There's no good reason to anathematize Bernie and his supporters.

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20. The center will attack the left with all they have. They hate us, for real.

Neoliberals hate the Left more than they hate conservatives, because the latter group is at least with them on the major assumptions of economic order, foreign policy, etc., so even though they do battle the Overton Window doesn't shift like it does with the introduction of a socialist into the political system. This is why neoliberals hugged the Bush family throughout the election, and why they buy into the myth that Reagan was a good President.

The truth is that any candidate that stands for the poor, the workers, the minorities, the powerless, the marginalized will have to go against the ultimate wants and needs of the ruling class. They are wealthy and control the levers of power. They want endless war and global empire, they want pipelines on indigenous lands, they want economic inequality (surplus labor), they want the police state and prison state. These things all make them money, and their money allows them to buy politicians to facilitate more of the policies they prefer.