to blame on Bernie or his followers had many sources including the Russian Trolls and those working for Koch industries, among other GOP patrons. It also derived considerable energy from within our party.
Deep Throat asked Woodward if he understood just how influential those working in the darkness were and suggested they had engineered the choice of 1972 Democratic Candidate. The same groups are busy now modifying the primary process by spinning Democrats against each other and against traditional Democratic causes. Those are the "enemies" of the party IMHO.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden