Majority Report At Its Deluded Worst

As I've said, I like a lot of what they say on Majority Report, I mostly like their staff, though I think Jamie Peck is a harmful idiot.   I realized the other night, after writing what might be the last farewell to my previous experimental example that they might be my new example of what is wrong with the left.  At least in their case there's also some there which is what's right with the left, too.

That said, this segment with "Virgil Texas" that was posted as "The Difference Between Elizabeth Warren And Bernie Sanders" contains such a high bullshit to substance level that it's pretty much what's wrong with the New York City style left than which there are few lefts in the country more prone to fatally flawed delusion.

To start with, I don't know much of anything about "Virgil Texas" who is listed as Gamer, Co-Host Chapo Trap House, which for all I know is the kewelest of kewel current things but the guy seems to be more firmly based in gamer delusion than in any real reality.  I wouldn't say he's much less of an idiot than Jamie Peck.

I may go into details about this later but wanted to post this and point out a few things, SUCH AS THE FACT THAT FUCKING BERNIE SANDERS ISN'T A DEMOCRAT HE HAS NO BUSINESS TRYING TO GET THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT.  Given the damage that his campaign, his wife, his manager, his cult did the last time, GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE'S THE POLITICAL EQUIVALENT OF 148 YEARS OLD, he shouldn't be running for president under any identity.   The same goes for Biden and Bloomberg who, as well, are the political equivalent of 148 years old, though Biden, at least, has the fact that HE HAS BEEN A DEMOCRAT HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL CAREER to make him the least unqualified of all of them.

Elizabeth Warren has what none of them has much of a chance of being, a Democratic President who might take enough seats in the Congress to end Republican-fascist domination.  She's not the only one but Bernie Sanders has absolutely no chance of doing that, the extent to which the Majority Report team promotes his candidacy is the extent to which they are doing exactly what Howard Schultz was accused of doing by that guy at Barnes and Nobel.

Jamie Peck should go read that trusty old history of the American left, The Long Detour by James Weinstein, in which she would see that the biggest enemy that the one and only successful Socialist Party had were the Marxists.  Though there are other socialisms that have been terrible for the reputation of socialism, the Marxists have been fatal to socialism being acceptable to an effective margin of voters in the United States.  We saw Marxism with power all during the 20th and into the 21st century.  The paper on that experiment is written in blood.  There is no prospect of a Marxist or Marxist influenced socialism ever gaining power OR ELECTIVE OFFICE in the United States.  And "socialism" the word, itself, has been irretrievably damaged by that association.  The old Socialist Party was more successful at the ballot box in Oklahoma and Kansas than it was the industrial North East, back then.  But that was on the power of the old Socialism, not least of which was Christian socialism,  before it was so discredited.  It has no prospect of ever succeeding anywhere under that name and with those associations.

Young Jamie might feel all brisk and frisky and lefty over the frisson of scandal and worry and excitement that having a real, officially named "Socialist Party" might be, as opposed to the Democratic Party, but she should look up how many of those there are and have been in the United States in the last century, especially since the Marxists destroyed the old and moderately successful Socialist Party in the late summer of 1919.  The assholes who were at the center of that, Katterfeld and Wagenknect never produced anything of any importance for any working person anywhere, they were party hacks and, in Katterfeld's case, an ineffective anti-religious yahoo latching onto science.  My guess is any political effectiveness he had would have been in enhancing the power of fundamentalists in the coming decades.  The guy was a putz.

My guess is that both of them acted at the direction of Lenin and Trotsky as much as Trump does at the direction of Putin, and to pretty much the same end, the attempted enhancement of Russian dictators and gangsters.   And that's not to mention that total asshole, John Reed.

"Socialist" parties, after the one destroyed by them in 1919, can't even be called dime a dozen because none of them were ever worth even a fraction of a cent.

The word "socialist" is a hindrance to the idea of economic justice and an aid to capitalism of the worst kind.  It might make the Jamie Pecks of the world feel all brisk and frisky but anyone who doesn't realize there are more important things at stake are idiots and should be dumped.