Writes Mark Boberg:

Lew,

It occurred to me, from some history lesson somewhere in my hazy past, that the process of having only the inner party circle select the leaders (or candidates) was actually what distinguished the Bolshevik Communists in Russia at the time of the October Russian Revolution from the Mensheviks (who believed in inviting a broad number of party supporters to participate) or the social or liberal democrats, who believed in elections where the people generally participated in selecting leaders and governments.

The success of the Bolsheviks in taking over Russia and denying the broader participation in selecting leaders of the new government was supposedly the reason they were so evil, and had to be opposed by the rest of the world.

So, could it be said, that the process of the circle of inner party leaders ignoring the voice of the people in general to deny the popular choices of Trump and Sanders to advance the inner leaders choices of Hillary and Cruz, indicate the the triumph (if they succeed) of Soviet Bolshevism over popular Democracy?

So what the west spent 70 years opposing and denouncing as evil in the Soviet Union, has now become the preferred method in the west.  Makes ya wonder, who conquered whom in the cold war?

PS: Yeah, I know that in reality, the smoke-filled room method has been going on in the states for decades if not generations, i.e. Tammany Hall, Chicago, etc.