The National Security Stare wins big with the Democratic Party. Trying to get away from any Bernie reforms at all, the establishment Dems embrace CIA, NSA, and military candidates for Congress. How could a political party really be any worse than this?
Obama ran from any real reforms while claiming he represented "Hope you can believe in." Could anyone still believe in the Democratic Party, after Bill and Hillary Clinton, and then Obama? Maybe a few wealthy neoliberals. But not the working class of this country. They would have elected Mickey Mouse before watching another sellout pretending to do the peoples' business.
Patrick Martin has done his homework, and his interview was filled with details of the Democratic sellout to the security state. It is interesting, of course, but ultimately sad as well. We are led by malicious and venal people, ever eager to sell out their principals for a few million here and there. The proof is beyond any doubt. If we want to save the planet, we will have to trash the current system of kleptocratic, two party rule.
