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Dems: Let's Read Important, Self-Critical Articles on the Election

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Comparing Hillary Clinton's Top Donors to Bernie Sanders Top Donors by Ben Norton -- "Compare Hillary Clinton's top donors to Bernie Sanders': 90 percent of the top 20 contributors to Hillary Clinton are corporations or provide services to corporations. 95 percent of the top 20 contributors to Bernie Sanders are unions."

Michael Moore, Who Predicted Trump Win, Calls for a Democratic Party Takeover-- "'You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there's climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage, and they want a single-payer true universal health care system,' Moore writes. 'None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the 'liberal' position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen.'"

It Was the Democrat's Embrace of Neoliberalism That Won It for Trump by Naomi Klein -- "Elite neoliberalism has nothing to offer that pain [poverty, powerlessness, etc.], because neoliberalism unleashed the Davos class. People such as Hillary and Bill Clinton are the toast of the Davos party. In truth, they threw the party."

Why Did Trump Win? Blame the Failed Policies of the Democratic Party by Glenn Greenwald -- "And I think that if we're going to have any kind of constructive discussion in the aftermath of Trump's victory, it has to include, first and foremost, a discussion about why the Democratic Party has become such a small minority party, a minority in the House, a minority in the Senate, lost control of the White House to someone like Donald Trump, is obliterated on the state and local levels. What is it about the Democratic Party that has caused huge portions of the American voting population to turn their back to it and to reject it? And I think we're seeing Democrats scrambling around, trying to avoid that discussion by casting the blame on everybody else. And I think that will only ensure that this kind of event will continue to replicate itself in the future."

Bernie Sanders Would Have Been a Stronger Candidate Against Donald Trump by Glenn Greenwald -- "And I think that what you just contrasted, in terms of how Trump was treated and how Sanders was treated, shows a really important truth about how media operates, which is, if you talk to most journalists who work at major media outlets or newspapers, as you know, and you say to them, 'You have all kinds of ways that you censor certain opinions, that you have of excluding certain viewpoints,' they'll insist that that's not true, that they never are told what to show or not to show, they're never told what to say or not to say. And, of course, that's true. And yet, embedded within all of their editorial judgments about who is worth hearing from and who isn't worth hearing from are all kinds of ideological and partisan biases. So the idea that Donald Trump, the billionaire, celebrity, TV star, should constantly be heard from, whereas Bernie Sanders, the old Jewish socialist from Vermont, who nobody took seriously, doesn't need to be heard from, with all of his boring speeches about college debt and healthcare and the like, in that choice is a very strong and pedantic ideological choice that the American media embraced and played a huge role in enabling Trump to march to the primary."

Donald Trump Will Be President: This is What We Do Next by Jon Schwartz -- "The role for older, richer white liberals will be important but painfully different from what they're used to. They'll have to support other people's priorities, put up money for things they don't control, and use all of their social power to protect Muslims, immigrants, and every threatened minority. " What white progressives can and must pursue is outreach to Trump's white base." (It's also great on the storytelling the Democrats aren't doing.)

Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit by Glenn Greenwald -- "Afterward, the elites whose entitlement to prevail was crushed devoted their energies to blaming everyone they could find except for themselves, while doubling down on their unbridled contempt for those who defied them, steadfastly refusing to examine what drove their insubordination. " The indisputable fact is that prevailing institutions of authority in the West, for decades, have relentlessly and with complete indifference stomped on the economic welfare and social security of hundreds of millions of people."

The End of the Pantsuit Nation and the Force of Subliminal Messages by Federiga Bindi -- She writes about the "Clinton Brand", messaging, Russia, Bernie, and pantsuits.

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