Seen on the internet:
https://statuscoup.com/dnc-pledges-...fxxEO6fopU33W5T-_38nFDFTji9_hMlvmJgFVm76tUMME
Pass the popcorn ... this strikes me as a set-up for further corruption, or the set-up to a house cleaning that will be immediately turned I to a made-for-TV movie. With such clearly defined villains and victims, it could be a chance for redemption by self-demonstration or maybe just a dumpster fire of corruption.
I sincerely hope that progressives understand that they're defending the will of the people - and use people power. Sign up democrats and teach them to vote in primaries.
Each thing evokes it's opposite. Society produces archetypes to stop this sort of thing, bit the media has been co-opted. The political party has been infiltrated by industry, consulted by the very same think tanks that sell foreign policies that are somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan
The trouble with these headless movements, is that they succumb to mission drift. They're dragged into a bubble that resembles a rigged thunderdome from Mad Max. It's great for ratings, but the corporate media business model requires big money being paid by advertisers that (coincidentally) are owned by the same corporations.
The people can't see where the media company begins and the industrial giant begins. They also can't see where McDonnell-Douglas ends and the Defense Department begins either.
We have a model for a constitutional republic that the compact created to gain (the perception of) consent from the people. That's taught in school, but it's an inch deep and a mile wide.
Over-top of that greatly over-praised model, we have a control fraud perpetrated by the compact that created the command structure. It's reason has changed. A tycoon doesn't want to lay the people to fight a war - taxes are expensive. So, a captain of industry would build his own ship and call himself a "commodore", just as some had sent horses to the cavalry, others equipped fully equipped cavalry regiments.
The battle for hearts and minds is what drove post WW2 propaganda, because compact and command had a common external enemy. Russia is not communist, nor the Soviet Union, but there is a three-letter agency out there that needs that part of the world map to be coloured as a threat. The CIA is struggling with institutional survival, so, an ideological treat from the Soviets, is being turned into a blood-feud with Russian people. Russia was an ally until 1945. Russia defeated Nazi Germany with 20m lives. I think it was Eisenhower that said every Westerner owes them a debt of gratitude.
How does the media con work ? The two party system is only a slight variation on the one party system. At elite levels, it's explained that a one party state will defeat a multiple party state because the will of the people is easier to get. More "unity" (or the perception of unity).
Its done wjth interlocking boards of directors with about 130 executives that have discretionary spending power. That money is spent on media coverage ... sending g reporters to this candidate, not because they're pro-war and pro-Wall Street, but because they're at 2% in this bullsh!t poll ...