This is a response to a Kos post primary post.
I’m an amateur at this political thing. I don’t know anybody or have influence with anybody, nor have I worked directly on campaigns. I got no insider dope.
But I’ve participated in American politics since the 1970’s and I have certain ideas. One of them is that politics is about power.
Kos is making an appeal to those of us who support Bernie Sanders and his proposals to join with the democratic party establishment. He wants us to believe that this is the best way forward.
He knows that it would greatly increase the power of the Democratic party to have this large group of enthusiastic citizens join them. He gets a little deprecating at times, telling us what real movements do and assuring us that Hillary will sweep to power with or without us.
Which is interesting.
What he doesn’t mention is that the group that came this close to snatching the nomination away from the most powerful political force on the planet still exists, and still has the same power.
In fact, reckoning with the independents and others who would gladly support Sanders and his policies if given the chance, it’s quite likely that, as a bloc, we represent a more powerful faction than the Clintons and their supporters.
In short, win or lose the nomination, we’re not the ones to be standing at the door, hat in hand.