Old-Dutch its certainly possible. I personally don’t think he is the puppet master that some others do. I genuinely think he just wants to operate in the world he’s built for himself, ie do a shitty podcast with Bruce Springsteen and host parties for Beyonce. The careerists that were birthed off of his terms are the ones that I blame for the desire to maintain the statusquo, but ultimately it doesn’t matter. The Democrats have a fundamental problem. They do not want to give their base the things they want most. It would go against their own interests to fight for healthcare, Wall Street reform, and endless war funding. It’s why I believe they are happy to lose elections, or at the very least lose control of one lever of government. It’s easier for them to fundraise when they can say oooh I’d absolutely give you healthcare, but we just don’t have the power to do so right now. Obama doing nothing, out side of passing a Republican healthcare reform bill, with his super majority was a real wakeup call for my generation and the Dems have still yet to deal with it in a meaningful way.
