Thread by @charliemassact

@ewarren @BernieSanders A top @ewarren aide said they "couldn't wait to sell out" to corporate positions that trade on insider power.

Another went on to work at a major K street lobbying firm, 4 big bucks.

A 3rd was "pro-lying"

~80% friends or reltvs of donors+lobbyists+powerbrokers

#Bernie2020

@ewarren @BernieSanders On election night, in the guilded ballroom of the Copley Plaza,

@ewarren's fundraising council watched results fr the balcony high abv the vols + staff below.

A donor watching them upstairs said that they "had paid my salary."

Were we really changing things for the better?

@ewarren @BernieSanders I remember when
@ewarren's senior policy aide pointed out the cases they did for public interest law firms that they talked about.

And the bad ones for corporate law firms that they didn't.

Much like Warren herself.

The rich pull her strings. It's true.

#Bernie2020

@ewarren @BernieSanders As a staffer on @ewarren's campaign, it appeared, without admitting it, that everything major policy-wise was brought to the fundraising council --

for the approval, in effect, of the corporate oligarchy.

Finance staffers doubted they were making real change.

#BernieInLA

@ewarren @BernieSanders A staffer characterized the fundraising department as "King - like always"

A finance staff member referred to the constant meetings of Warren's fundraising council of oligarchs, and the systematic way in which senior staff and Warren consulted with it #NotMeUs #Bernie2020

@ewarren @BernieSanders A senior Warren staffer celebrated her "owning Israel" after she attended an exclusive fundraiser in the wealthy, "pro-Israel" suburb Newton

Was ugly to see Warren repeat estab talking pts vowing blind support 4 occupation, framing Israel as victim, & legitimizg Palest apartheid

@ewarren @BernieSanders Warren donors I personally vetted:
✔️Senior counsels at corps bankrupted by famous scandals
✔️Fleets of attorneys at shady corporate law firms
✔️DC lobbyists, insiders, powerbrokers
✔️Trial lawyers
✔️Hack party donors in SF, Silicon Valley, Hollywd, NY, DC
✔️The M's Vineyard set

@ewarren @BernieSanders Only during the primary has Warren pledged not to meet with big donors invested in white supremacy + the corporate greed that's killing America

Warren's fundraisers are now maintaining relations with oligarchs for the general election and beyond

See:
politico.com/news/2019/11/1…

@ewarren @BernieSanders Warren's staff was dominated by ultra-cynical establishment operatives from the

✔️DNC
✔️DCCC
✔️David Brock's SuperPAC American Bridge, which attacked Bernie for Clinton
✔️Sen Schumer
✔️Sen D Leadership
✔️DSCC

And now from
✔️Sen Harris
✔️The imperialist Dem foreign policy estab

@ewarren @BernieSanders Common refrain w Warren staff was disdain for integrity, ordinary ppl's intelligence, democracy, the grassroots, & the left

Also avoidance of public assoctn w labor unions, poor & black ppl, immigrants, & drag queens

Clear capitulation to American classism, racism, homophobia

@ewarren @BernieSanders Several Warren staffers, wealthy, white liberals from the suburbs, told me they thought they might get shot just by entering safe black, urban neighborhoods

They said so on their way to a routine campaign meeting with a supporter & a party hosted by a black campaign organizer

@ewarren @BernieSanders The unspoken, yet defining, rule of the Warren campaign was to conceal the ethical corruption, + protect the power, of the machine + self-serving insiders who ran the show

There was hostility + indifference to the idea of acting as a true public servant or agent of social change

@ewarren @BernieSanders On Warren's staff of insiders, the imperative was never to let the public know they subjugated most human needs+values to their own narrow idea of power

Seemed to care little abt the ppl who needed them, &

Manipulated the public with fake-sincere stances to advance their power

@ewarren @BernieSanders Warren represents the 'progressive' donor-insider class that, despite shallow support for inadequate reforms, profits fr extractive class + race supremacy

This system of domination, exploitation, + punishment harvests wealth fr the toil of the many for the endless greed of a few

@ewarren @BernieSanders As a result, most people are forced into artificial scarcity, causing widespread, needless suffering.

This perverse, unhealthy order, furthermore, enforces its grip through a merciless prison apparatus that, in practice, serves as an instrument of race + class control.

Even the system's woke beneficiaries, who back Warren, will still fight to the end to preserve this oppressive, failing system of racial capitalism

So why should we trust them to spearhead a bold era of social-democratic reform that challenges the system's key power centers?