Narrated by H. Jon Benjamin… this might actually slap.
Highlighted presenters at end of video:
- Bernie Sanders
- Chelsea Manning
- Cornel West
- Slavoj Zizek
- Richard Wolff
- Stephanie Kelton
- Nick Kelton
- Mike Gravel
Thats a very strange group. It seems they’re trying to radicalise people by offering Bernie and Gravel as the friendly succdems, while working with Wolff, Manning and Zizek, who are considerably further left. I’m all for it though, I think it’s a good idea - I’m just surprised Bernie agreed to this, after bending over backwards for the democrats since the primaries ended.
I’m just surprised Bernie agreed to this, after bending over backwards for the democrats since the primaries ended.
Bernie campaigning for Biden will inoculate future left candidates against accusations of acting as spoilers, the way Bernie campaigning for Hillary in 2016 strangled a thousand “he cost us the election” articles in the crib in 2020. That’s the game you play when you lose; they’ll just fuck you over harder if you try to take your ball and go home.
He obviously doesn’t buy what Biden is selling (he ran against the guy), and he probably sees this as something that could help another big-tent leftist candidate in the future.
They still tried to make it stick, but it never really caught on – if it had, Bernie wouldn’t have been the frontrunner on the eve of Super Tuesday. “I did 40 events for Hillary” is a pretty effective counter.
If you’re on the left and you are part of the Democratic party, you will have to make compromises. That’s as true for Bernie as it is for AOC as it is for Lee Carter. I get why folks here want these politicians to go at the DNC with both barrels but they do that and they won’t be in power. Question is whether you think compromises are worth having leftist politicians in positions of power. Frankly IMO Bernie endorsing Biden kinda sucks but that’s exactly the kind of compromise that has to be made and isn’t really that big a deal.
