[Peace-discuss] Democratic Party elites look like they're running 2016 tactics again

[J.B. Nicholson]

David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
> That message should be an appropriately populist one; but party elites
> don't like that prospect, so are doing everything they can to undermine
> Bernie Sanders.

For example, a recent New York Times piece which is the basis of an MSNBC 
segment with DNC chairman Ed Rendell (you remember him, he colluded with 
the RNC to put on so-called 'debates' managed by the privately-owned 
"Commission on Presidential Debates") and a reply from Jimmy Dore's group:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/politics/2020-democrats-pennsylvania-.html 
-- The NY Times piece includes (and MSNBC quotes):

> [...] there are widespread worries that the momentum in Pennsylvania,
> and in other key Rust Belt states, could screech to a halt if the issues
> in the 2020 presidential primaries and the party’s eventual nominee
> stray too far left for the region’s many centrist voters.

and later the NYT quotes Ed Rendell:

> “The more we have presidential candidates or newly elected
> congresspeople talking about the Green New Deal, talking about ‘Medicare
> for all,’ talking about socialism, the more that plays into the Trump
> campaign’s hands,” said Ed Rendell, a former Pennsylvania governor and
> national Democratic chairman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdHVjEjvM3c -- Jimmy Dore's group responded 
including:

> 'Don't fight for shit you believe in, don't fight for shit you believe 
> in. We're [the DNC] not gonna fight for shit you believe in.' That's
> not a winning strategy, fuckface [Ed Rendell]. Medicare for All --
> something every other Western country has figured out fucking decades
> ago! But to Ed Rendell it's a goddamn Rubik's cube. 'Wha? How does this
> medi-- You give people medicine and it's cheaper? I don't understand.
> And if you get sick you just go see-- I don't understand.' 'Zero
> bankruptcies? What are you talking about?' Ron Placone adds.