solidgold wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 10:07 pm
blindpig wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 2:17 pm
Super Tuesday: 'At Stake Is the Soul of the Democratic Party'
Indeed. Well, they can turn off the klaxons, stand down the ninjas, the situation has returned to normal. The danger of a socialist revolution has been averted. From here on the Word will be 'socialism has been rejected by the American People'. End of Story. How this will play with the Bernie Bros remains to be seen, while we've seen this movie they do seem a bit more militant baa-baas this time. We'll see.....
Bernie sounds upbeat, more so than two days ago when a socialist revolution was being predicted. Who wants that? Certainly not Bernie. So then, back to the script. Back to the sheepdog business. Now Bernie has got somebody to surrender to and deliver up the sheep.
The Democratic Party would rather go down in the putrid flames of a dumpster fire that is the man formerly known as the Senator From Mastercard and endure Four More Years of disagreeable optics from Cheeto Man than allow that there might be anything good and acceptable about socialism.
Besides, most of their disdain for the chumpster is the optics anyways. And that ' Soul of the Democratic Party', it is firmly ensconced on the heart of murderous Capital, where it was born and where it will die.
Heard a mix of things: voter suppression in Texas, Bernie not appealing to black voters, young people not coming out, Elizabeth Warren not dropping out. I don't think the last one is making as much of a difference as the B-bros think. Meanwhile, Biden is malfunctioning before our eyes. Oof. What a truly shitty party.
Not really sure if it's optics or they actually think Biden has a chance against Trump. 'Cause he straight up doesn't.
I think there are multiple threads and none (maybe one) have to do with personality:
1. Ever wonder why the Dems consistently turn a blind eye to voter suppression (which is a euphemism btw) on a massive scale -- even when it more or less seals their own fate? Now you know.
1a. Elections are being decided on the
margins. Anaxarchos called it "point shaving" and that is how the game is played. Four years ago, blacks in Detroit don't turn out like they did for Obama, people who are worse off than four years before break heavily and -- boom -- you get Trump. The system isn't really prepared for a "wave of enthusiasm" (which even Trump did not enjoy) or, to call it more properly, a Wave of Animus. One thing you can't fault worker's for is we hate those fuckers. All of them.
2. Much as putting down Sanders was a sign of party strength (and, conversely, the rise of Trump was a sign of fractures and weakness in the Republican Party) the same thing is playing out again jsut as it was bound to -- as nothing was settled last time. The difference is that the consequences are even more severe this time -- how do they hold together parties that are moving from fraying to unraveling at the seams?
2a. Social crisis, economic crisis, .., can't forestall political crisis forever even in the seat of Empire. Trump is the perfect incarnation of the obscenity of American power. The Empire has no hair piece. But believe this -- it can and will get FAR worse. (eg Not too long now before England declares itself a "Christian" nation).
3. Now what? 'Bernie' looks like toast and with him the idea that the groundswell of sentiment behind him can be diverted into the confines of the DP. The underlying conditions aren't going away -- so "Now What?" NB this also means, from the perspective of the Dems Party of Order, that there is little hope of any rapproachment -- they've proven and are proving again that they'll break their own back to spite their spine. There was open talk of "capital strikes" against Sanders until yesterday's jubilee.
3a. Serious soul searching needed on the part of BAR and all fellow travelers. Black folks are clinging to a walking (well, shambling) cadaver who is clinging to the coat tails of Obama. And it's NOT because they're stupid or because they're being (uniquely) manipulated. Far too much claptrap about the Greens and running third party. Their establishment counterparts (think
The Root) are dunking all over them right now. And this within the context that black people KNOW Joe Biden (although not exactly in the way Jim Clyburn was implying lol).
3b. Virtually NO ONE took the right lesson from Corbynism (short lived as it was). Corbyn swept to power as an anti-establishment figure. But his timidity, vacillation, and ties to the Party of Order (to borrow from Marx) were glaring from the get go -- and the hard right filled the vacuum.