2016 Postmortem

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Sanders has called for a movement that addresses many issues...broadly economic and social justice and the re-establishment of democracy by ending the control of oligarchs and the mechanisms they've used to capture and maintain control.

Civil disobedience as it's roots imply is aimed at -refusal to obey- authority and its structures. Civil disobedience is aimed at changing a target of authority, it isn't intended to establish and maintain a political organization capable of governing. Sanders hasn't spoken at all about acting against civil authority.

Civil disobedience writ large is denial of the authority of existing government itself. That's not what Sanders has suggested. Sanders isn't talking about throwing away the constitution, he's talking about working inside it to insure that government can't be captured by a syndicate of elites and used only for their selfish purposes.

It seems to me the next step is formalizing a political coalition and developing a rennovation plan that remodels the party of the people. In other words that's an -inside- job. It's not a confrontation intended to coerce from the outside.