2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartman Just Had A Man Named Sam Smith On [View all]GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)the leaders and the gatekeepers of the organizations that stand in their way. It's why installing puppet leaders in other nations is their favorite go-to foreign policy. They will never get the indigenous populations to hand over their oil and mining resources for 1 cent on the dollar. But a puppet leader will sign them away for one small deposit into a secret bank account.
The struggle between FDR Democrats and the Turd Way is increasingly between the true Democratic base and the bought-and-paid-for party gatekeepers (DWS).
Of course the right corrupted the Democratic Party. It's way cheaper to make a few cannot-refuse deals with key gatekeepers than to endorse genuinely democratic policies which would spread the wealth across the entire U.S. population.
Some of them are goddamned sociopaths. They don't give a shit about patriotism or democracy.