I agree with Katie Porter that Elizabeth Warren should stay in the race. She is the most credible candidate in the field, the next most credible candidate Amy Klobuchar isn't, I think, as capable of uniting the Democratic Party and defeating Trump. I don't have anywhere near as much faith in Biden nor Sanders to do that, Biden is too gaff prone, demonstrably unwise in choosing to speak off script when that is something that has gotten him in trouble.
Sanders is a ballot box disaster who is Trump's and Putin's dream candidate running against him. And I have absolutely no confidence in him getting to November without another heart attack. The best Sanders will do is that perennial wet dream of the play-left, to (temporarily) take over a party structure, to win a turf battle instead of taking offices and having the power to make law and to change reality. That is what the Sanders operation run by Jane Sanders and Jeff Weaver is, something that might win a temporary turf battle to take over an organization, not something that will defeat Republican fascism. I would loathe to compare it to what even George McGovern regretted doing by way of "reform" that led to the disaster of 1972 but only because George McGovern was, in every way, a more credible presidential candidate than Sanders and George McGovern, as a real, life-long Democrat, had a claim to the party's nomination.
Yesterday Katie Porter pointed out something that occurred to even me, that Warren's small donor, heavy on the grass roots campaign might give her the ability to keep on whereas the high-donor campaign of someone like Pete Buttigeig would be more vulnerable to implosion. If Elizabeth Warren showed that she could become president on that basis, it might show a way for Democrats to fight against the Supreme Court-ACLU granted advantage to Republican-fascists in allowing billionaires to buy elections, not one that should delude anyone into thinking that those Court decisions allowing, no, encouraging the corruption of American politics by big money should not be decisively crushed into the hazardous waste they have proven to be.
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And speaking of delusional, left destroying theories of the play-left.
I remember when I took Latin when my dear old Latin teacher told me that Cato, no matter what he was speaking on would end with Cartago delenda est, Carthage must be destroyed. Looking at the Bernie Bot podcast and other media - yesterday in brawling with them, one of them came out and admitted what is so obvious from their Dear Leader, "at the end of the day, we don't care about the democratic party." Clearly Sanders doesn't enough to actually join and stay in it, treating it like a temporarily borrowed tool, borrowed from someone he doesn't care harming.
Marxists and quasi-Marxists have to be thrown out and kept out of any real American left, one made real by an ability to win enough elections to take control of governments, state, local and federal, and make change real in reality instead of on the pages of low-circulation magazines and low-viewer podcasts. There is no one running as a full-time Democrat who doesn't fit that bill better than Bernie Sanders, with the possible exception of his fellow carpetbagger Mike Bloomberg and I think he has a better chance of doing it than Bernie Sanders does.
The play-left is peopled by affluent white guys and some gals who are secure enough to ride out election cycle after election cycle, decade after decade, generation after generation arrogantly preening in their intellectual pretentions, Richard Wolff - the guest of Michael Brooks the other day as I mentioned below - has been doing it even longer than I've been watching it. As mentioned last time Bernie ran he was supporting the Putin puppet Jill Stein.
The play-left are not only people you can't depend on, they are people you can absolutely depend on sandbagging the real left that can make things real. They've been doing it since its inception. The play-left is a guaranteed loser for the real left for well over a century, going back into at least the 1880s. If we can't destroy it we certainly have to throw them out and keep them out permanently. We'd probably attract a lot of the people they dupe with success, more than those who have been driven away by our inclusion of them in the real left. I don't know if I'd go full-on Cato with that message, but you're going to be hearing it from me from now on.
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