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[Scootaloo]

5. Just as soon as someone figures out how to "push the DNC"

if Bernie does not secure the primary, the party will uniformly assume that his issues were unimportant, and write them off in favor of a Nixonian agendas. If his supporters dump the party hard enough to cause a loss, not only are we stuck with Trump, but the party will decide that we're not worth listening to (Well, that'll be their excuse for not listening to us after that) and will decide to embrace Republican stances to "appeal to voters" - after all, Trump won, so Trump must be right!

With the party deciding these issues are of no importance and the voters behind those issues are disposable, it's damned hard ot get supportive candidates into office - the DNC will oppose them every step of the way, and then point out that their loss means that "people aren't interested"

Basically the party is on a set trajectory to be a right-wing corporatism shithole, and there is no really good way to hit the brakes if this attempt fails.

I'm not saying don't try. I'm just intensely skeptical that any results will be garnered.