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<blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 67324" data-attributes="member: 35">It would be easy to dismiss a conservative Democrat running in a state like Virginia, but the disconnect between establishment Democrats and progressives is happening all across the country.&nbsp; For example, Dianne Feinstein of California takes money from the health care industry and doesn&#039;t support single payer.&nbsp; Eric Bauman, the newly elected chair of the California Democratic Party, takes money from big pharma and blocked an initiative for lower drug prices in his state.&nbsp; When nurses at the California convention spoke up for single payer, outgoing party Chair John Burton told them to &quot;Shut the f**k up and go outside.&quot;MSNBC&#039;s Joy Reid stated &quot;Bernie and his followers are like that college friend who stays at your place for weeks, pays $0, eats your food &amp; trashes your aesthetic,&quot; which is bullshit.&nbsp; Establishment media tools are desperate smear merchants of a guy who took no corporate money, supports a living wage, is against college students being saddled with debt, and fights for every American to have access to health care.&nbsp; So how is he a mooch when he isn&#039;t beholden to corporate interests?&nbsp; When your &quot;aesthetic&quot; consists of doing the bidding of Wall Street, big pharma, and the military industrial complex, I&#039;d say it was trashed to begin with and needs a makeover.Holding the Democratic Party to a strict purity test may seem counterproductive to some in the age of Trump, but Democrats need a pro-people agenda to replace Trump&#039;s with.&nbsp; Having money in politics has allowed the corporatists to turn the Democratic Party into a party of the wealthy.&nbsp; Their foreign policy record is also atrocious.&nbsp; Obama ran as an anti-war/anti-NSA spying progressive, yet both increased under his watch.People can see beyond the platitudes and realize they&#039;re getting a raw deal.&nbsp; Several progressives are planning to primary the corporatists, even in states like West Virginia.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see what comes of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frank Underwood, post: 67324, member: 35"] It would be easy to dismiss a conservative Democrat running in a state like Virginia, but the disconnect between establishment Democrats and progressives is happening all across the country. For example, Dianne Feinstein of California takes money from the health care industry and doesn't support single payer. Eric Bauman, the newly elected chair of the California Democratic Party, takes money from big pharma and blocked an initiative for lower drug prices in his state. When nurses at the California convention spoke up for single payer, outgoing party Chair John Burton told them to "Shut the f**k up and go outside." MSNBC's Joy Reid stated "Bernie and his followers are like that college friend who stays at your place for weeks, pays $0, eats your food & trashes your aesthetic," which is bullshit. Establishment media tools are desperate smear merchants of a guy who took no corporate money, supports a living wage, is against college students being saddled with debt, and fights for every American to have access to health care. So how is he a mooch when he isn't beholden to corporate interests? When your "aesthetic" consists of doing the bidding of Wall Street, big pharma, and the military industrial complex, I'd say it was trashed to begin with and needs a makeover. Holding the Democratic Party to a strict purity test may seem counterproductive to some in the age of Trump, but Democrats need a pro-people agenda to replace Trump's with. Having money in politics has allowed the corporatists to turn the Democratic Party into a party of the wealthy. Their foreign policy record is also atrocious. Obama ran as an anti-war/anti-NSA spying progressive, yet both increased under his watch. People can see beyond the platitudes and realize they're getting a raw deal. Several progressives are planning to primary the corporatists, even in states like West Virginia. It will be interesting to see what comes of it. [/QUOTE]

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