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And I will not blame "the voters" or "the public" for any of this, because the pressures on people are simply outrageous now, and the ordinary person, the working father/mother, the ones unemployed or struggling or even succeeding (barely) are not the architects of the mess we are in.
I totally agree with this. I think it's childish and self-serving to do so. It is about generalising misanthropy onto a large body of people. But you hear the charge “voters are stupid” often enough from both sides of the aisle.
If I lived on your side of the pond, I'd definitely campaign for Bernie Sanders. Not because I think anything useful would come of it because it would be campaigning for a four year lame duck one term presidency. But at least it would be throwing a spanner into the works of the party machines. In a way, it would be about serving notice on the establishment.
That said, without a concurrent drive to elect Sanderista congresspeople and senators, people like Dianne Feinstein will still be the ones in charge. I would just hope that they're self-preserving enough to accept a mandate to Sanders.
That said, over here a Bernie Sanders-like character did win a primary fight and is now party leader of the Labour party. The establishment have done everything to undermine him, and that includes the nominal left-wing media of The Guardian and The Independent. Sanders would face the same thing over there. The current masters will not go gently into that good night, at all.