I have said from the start of this, repeatedly and will repeat it as many times as necessary that if Bernie Sanders were the nominee of my party, the Democratic Party - the only person who will stand between the world and the United States and four more years of Donald Trump - I will certainly vote for him. If he could put much of his program into law, I'd be thrilled and I would revise just about everything I said about him but the prospect of that reaches the finding a unicorn in my back yard when I look out the window level of probability. And I face that fact even as I wish it were really possible.
I have over and over asked that Bernie Sanders and his cult pledge the same thing if someone else is the nominee. There are Sanders supporters who have made that promise, there are many who have said that they will never vote for the Democratic nominee if it isn't Sanders. I'm unaware of Sanders pledging to do that, himself, though I have found he promised that if elected he would remain in the party for the duration of his term of office. Sort of a lukewarm thanks for a party that allowed him to become president but better than nothing.
That very brief look at the total and abject idiocy and damaging futility that is the history of Marxism and almost all of various "socialisms" in American History leads me to think of two things, which may or may not overlap.
It's possible to look at the futile waste of time and resources and lives on those scores and hundreds of "parties" and "movements" and factions and, just about what all of them really were, cults and shake your head at the waste of what that energy, commitment and effort spent on something worthwhile could have done if put to something useful. If the left had worked together on a worthy list of goals we would certainly be more likely to have avoided most of the disaster of the past fifty-two years and counting that has brought us from Nixon through Reagan and the Bushes, Gingrich, McConnell and Trump. And the stinking awful courts that came with them.
You look at the idiocy and you feel like dope slapping all of them into sense as they carried on like the Three Stooges using borrowed material and producing crap only theirs isn't innocuous or frivolous. It's been enormously damaging and discrediting of the American left and, yes, to socialism.
Only maybe such people were never emotionally or mentally predisposed to do anything else and they would have done the same damage internally in the Democratic Party and, while it was too stupid and damaging to progress to call it "good," maybe them being all wrapped up in their play-parties and internal jr. high level spats saved the Democrats from a lot of headaches and even worse damage that would have come by having them inside. The Bernie Sanders cult has certainly not been helpful for that while it's been trying to follow the Trotskyite plan of entryism. When you look at the biographies of the major figures of Marxism and socialism, you find a few people you can imagine might have had more productive lives if they hadn't gotten all wrapped up in Marxist, Leninist, Trotskyite, Maoist, etc. theory. But most of them were a bunch of real jerks.
Bernie Sanders had enough to him to do what none of them ever managed to do, get himself elected to office. That counts for something, I don't totally dismiss Bernie Sanders, as you can read in my side-bar, until he started the bull shit presidential runs as a carpetbagger, he was listed among those I used to admire. I think he'd probably have been a far more effective Democrat if he hadn't gotten so enamored of all of that theoretical bull shit. But he made his choices in life and he reaches the end of it as a product of his choices. This last one is about the worst one he's ever made.
Update: I am reading comments from her fellow Bernie supporters slamming AOC for liking Elizabeth Warren's Saturday Night Live appearance. I'm half expecting that they'll be doing that on The Young Turks and Majority Report today. Just to prove the point made last night about how his greatest fan boys and gals would turn on him if he ever did what they hate in politicians the most, achieve high office. It reminds me of how many of AOC's biggest fan boys and gals turned on her when she wouldn't dump on Nancy Pelosi. They especially do this when it's a woman. They're all a lot more Cenk than they'd want anyone to say. I include the gals among them in that.
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