I have about given up any hope that the self-designated left will ever grow up, I've been waiting for decades for even the hardest of experience to show that they will and every single time they get a chance to show that, they prove themselves ready to take of on some quest, obvious at the start of it to have the slightest of hopes of succeeding, and I have never, once, seen one of those get to where it was going, they always get knocked off before they make contact with that first windmill. They were bad enough when such a left lived mainly through small-circulation journals, mostly centered in New York and other large cities, some of it coming from the artificial hot houses of unreality that college based "radicalism" is. None of it accomplishes much other than damage the real left that can win office, take control of government and do good things.
This one we've got this year, the collective airing of the secular, play-lefties daddy issues in the Bernie Sanders sequel may count as the stupidest of them, yet. He is:
A. Very likely to die before the election, having recently had a heart attack in his late 70s. If he does so after becoming the nominee or right before election day, then what? Our elections system doesn't make any kind of provision for that.
B. He is very likely to have his past as a supporter of Marxism used to red-bait him out of contention - what they did 48 years ago to George McGovern who had never gave the fascists the gift that Bernie's self-generated CV is for them.
And if it's not that there's the corpus of his stream-of-consciousness bull shit writing and babbling.
C. It's almost not worth bringing it up, since Bernie Sanders never will be elected president, but once he was in office the astro-turf "Tea Party" effort against him would make the one mounted to sink the Democrats and to effectively make him a lame duck from day one is a sure bet. As RMJ pointed out, if, as would be likely, a Bernie Sanders candidacy would ensure that Mitch McConnell would remain running the Senate, his appointments would almost certainly not be approved, certainly none of his judicial appointments.
And that's only the beginning of the total idiocy of the Bernie Sanders re-run that has the devotion of so many, especially the callow young who are, as it turns out, a pretty unreliable base for making change or even keeping what we've got.
I have similar qualms about a Pete Buttigeig nomination, though in that case it's a matter far more of him being a gay man than anything in his quite conventional CV that would give the Republican-fascists their best material. If Bernie Sanders at the top of the ticket would damage the chances of Democrats farther down the ticket, I think Buttigeig there would have a, perhaps, less damaging effect but it would have a very real one. Remember that stupid woman who, immediately after supporting Mayor Pete in the caucus was informed that he's a gay man married to a man and she wanted to take her vote back? Well, there are plenty more of that kind out there and those who would never support him because he's gay and they knew enough to know that.
I reject Biden for many of the same reasons I reject Sanders, who adds in his inability to not say and do incredibly stupid stuff while campaigning. It's like he has an irresistible inclination to say and do stupid stuff, especially stuff that will damage his standing with women, members of other minorities, especially those whose support is not optional for the Democratic Party. Joe Biden is a typical straight-white-male of his generation for whom straight-white-men are the default person that they think about and about who his concern is focused. He's something like Barack Obama for whom that default person was a person of wealth and power and influence and fame. Especially if they were Republicans. Biden has proven himself incapable of getting past the same mindset he had when he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee that gave us the smearing of Anita Hill.
There is no candidate who the Republicans will not go after but the one who has proven that she can handle herself well under such attack is Elizabeth Warren. I will focus on her instead of Bernie Sanders and his cult who are hell bent on destroying her chances as they cling to their Bernie. But where do they go if Bernie Sanders has another heart attack and has to leave the race? Apparently the idiots never thought of that.
I will say that after their recent crap, the secular-play-left is dead to me. Even if we have some miracle and Elizabeth Warren becomes president with a Democratic Congress, I hope she does so without the help of the play-left so she can totally ignore it. They're mostly a bunch of middle class to affluent, straight, white-guys or women who are associated with the same mindset, though interestingly few of those, considering. That they are really not part of the reliable Democratic base is not really that surprising. We should build the Democratic Party of the future counting on getting shut of them, entirely. They've done nothing but damage us.
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