T-rump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18

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8. Well, Merrick Garland was not a Democrat, or a small "d" democrat

The most revealing fact about our so-called 2-party system is that there has Never been a Democrat confirmed as the head of the FBI. Democratic Presidents have nominated Republicans to that job EVeRY SINGLE TIME. Can somebody explain that?

Obama nominated Garland to the SCOTUS because he thought that Republicans would confirm what seemed to be a middle-of--the-road REPUBLICAN. Biden doubled down on that mistake by making him AG.

I 100% agree with you. Dems -- or should we say, progressive-minded people (we can't count on this party ever changing) will never be in a position to change the important things until we can run candidates that will openly and forcefully stand up to the entrenched oligarchy.. It can be done. Mamdani won his election on that basis and is surviving.

The primary process is rigged to serve the party bosses. The power center in the GOP has shifted far to the right, and that's what their primaries deliver. The power center in the Dem party is very much status quo --- much more like Obama and Manchin than AOC and Newsom. That primary process may be our greatest barrier to reaching a governing majority.