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By Jeff St. Clair
Bernie Sanders had a choice. He could have run as the outsider he
claimed to be. He could have run as an independent. He could have run as
a Socialist or a Green. He could have been a threat to the immiserating
status quo. But he wilted. Either because Sanders really is at heart a
Democrat or because he is a political coward who feared retribution, he
chose to lend credence to a party that has brutalized nearly every
progressive policy he claims to champion.
Meanwhile, truly independent campaigns, the ones that forcefully
challenge the neoliberal dogma and imperialistic militarism of the
Democratic Party from the outside, are crushed, their candidates and
supporters vilified and demonized. Go ask Ralph Nader.
full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/31/bernie-and-the-sandernistas/
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