By Antonio Agcaoili
Special to the Chronicle
Many progressives believed that Democrats would be in the process of moving in a populist direction following the election, but what they have proven to me is that they don’t want to move – they wish to stagnate. Democrats are so against change that they, along with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders. What!? Fake news! Bernie Bros!
No, in fact, in the dismissed case against the DNC, lawyers representing the party have claimed, and I’m paraphrasing, “The DNC is a private organization and is not legally obligated to remain neutral in its primary.” There has been evidence of cheating as DNC members longed to “atheist shame” Sanders ahead of the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries, and then Labor Secretary Tom Perez even offered to put a “hatchet” in Sanders’ back.
Former CNN employee Donna Brazile gave town hall questions to the Clinton campaign in secret; former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned in disgrace because she was caught via emails supporting nefarious intentions against the Vermont senator.
So we have an “illegitimate” nominee running against a fascist whom she helped prop up because they believed Trump was easy to beat. So easy, in fact, that she decided not to campaign in Wisconsin and Michigan – states which Sanders won in the primary – but chose rather to hold hands with Warren Buffet in Nebraska in an offense strategy to pick up Arizona, Texas, Utah and Georgia.
On Nov. 8, Donald Trump won nearly every swing state and became President-elect of the U.S. And yet, despite Clinton making Wall Street speeches, picking a “Right to Work” Democrat as the VP, laundering money away from state parties and spending millions of dollars to hire internet supporters, her loss is on me.
Don’t believe me? Well, take it from the horse’s mouth herself. Excerpts from Clinton’s new book, “What Happened,” vehemently blames Sanders and “Bernie Bros” for her defeat. It’s as if progressives and Sanders’ supporters didn’t try to warn you that a Clinton nomination would lead to defeat. Former Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd said during a 2008 primary debate that, “50 percent of the country won’t vote for Hillary Clinton.” There’s truth to that, since Bill Clinton never won a majority of the popular vote, and despite Clinton’s winning the popular vote in 2016, she didn’t crack 50 percent.
My point is that none of this matters to Clinton supporters. Clinton supporters are quite akin to the Bush-era Republicans that they claim to hate. They ignore the facts and the polls when it doesn’t suit them and they slander progressives with Republican attacks, loudly criticizing Bernie for the “free stuff,” exclaiming, “How are you going to pay for that? Pie in the sky!”
These are “Democrats.” These were people chanting, “Yes we can!” Now they pessimistically whimper, “No we can’t.”
I’ll be honest with you – when your strategy is “Let’s be Republicans,” you have no place in the party of the left. Clinton supporters from the primary onward are truly dangerous to the Democratic Party and are currently fracturing it.
A Harvard-Harris Survey says, “Bernie Sanders has eighty percent approval among Democrats.” Funny, isn’t it, that the “radical leftist” from Vermont is not only the most popular politician in the country, but also the most beloved by Democrats?
Democrats who hate Bernie Sanders are the fringe group, the minority and the irrationals of the party. Unfortunately, they are the loudest and still have the most power. They are a dying breed who shot themselves in the foot last November and are now shambling for relevance.
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