“Sometimes people say, you know, you’re 78, all that stuff, and you’ve been doing this for a long time — But should I be quitting now? When you look out and you talk to these beautiful, beautiful young people who want to move this country forward in such a decent, humane way, it really does inspire me. And to the degree that I have gotten those folks involved in the political process, yeah, I am very proud of that. I don’t know that I’ve ever done anything in my life more important than that.”
you're right on the last point, i think.
but I also believe that at the end of the day "left unity" and "death to America" are mutually exclusive when it comes to social democracy. not even once.
Bernie's angle had class conscious connotations, but was more "MAGA" than anything else.
If "recogniz[ing] class divisions and apply[ing] materialist analysis" in Congress just means the occasional :20 second clip of AOC roasting some old rich CEO or Trump fall guy on CSPAN, then I'm not sure we're going to get anywhere through these "means".