When it comes to playing the game (the primary) that the establishment sets, it crumbles pretty much straight away from mainstream media blackout and people buying into the narrative that the establishment fed them.

Not at all – they tried this with Bernie and it wasn’t enough. It took the type of backroom dealing that’s not always possible to do him in.

If they were truly competent, someone like Bernie wouldn’t have stood a chance

Competency isn’t binary. They weren’t competent enough to strangle Bernie in his crib, but they were competent enough to circle the wagons at the last minute. They can’t always do this – see the 2016 Republican primary, where the party didn’t get its shit together fast enough to stop an outsider who they all openly despised.

No one’s saying you can’t criticize Bernie’s campaign. It’s just that criticism has to be grounded in reality to be worth anything. For example, criticizing the campaign over the Warren attack is flat-out laughable because it so obviously had no effect (Bernie immediately proceeded to have one of the best starts in primary history).

None of that has anything to do with him wiping the floor with Rat Boy and Top Cop Kamala.

This comment is a textbook example of using PoC’s preferences (as you estimate them) as a stand- in for legitimacy in your reasoning.

And is the ultimate “white college educated middle class” thing to do.

A lot of Black women are inspired to be politically engaged by Neera Tanden. Does that mean Neera Tanden is good?

This line of rhetoric is very patronizing at best, objectifying at worse.

I actually know people who are most affected by neoliberal capitalism in real life - working class POCs

“Before I make my argument, let me just say, I have lots of Black friends…”