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By Chris Hedges
I was on the streets with protesters in Philadelphia outside the
appropriately named Wells Fargo Center during the 2016 Democratic
Convention when hundreds of Sanders delegates walked out of the hall.
“Show me what democracy looks like!” they chanted, holding Bernie signs
above their heads as they poured out of the exits. “This is what
democracy looks like!”
Sanders’ greatest tactical mistake was not joining them. He bowed before
the mighty altar of the corporate state. He had desperately tried to
stave off a revolt by his supporters and delegates on the eve of the
convention by sending out repeated messages in his name — most of them
authored by members of the Clinton campaign — to be respectful, not
disrupt the nominating process and support Clinton. Sanders was a
dutiful sheepdog, attempting to herd his disgruntled supporters into the
embrace of the Clinton campaign. At his moment of apostasy, when he
introduced a motion to nominate Clinton, his delegates had left hundreds
of convention seats empty.
full: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-one-choice-election/
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