Now that Americans know that we live in a banana republic where elections are not only bought, as we already knew, but are also stolen under our noses, we need to pay priority attention to the issue of elections. In the absence of democracy, as Sanders himself knows, there is no hope whatsoever to achieve the diversionary reforms he wants to store safely away in a corrupt and undemocratic Party's platform where popular policies go to die. Sanders' retreat to the cowardly safety of the platform diversion has made him irrelevant to the priority task of demanding democratic elections, for which the people will now need to organize themselves.
Trump, whom Sanders has elevated to a greater-of-two-evils excuse for his capitulation before the Convention, at least has the courage to say that the nomination has been stolen from Sanders by a rigged political system where "insiders [write] the rules of the game to keep themselves in power and in the money." Instead of negotiating with Trump how they might join to focus on this priority issue, Sanders reverts to the identity-politics narrative that sustains the corruption.
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