They're so used to paying lip service to it, I'm now suspecting. They know the policies they're going to run are going to be fukked for the people, so they send out some "mother" or "father" type of politicians to play the protector. It's the byproduct of empathy. I pretty much mastered it when I used to do client relations at call centers. When you seem empathetic to people, their anger drops substantially.
So they try to play the same bullshyt with Warren, acting like the Obama figure this time. However, since Bernie was out of the loop, he actually took the bullshyt seriously, but thought with how different Warren and Hillary was, along with Warren's popularity, she would run. That was his first big mistake, but he still caught the fake motherfukkers off guard. No one wanted to really tip their hands, until it looked serious. It's fukking serious, and now they have the full force of the establishment trying to destroy Sanders, and don't care that it will be called journalistic malpractice later.
There's trillions of dollars in kickbacks and the true beginning of the oligarchy at stake. If Bernie gets the people woke, this is a wrap for all the windfalls with taxpayer money, to gave them retire later, have more exploding student loan debt for fewer options, and their main care is health.
The funny thing is Obama's chess game caused the very thing the establishment was trying to prevent. Had he slow walked his struggle more, and had some decent successes, he could've easily passed the baton to Hillary as a continuation and another first. His acting was good, but the people pointed to massive corruption of the GOP as the reason he had so much trouble passing legislation for them. So when they see Hillary with a lot of those same ties, they buck.
This could be a permanent fracture of the party. If people continue to think Bernie was done dirty, that I intend to make sure they do, Hillary would either have to stay to the left or face a rebellion. She's likely only serving 1 term too. I have to see how New York plays out, in every facet from the coverage, debates, to any voting bullshyt. 3rd party's coming though.