and it's a shitty campaign ad of bernie telling people to vote biden and every awful neoliberal account is pushing this. Fuck Bernie Sanders. Society has progressed past the need for Bernie Sanders.
Bernie was a means to an end, and we all moved on when that means proved futile.
I will never stop Stanning the original Old Man, my boy Jeromy Corbyn.
Broke: giving Ilhan Omar a gundam, which isn't real (don't send me that giant prop in Japan I don't care}
Woke: giving Bernie Sanders a Davy Crockett
i think he's one of the muppets from sesame street
edit: my bad, i was thinking of ernie
None of us are going to listen to him so whatever.
He knows this, too. In the book "We've Got People" there's an anecdote (pre-2016 even, I think) about someone in the Democratic Party asking Bernie to get his supporters in line and his answer was essentially "that's not how this works; these people don't just fall in line behind me whatever I say."
He's probably 50/50 on seeing Trump as a legitimate threat (which is far from unreasonable) and shilling for Biden to cover the left's ass in future elections (which is probably a better use for him at this point than anything else he could do).
He did the same thing in 2016.
As someone who represents "the left" to the democrats, it isn't necessarily a bad thing that he plays along.
This doesn't mean that people should vote Biden, but we can't fault people acting within the electoralist/reformist space for making decisions that support the status quo. That is an inherent part of working within that space, and it is why it is so important to do praxis outside of that space.
we can’t fault people acting within the electoralist/reformist space for making decisions that support the status quo. That is an inherent part of working within that space
I'd say this is more precisely stated as "we can't fault people working in the electoral space for the compromises necessary to have any power in that space."
All the accounts that previously tweeted 50 tweet long threads about why Bernie is actually worse than trump are now tweeting to listen to him. love to see it
I don't think he saw a path to victory. I think Barfsack O'bungloo basically threatened that the DNC would do anything necessary to keep him out of the White House.
He had already been kneecapped by Obama and the party showed its willingness to march millions of elderly voters into superspreader events to finish the job.
I think he didn't want to risk covid deaths at the polls. That's the only reason I think he didn't go all the way to the convention. The DNC didn't postpone elections when the entire world was headed into lockdowns, if you remember. They likely held him hostage.
Why would I listen to an 80 year old who named his book after one of Trotsky's?
