{"id":180543,"date":"2017-03-19T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/19\/the-iron-law-of-organizations-made-manifest\/"},"modified":"2017-03-19T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T01:59:00","slug":"the-iron-law-of-organizations-made-manifest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/19\/the-iron-law-of-organizations-made-manifest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Law of Organizations* Made Manifest"},"content":{"rendered":"

By a wide margin, the most popular politician on America’s national scene right now is Bernie Sanders, and the Democratic Party establishment appears to think that its first priority is taking him, and his supporters, down<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If you look at the numbers, Bernie Sanders<\/a> is the most popular politician in America \u2013 and it\u2019s not even close. Yet bizarrely, the Democratic party \u2013 out of power across the country and increasingly irrelevant \u2013 still refuses to embrace him and his message. It\u2019s increasingly clear they do so at their own peril.<\/p>\n

A new Fox News poll out this week<\/a> shows Sanders has a +28 net favorability rating among the US population, dwarfing all other elected politicians on both ends of the political spectrum. And he\u2019s even more popular among the vaunted \u201cindependents\u201d, where he is at a mind boggling +41<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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One would think with numbers like that, Democratic politicians would be falling all over themselves to be associated with Sanders, especially considering the party as a whole is more unpopular<\/a> than the Republicans and even Donald Trump right now. Yet instead of embracing his message, the establishment wing of the party continues to resist him at almost every turn, and they seem insistent that they don\u2019t have to change their ways to gain back the support of huge swaths of the country. <\/p>\n

Politico ran a story just this week<\/a> featuring Democratic officials fretting over the fact that Sanders supporters may upend their efforts to retake governorships in southern states by insisting those candidates adopt Sanders\u2019 populist policies \u2013 seemingly oblivious to the fact that Sanders plays well in some of those states too. <\/p>\n

Sanders\u2019 effect on Trump voters can be seen in a gripping town hall this week that MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes hosted with him in West Virginia \u2013 often referred to as \u201cTrump country\u201d \u2013 where the crowd ended up giving him a rousing ovation<\/a> after he talked about healthcare being a right of all people and that we are the only industrialized nation in the world who doesn\u2019t provide healthcare as a right to all its people. <\/p>\n

One would think with numbers like that, Democratic politicians would be falling all over themselves to be associated with Sanders, especially considering the party as a whole is more unpopular<\/a> than the Republicans and even Donald Trump right now. Yet instead of embracing his message, the establishment wing of the party continues to resist him at almost every turn, and they seem insistent that they don\u2019t have to change their ways to gain back the support of huge swaths of the country. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are people who have made their careers sucking up to Wall Street and other corporate interest.<\/p>\n

If the Democratic Party moves back toward actually protecting ordinary people from the “Malefactors of Great Wealth,”\u2020<\/sup> they will lose power, and likely their phony baloney jobs.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>That power WITHIN<\/b> an organization will be pursued at the even at the expense of the power OF<\/b> that organization. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2020<\/sup>Ironically, I am quoting a Republican, Theodore Roosevelt.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By a wide margin, the most popular politician on America’s national scene right now is Bernie Sanders, and the Democratic Party establishment appears to think that its first priority is taking him, and his supporters, down: If you look at the numbers, Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America \u2013 and it\u2019s not …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,642,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-180543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-iron-law-of-institutions","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}