Alternet has the article What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement—An Insider’s View by Yotam Marom.

The subtitle is:

Taking a hard look at some of the self-sabotaging behaviors of the left.

This article encourages me to have some deep thoughts about how best to help Bernie to win. It also encourages me to think about my own tendency to self-sabotaging behavior. Thinking about it helps to improve performance, I hope.

I post about this article on my blog so that I will have a permanent reminder of this article. I feel that it is something that I will want to remember for a long time. My reasons for posting this are not aimed at anyone else, but myself.

Naked Capitalism has the article Clinton, Sanders, and the “Progressive Give-Up” Formula (with Clinton’s Warning of a “Grand Bargain” to Come) by Lambert Strether. He really lays it on the line.

Clinton is trying to put Sanders in the same pine box that Reagan put Mondale in; that’s her formula for victory, and may explain why she’s become so confident; after, the formula’s worked for thirty years. Sanders should give consideration to the idea of not helping Clinton do that. He might start by ignoring small ball like family leave, and pointing out that FDR won World War II (not to mention an empire, but that’s another story) by ballooning debt to unheard-of levels. FDR — a very popular and successful Democrat, as I recall — used good judgment in doing so, and served the public purpose.

Here is why Clinton is so dangerous. Sanders needs to get the courage to start telling the American public the truth about this. He can’t continue to be afraid to tackle this issue. Fear of letting the middle and poorer classes know what the rich already know is bad for the country and bad for the Sanders campaign.