I'm still monitoring the primaries, as far as anyone can figure out what the hell is going on.
This year seems to confirm what I've been advocating since the disasters of 2016, that ALL voting be done through mail-in ballots - now we've seen, in reality, that not only is that likely to produce the highest turnout but it's also less vulnerable to disasters such as the one we face now. If the federal and state governments won't do that for the elections that are in their control, the Democratic Party should certainly do it for the one it can control, the contest for the Democratic Party nomination. I'm sure I'll be going over possible mechanisms for that, everything from having an open vote counting process to making sure that only genuine Democrats get to run for the nomination and vote for the Democratic candidate.
I'm also still monitoring the Bernie or Busters and they're as awful as they could have been predicted to be.
One of the more ridiculous of thing about that is that a lot of them have turned their anger on AOC for liking Elizabeth Warren's performance on Saturday Night Live, Michael friggin' Brooks is still obsessing over AOC's "treason," leading the chorus of cretins who comprise the college-credentialed play-left in denouncing their so recently brightest star as a sell-out because she has her sights on more than the day after today but into the future. A future in which Bernie Sanders will be a rapidly fading memory among those children of such limited attention span.
Today there's a video up of Sam Seder salivating over the prospect of old voters sheltering in their homes in Florida and Georgia and the youth-vote, believing (incorrectly) that they're immune to Covid-19 coming out to swamp them, handing those states majorities over to Sanders. I say salivating because that's what a mad dog is supposed to do. I have to say that I have not really appreciated how little use the play-lefty, quasi and actual Marxist "lefts" have for democracy except when democracy produces the results they favor. Is it any wonder how they can now and in the past be so wildly enthusiastic for dictators who never hold elections or hold elections as anti-democratic as the ones that Bernie Sanders has, largely, depended on up till now?
Then there's the disappointed opportunist and former candidate for Democratic nomination, Krystal Ball, her far more obscure fellow failed opportunist, Nomiki Konst, the The Young Schmucks, In These Times, . . . I'd include the Nation but whoever is running the thing now seems to see the die is cast and Bernie isn't going to be the only thing standing between us and four more years of Trump-McConnell. Not that the money behind it and former publisher, Vanden Huevel isn't still holding the torch for what is reportedly Putin's favorite for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders. I do have to wonder if maybe Putin, with direct control over the old KGB and other Soviet era files might have something he could release to sink a Sanders' bid far worse than the old story of Sanders in the Soviet Union as he was the mayor of Burlington, the focus of her angry diatribe. Anyone naive enough to think that's beyond the realm of possibility?
We need a real left to organize that explicitly excludes Marxists and quasi-Marxists and Bernie Bots and Greens and anyone who believes in the delusion of third parties.
We need to look at all of the venues of self-defeat and self-damage that the play-left and its dupes in the less delusional left of the past have damaged the credibilty of those who have the ability to win public office, form controlling majorities and administrations and make change real by changing laws and improving lives.
A huge amount of the myth of the left has got to be junked, anything that holds up those dear old commies as figures to be admired or pitied - keep reminding you that all of the Hollywood 10 must have known about Stalin's mass murders because they'd been exposed in accurate accounts in the Western media since the 1930s. The fans of Stalin's rival, Trotsky, were also known as was his enthusiasm for terror as an instrument of state control. He had written enthusiastically about that even before Stalin won the power struggle with him and he had practiced it in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution.
The same can be said of the Maoists and the supporters of the smaller communist dominated countries. None of those people ever merited the sympathy or support of egalitarian democrats. Mocking the Hollywood-Broadway deification of the martyrs of communism is vitally important in changing those numbskull habits of thought. As is continuing to mock the oafs of HUAC whose longest standing success is in helping with that deification of a bunch of punks and thugs and, yes, spies for Stalin.
The real left has got to be as radical as The Gospel, The Prophets and the Law, which is more radical than the Marxists ever thought of being. It has the advantage of being culturally congenial to a very large percentage of Americans, far larger than the tiny and ever diminishing fraction who will ever find Marxism congenial. The Marxists belong on the ash heap of history. Of course, that left has to be open to anyone who supports egalitarian democracy, economic justice and environmentalism radical enough to save the Earth as a viable place for us to live, no matter what their religious convictions. I wouldn't be surprised if the same truths weren't found in other religious traditions though I'm increasingly skeptical that they could be found in an effective form in any secular ideology. I think you have to really have a more durable and forceful belief in them than secularism can produce in enough people.
I would make sure that that left protect itself from Marxist infiltration, keeping in mind the entryist tactic that they've used to destroy and disable the real left in the past. We don't owe them another week, never mind another generation of distraction and defeat. We owe them the total discrediting that they've so richly deserved.
Lots of crap has flowed under the bridge in this primary season, the real left that can actually do somethin has to get shut of it once and for all.
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