When I was a young baar and not quite so wooli, one of my teachers in high school (thank you Mr. Gaskins) included the above statement into our teaching. He also stated that most everybody forgot the last part:
Right, if to keep right. Wrong, if to make right.
His point was that if you wanted to see change in an organzation you belonged to, you worked within the organzation to make it better. You didn’t attack it from outside and expect it to change. It would merely pull in its wings and become defensive and resistant to what ever it was you were attempting to change. Unless your goal was to destroy the organization. Even that could be done easier inside the organization.
Or you left the organization because it didn’t agree with your principles. And “principles” are more important than actually winning and being able to (maybe) put those principles into action.
The point that far too many Bernie supporters fail (apparently) to realize is, there are only two major parties. Even the very popular Teddy Roosevelt couldn’t overcome that (Bull Moose party). If you really want to make a difference in one of the two parties, you do what a whole lot of people have been doing for a lot of years — become a part of that organization, work your way into a position of power and lead it to the light.
The other option is to work at growing a third party — a long process of interesting others in your beliefs, working all 50 states to get your party approved and then finding and training others in your issue development. It is not done by being complacent or attempting to destroy one of the major parties without a viable alternative. But doing the work to create another party would mean becoming one of the party elites. Anathma!
Bernie and his supporters claim that because he has caucused with the Dems, he is one and has the right to sling arrows and mud against them and try to force changes. Except he has condemned the Democratic party. He has remained an Independent. The DNC, in trying to protect itself from an outsider, has resisted strongly anything that Bernie might have tried to do, since he is not really part of the group and has never worked to improve the organization or even get other Dems elected.
DNC is the Democratic Party’s organization. It isn’t the party of Independents. It isn’t the party of Republicans. The Republicans have their own.
If Bernie and his supporters truly wanted to make a change in the DNC, he/they should have become real members of the DNC, worked hard (like the Clintons have for decades) to earn trust, and work their way to the top. There, they would be positioned to lead the changes they want to bring to the platform the DNC offers to the public during election cycles.
If that isn’t obvious, remember that the two parties changed places many years ago because of the work of people that made the parties move their positions.
Suing the DNC is not doing a lot to change the DNC. It is, however, showing how much Bernie isn’t part of what he claims he now is and how much he can’t be trusted. If you want change, become the change you want to see. Suing is a Trump tactic.
Bernie supporters have shown they hate the DNC. The only other major party is the RNC. Take your pick.
Or start another and do the work necessary to become a major party. Waiting until a couple of months before the first primary/caucus isn’t the way to do it!
Of course, there is the other alternative. The people suing/slamming DNC are not really Dems but Reps who are working to destroy the DNC like Dems think Trump is working to destroy RNC. I guess we won’t know until after the elections.