If, as we are being warned and as I was certain would happen, the Nevada caucus is another debacle, it should be the death of that anti-democratic atrocity. Perhaps this time it might be.
One thing I'm absolutely certain of, if anyone but Bernie Sanders comes out "the winner" in Nevada, the Bernie Bots, encouraged by the likes of Majority Report, In These Times* magazine will whip up the Bernie cult, again, risking them doing what they did in 2016, increase the chances of Trump having four more years to destroy democracy. Nothing less that the coronation of Bernie Sanders will prevent that and, sorry, but the chances of him being the nominee probably lessen from here on in. He's not even getting the numbers he got in 2016 so far and I doubt he's going to do well in the primaries held in the coming weeks.
The caucuses were the source of the bulk of Bernie Sanders' claimed wins the last time, and when he didn't, they were and are and will be the foremost generator of Bernie media conspiracy rumors and dark rumblings. I listened to Sam Seder and the idiotic dim wit he's promoting, Nomiki Konst going after Joy Reid over the fact that a lot of the worst of the fuck up in Iowa was due to "reforms" to make the process more "transparent" demanded by the Bernie Bots the DNC had on the committee to reform the system. Considering the hay Seder et al were making in whipping up a scandal over Buttigeig using the word "black" in front of a black audience, seeing these two white people going after Joy Reid a day later tripped the ol' irony meter.
I will note that in slamming him, they leave out the fact that Tom Perez tried to get rid of the caucuses, something he should have publicized far more than he did - the DNC is absolutely shitty about messaging but that's another post - and that if state parties wanted to, they could bypass mandated caucuses as a means of choosing delegates to their state and national conventions. The state legislatures of the various states have no say in how delegates are chosen. Something Konst misrepresents, I suspect because she knows the Bernie camp were instrumental in retaining them because Bernie Sanders would have disappeared in the early weeks of 2016 without the fucked up, anti-democratic caucuses and their little nook of the media would have had a lot less material to work with if there were clear and fast results such as you get with well run primary elections. Caucuses are ALWAYS FUCKED UP, ARE INHERENTLY ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, ARE ALWAYS OPEN TO INTERFERENCE.
I will state again something I noted as soon as I came back from my town caucus in 2016, that a lot of the Bernie supporters were people who I'd seen changing party registration, enrolling in the Democratic Party right before the caucus as was so stupidly allowed, here, some of whom I heard say that if Bernie Sanders didn't get the nomination they were going to vote for Jill Stein.
I was sitting with the sign-in papers right next to a Bernie Bot who had a petition for people to sign sitting right next to me. I heard a lot of these instant and temporary Democrats and what they had to say. If she hadn't been a woman, I might not have been able to resist punching one of them in the mouth as she darkly muttered, before it even started that the person who was convening the caucus was going to rig it for Hillary Clinton. I happen to have known the convener my entire life and you couldn't find a more honest or fair-minded person. That goddamend bitch didn't know him because she wasn't a Democrat and she was a new-comer in town. One who couldn't be bothered to find out who it was she was accusing of corruption. She is typical of the Bernie Bots around here who I've heard. They're the kind of people that Seder and Konst and Michael Brooks, etc. cultivate as their audience.
I'm telling you, if the Democratic left wants to ever win we are going to have to build a real, realistic left for the future that excludes these people. They are not anyone we can work with, they are not only undependable, they are treacherous.
* I really want to know who is backing their go-to guy, a foreigner from New Zealand, Branko Marcetic, who is writing hit pieces against Democrats in favor of Bernie Sanders, including Elizabeth Warren. I wonder why him doing that in INT and Jacobin (Geesh!, talk about the play-left) is not foreign interference in our elections. If it hadn't been working in concert with those who did it overtly to put Trump in office as I warned four years ago and if he wasn't doing it again, this time, I wouldn't even raise the suspicion that someone might be working to that end on the "left" through such "journalists". How about that for an alternative conspiracy theory to float? I'm beginning to think that a lot of those guys are assets of the Putin regime as we are now discovering so many were of the same gangsters when they called themselves Communists.
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