The whining and whinging on the Bernie Bot podcasts and other media over the "fucking unfairness" of two life-long Democrats dropping out and giving their support to another Democrat whose political positions are close to theirs is rather hilarious, considering the same Bernie Bots are whining and whinging that Elizabeth Warren won't do the same in support of their man-god, daddy-issues cult figure who was never a real Democrat and whose candidacy sandbagged her clear intentions of getting the nomination of - wait for it - THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WHICH SHE IS AN ACTUAL MEMBER OF, UNLIKE BERNIE SANDERS.
I have made no secret of it, I'm an Elizabeth Warren supporter because she is the candidate farthest to the left who has a right to seek the Democratic nomination and the best chance to win the election as Bernie Sanders is a guaranteed loser of it. I will vote for her for the nomination and hope her rumored strategy of waiting the old men out works. It might be a long shot but what the last two days have proved, you have no idea what's coming next in this election. I wish Buttigieg and Klobuchar had dropped out a few weeks ago - though there was no reason for them to - it would make things a lot less wacky than they were going to be. But, then, as I confessed the other day, I wish the three oldest men in the race had to drop out, too.
It's a crazy race. These are insane times.
One thing I intend to fight for it is the total reform of the Democratic nominations process to a. keep out non-Democrats, both running in it and voting in it. It's a Democratic nomination, it should be Democrats only. b. to institute a system that takes the early voting out of the hands of Iowa and New Hampshire and Nevada, three very small states which do not have a history of responsible processes or reliable results. If you want a good example of that, look at the list of candidates on the New Hampshire ballot this year. It's time for the Democratic Party to take direct control of the primary process and get it out of the hands of state parties and state governments. That process isn't working to get candidates who win regularly. I have focused on the damage to democracy that the Supreme Court did with their rulings guaranteeing money and lies with swamp the public good and the truth but a lot of the damage that Democrats did was done on the basis of "reforming" the system starting after 1968 as one stupid "reform" after another was instituted and gave us which ever weak candidate got the nod in New Hampshire or Iowa.
It's going to be a long and scary and discouraging year. We are putting our hopes in two quite elderly men, one who will certainly be a disaster especially down the ticket, Sanders, the other to put it charitably hardly at his top form. I think the most rational thing anyone looking at that can do is to at least support the alternative while pledging to vote for whoever the nominee is. I will hold my nose and vote for Sanders if I have to even though that means doing what his stinking awful cult wants me to do because the alternative is far worse. I would vote for Biden hoping against hope that he chooses a really good Vice President because I doubt he would serve out the term. I think she, among all of them, has proven that she is open to doing very unorthodox things to overcome Republican-fascism, including appointing more than nine members of the Supreme Court - completely Constitutional and something which has been done before. I certainly think a DNC under her influence would take the radical steps necessary to protect the Party from carpetbaggers and the hegemony of Iowa and New Hampshire. She'd certainly get rid of the caucuses once and for all, though I think after Iowa that might be done, anyway.
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