2. @TinyRevolution notes: "The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself."
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@TinyRevolution ctd: "Thus, they would rather the institution ‘fail’ while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to ‘succeed’ if that requires them to lose power within the institution.”Show this thread -
4. The New York Times piece about elite Democratic figures who want a brokered convention had the feel of Milton's Satan. They worry about Bernie's electability but their alternative (a dark horse candidate like Pelosi, Warren or Brown) would be even more likely to fail.
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5. Some thoughts on why both Satan and the Democratic Party elite are wrong.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrat-establishment-destroy-sanders/ …
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can stop the thread here tbh
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not a good look, Satan
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not today, Satan!
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I've always wondered whether it would really be better to be the monarch of a nightmarish hellscape or to just sit tight in a normal society collecting disability benefit for your one eye injury
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There's a good story about this that makes clear that the disability check is the wiser choice, that land is no paradise for the partially sighted.
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Caesar said that it was better being the first man in a village than the second in Rome IIRC
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