Sanders and 'burning down the house'

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Jinx: Democrats have been, correctly, lamenting the person with the most votes in the 2016 election didn't win.
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It's been part of a generalized critique by Democrats against anti-democratic forces in our putative republic.
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To just immediately work towards an end that doesn't result in the person with the most votes winning the 2020 Democratic presidential primary would be immediately seen as cravenly corrupt.
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There is a process in place, and the process is highly anti-democratic -- just like the electoral college.
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I'll remind you in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton also did not secure a majority, only a plurality of voters.
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To counter the point you amplified originating from Buttigieg about 'burning down the house', I'll remind you that it is just to burn down unjust houses.
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It is unjust to desire or demand people continue to live their lives in systems and societies which are fundamentally corrupt and anti-democratic, as beautifully pointed about by Martin Luther King Jr. at the height of the Civil Rights era.
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I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "o
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rder" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negr
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o to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
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Buttigieg is exactly the type of person MLK Jr. was describing in that section of Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
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As a Bernie Sanders supporter, I am proud to be able to *accurately* describe myself and my politics as existing in the lineage of MLK -- a status so many Americans claim, but so few fail to establish.