Even outside of the left/right dynamic Biden’s cabinet choices are a big sign of the decay within the party. The patronage networks are full up of people who aren’t competent or popular as the failures keep piling up from administration to administration. There also aren’t enough seats to go around as the dems population base is completely disproportionate to the amount of territory they control. It’s going ratchet up the pressure for the bottom of the party to cannibalize the top, but not necessarily along ideological lines as even the moderates aren’t going to have a career path unless they can make people like John Kerry fuck off.
i do enjoy the idea of a close biden ally begging them to put sanders in a position or at least trying to do that so they could not look bad and get some goodwill for putting him in a position where he would not be able to do anything by himself and biden refusing to do even that
Bernie would not be able to do anything by himself
This is why I think he shouldn’t even touch this fucking admin. He would be throwing away the idea of outsider
He would be throwing away the idea of outsider
Bernie has always been way too civil, and it’s doubtful that he’s going to kick the habit enough to take a cabinet position and regularly reporting publicly on how the neo-lib bureaucracy prevents any of his meaningful reform from taking effect. He’d get a heart-attack gun for pushing people away from electoralism too effectively.
like i think that biden will be like obama in that his opponent fucked the economy and the country and he is going to take the heat for it while doing nothing so yeah it is a bad idea and if they ever do give bernie a position in the admin it is so they can use bernie’s reputation for their advantage
Promising influence in the new government to a faction only to snuff them out of important cabinet positions has been a normal strategy of Political Parties in Liberal democracies for like a century, and still people play along with that
But real politicians can’t be that stupid, right? Bernie knew he was fucked the moment he gave up the primary, right?
Bernie is 100% democrat, like we could argue if the Squad of 4 is good or bad, but bernie since his support of the bombing of yugoslavia has shown himself as pro party line of the dems, from supporting their iraq war budgets to calling Biden a good friend, i dont think a Bernie presidency would have been too diferent to a normal democrat one.
Bernie would have continue the anti-china rhetoric but with socialist critique, the troops would still be overseas, he would prabaly start a war, the only diference is that the USA would have better welfare programs, but to anyone of us in the Global South we would still be under threat of imperialism by Sanders USA
i dont think bernie minds too much losing, since now he has shown the dems he can trick the working class into voting against their class interest by voting dems and getting nothing
Ah yes, we are fucked either way, but I would have liked 80k working class randos not dying for medical debt. And maybe moving the disgusting “overton window” slightly to the left in the most influencing superpower for us, latams.
The fucking US president saying “healthcare insurance companies are evil” would have a big impact on our own governments’ relationships with our own healthcare insurance companies .
Or so I want to believe.
Yeah he’d in all likelihood have been like a cuddlier version of Carter - still the same destructive genocidal shit going on under a kind starry-eyed grandpa facade. For US citizens things would have definitely gotten a bit more bearable.
I really think this old dude is easier to convince to vote for Bernie than affluent libs.
Because this dude probably remembers and wants back workers having a decent living.
Libs are more Reaganists than +70 yo grandpas
