“The national committee leaders — 56 people — held 50 percent of the voting power, with party members accounting for the other 50 percent. Several Sanders supporters called for the Working Families Party to release the full vote totals, which it has declined to do.” So much for “one person one vote” This setup is reminiscent of the DNC “superdelegates” arrangement where an elite leadership cadre can out vote the the thousands of regular members.
Why would the WFP leadership “decline” to reveal the real vote totals and why would 56 people have as many “real” votes as all the rest of the voting members of the party. The NYT has previously reported that polls indicate the Sanders mass base is basically a multi-racial working class one while Warren, progressive Democrat that she is, has a different mass base of mostly white college educated middle and upper middle class (i.e., petty bourgeois) adherents and will not be as tough against Wall Street as Sanders. Her views that the capitalist system is basically the best one to solve the problem of working people goes against the real class interests of working families while Sanders views on socialism is something working people need to hear and that the WFP should have welcomed as it did in 2016 (it is now under new and apparently not as politically advanced leadership). There is only one progressive voice for working people in this primary season and that is Bernie Sanders. If he loses the nomination then is the time to consider which of the capitalist candidates is the best alternative to take on Trump. The Working Families Party should not come out for its class enemy, no matter how left she is with respect to other capitalists, while there is even a hint of a more progressive socialist message available. For everything there is a season.
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