Click the photo of the link for the recording of Democratic leadership attempting to shove aside the candidacy of a Democratic progressive who is in a primary against a Democratic moderate.
The same forces behind Hillary Clinton remain in power today, whether it's the DNC, the DCCC or respective supporting PAC committees. They are trying to grow baby Pelosis and baby Schumers, i.e., politicians fitting for Wall Street.
https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/steny-hoyer-audio-levi-tillemann/
If this happened to you at a poker table, any reasonable-minded person would call it a fix. Why would they do that? Because it is a fix!
Most Democrats aren't the Democrats we want and hope for. Although this is a congressional race, this conversation is a great example how the fix plays out on the more local level. The insiders pick their horse and then get their media connections to support that horse. Other candidates of good heart, and often of good ideas, get short shrift and the system perpetuates itself.
There is a solid reason why the electorate is presently composed of 45% Independents with the Democrats and Republicans trading places while fluctuating between 25-30 percent (see Gallup monthly tracking of voter registration).
Gore Vidal said it succinctly when he graced our planet with his presences: In America, there are two political parties with one right wing.
