My criticism of the play-left, that left which has not and still has not produced any real electoral success, has gotten the pat response that they exercise influence by being a threat to Democrats. I fail to see that tactic as having worked in any way.
Anticipating the thread-bare arguments of the play-left in advance let me head two of those off.
There is nothing more idiotic about the more than a century of lefty-third-party spoiler politics than the fact that their choice produces worse government. The idea that things would get so terrible that their imaginary force, the dialectic, would swing radically the other way is one of the more absurd delusions of intellectual pretenses. IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED. Revolutions are almost uniform in producing governments as bad if not far worse than those they replace, that is what you get from that fantasy of the play-left. That those delusions could persist among intellectuals only proves the power of a theory detached from reality to gull those who refuse to learn from observed experience.
The threat to spoil an election that turns into a spoiled election weakens Democrats, to start with, what influence the play left hopes to exercise over them is weakened even more. Preventing Democrats being elected, putting the presidency or legislative branch into Republican hands prevents them from doing anything or protecting past gains and enables Republicans through elected offices and, most perniciously, through the courts to destroy chances of Democrats winning and making the change that is needed.
There is no doubt that if Democrats took decisive control of the federal government and state governments that the Republican-fascists on the courts would do everything they could to destroy any good change that they made. Those judges and "justices" were put into power through, among other things, the tactic of the play left playing spoiler in elections against Democrats who had to listen to other Democrats and supporting independents as well as the real left (those who win office and their supporters) and the play-left whose tactic have been to keep Democrats out of office if they didn't get their way.
Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court are certainly all relevant due to the Green Party and other play lefties getting their way, keeping Al Gore and Hillary Clinton from winning their elections. And those are only the four worst consequences for the real left and the ever cutting off their own noses play-lefties.
I mentioned Michael Moore yesterday, his piece written after the Green Party fame-fucker candidate Ralph Nader enabled Jeb Bush's adminstration in Florida to steal the election for his brother, the man who used to be the worst president in modern time, George W. Bush in office.
The piece is a not-even-clever piece of jr. high level sophistry that mocks that reality by using what are the other pathetic play-lefty parties who ran candidates in Florida's presidential election that year, picking the fourth from the bottom, the Workers World Party mentioned here yesterday. I could make a number of arguments that show that Michael Moore made several rather obvious mistakes in logic - the play-lefties are really good at latching onto those to impress their fellow idiots - but one will suffice, the Greens got more than fifty times that number, his argument would apply to the Greens that much more than it would to the pathetic WWP and it was an announced tactic of the Greens to do what they, in fact did.
If you think Michael Moore and the Green style spoiler potential is not a serous problem, think about it the next time Roberts and Alito join in the next guaranteed depraved decision of the Supreme Court. If you think the Bernie or Buster, Susan-Sarandon types are not someone who have to be overcome, not won over, think about what they did the next time you bemoan a decision pushed into law by Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
Bernie Sanders will soon face the fact that he cannot hope to be the nominee of the Democratic Party, he will also face the fact that he can either work as hard to prevent being a two-times Nader traitor of the real left that can win elections, make laws and change reality or he can become the enabler of Trumpian fascism. His asshole of a campaign mananger Jeff Weaver will almost certainly opt for being the same kind of jerk he was in the wake of the 2016 disaster. But this is a choice that is Bernie Sanders' alone. He can choose to enrage the Democrats haters in his cult or he can act, soon and decisively to persuade those of his supporters who are not play-lefty spoiled brats to support Democrats up and down the ballot. It matters not a bit that that is what he would have to do to make him at all respectable in my eyes, now. I will never forgive him for sandbagging Elizabeth Warren who, like Hillary Clinton is massively more qualified to be president than just about any of the men who were in for the nomination. But I can forgive that if he finally does what he should have done for the party whose nomination he sought twice and for the real left, defeats Republican-fascism by getting as many Democrats elected as possible.
And while we're at it, the electoral power of the real left and those who can be convinced to get real is very real, too. Joe Biden and his people had better not blow their chances to get us out in large numbers in November to support Democrats. And that is get us out everywhere. Biden shouldn't, for a second, believe that his nomination is a product of the center policies he favored as a Senator for big business from Delaware, what allowed him to win over better candidates was that people thought he would get other people to vote for him over Trump. I mentioned the other day that on a ranked choice vote I would have put him after Warren but before Sanders who would have been my third choice in ranked-choice. That was because I thought he was more electable than Sanders, not because I liked his policies better than those of Sanders. If Sanders were ten or fifteen years younger and he didn't have the bull-shit Marxist and Vermont 1960s-70s radical baggage and had the same or slightly more moderate policies, I might have had a hard choice of choosing him or Warren for first place.
I think the vice-presidential candidate is going to be more important than ever in this race, the age of the candidates, I think Biden had better choose one that the real left can be enthusiastic for. I would love for that choice to be Elizabeth Warren, though there are a number of others I could feel as good about. Kamala Harris is an obvious one, Amy Klobuchar wouldn't be the worse, though I think one with more appeal to the real left would be better. Julian Castro would be good. I would prefer he not choose someone who, if elected, would weaken the Democrats Senatorial prospects. We will need to win the Senate, another reason I did not support Sanders for the nomination.
Joe Biden is going to have me nervous every time he opens his mouth though I think this election is, oddly, not going to be about Biden it's going to be an anyone but Trump election.
Michael Moore is an ass who should retire into the obscurity he has earned. The entire play-left who remain the play-left should just go do fantasy sports or something like that. Their kind of politics is the exact equivalent of those, anyway. It's not real though it can have real and disastrous consequences because they play it with real entities. People die when they do it.
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