reason there was so much hostility to Sanders campaign was ideological but it was also not. There’s a gentlemen’s agreement of silence around the revolving door of dem politics and corporate consultancy/PR/think tank world and Sanders surrogates we’re sometimes softly critical of
this, which is the single biggest taboo in that world. There has to be a general cultural acceptability of being “progressive” while working with, for, being funded by, and going in and out of Amazon, Lockheed, Walmart, Uber, etc. to call this out is to undermine the gravy train
Which is central to professional democratic politics. Warren FP advisors came from Cohen Group and Brunswick Group both of which work for Saudi butcher regime. It’s so baked in even “anti-corruption” progressives don’t care. Sanders sometimes gently poke at this which implicitly
calls everyone in on the racket a venal hack. This is in and of itself is also ideological but it’s ideological in a personal way, in a way that calls into question the ethics of them and all their friends. They saw it as self-righteousness but mostly they like the gravy train
This gravy train is also rode by many pundits, journalists, etc who are also very much in on the gentlemen’s agreement of silence. So long as one doesn’t work concurrently in corporate influence pedaling and literal governance it’s okay.
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