PyramidHead
Contributor
This primary election is a referendum on the professional/managerial class versus the working class, on whether the majority of Americans should submit to the wise stewardship of upwardly mobile technocrats who know what's best for them, or apply direct pressure on the political institutions that have failed them by banding together for each other's benefit. Sanders and AOC represent the latter strategy, and everyone else with a snowball's chance in hell at winning represents the former.
Which is why it always irks me when Sanders is painted as the pie-in-the-sky candidate, as he's the only one with an actual theory of change that has a shot at working. Even Warren, for all her laudable plans, has shown no indication that she's aware of the structural impediments that will stymie and compromise every last one of them. Sanders knows this landscape because he's fought against it his whole life, and he knows that a mobilized and politically active working class is the only force capable of extracting concessions from it, because consultants and psychology professors don't grind all of society to a fucking halt when they go on strike. Air traffic controllers and subway train drivers do.
It's by no means a sure thing that his strategy will work, but it's the only one with a chance of working. Unequivocally, without question, maintaining the existing reliance on doing politics behind closed doors rather than in public to rally support is a dead end. There is simply no scenario where it alters the trajectory we've been on for decades. The working class will hear the usual merit-based, means-tested bullshit that nibbles around the edges of the encroaching wave of further stagnation and disaster, and just tune out and hunker down like they always have to while rich people duke it out in boardrooms. Maybe that's inevitable no matter what happens, but there's no excuse for political nihilism now, when there's as clear and historic a way beyond that outcome as the Sanders movement. If it fails, it fails, but it only fails if you're either too afraid to support it or don't actually care about what it represents.
Which is why it always irks me when Sanders is painted as the pie-in-the-sky candidate, as he's the only one with an actual theory of change that has a shot at working. Even Warren, for all her laudable plans, has shown no indication that she's aware of the structural impediments that will stymie and compromise every last one of them. Sanders knows this landscape because he's fought against it his whole life, and he knows that a mobilized and politically active working class is the only force capable of extracting concessions from it, because consultants and psychology professors don't grind all of society to a fucking halt when they go on strike. Air traffic controllers and subway train drivers do.
It's by no means a sure thing that his strategy will work, but it's the only one with a chance of working. Unequivocally, without question, maintaining the existing reliance on doing politics behind closed doors rather than in public to rally support is a dead end. There is simply no scenario where it alters the trajectory we've been on for decades. The working class will hear the usual merit-based, means-tested bullshit that nibbles around the edges of the encroaching wave of further stagnation and disaster, and just tune out and hunker down like they always have to while rich people duke it out in boardrooms. Maybe that's inevitable no matter what happens, but there's no excuse for political nihilism now, when there's as clear and historic a way beyond that outcome as the Sanders movement. If it fails, it fails, but it only fails if you're either too afraid to support it or don't actually care about what it represents.
Right. The newspaper that has been around for a very long time and has won an unlimited number of awards for outstanding journalism is the one you call fake? 
