Democratic Primaries

I should have checked, but your comments conveyed such a blend of arrogance and self-importance and foolishness it never occurred to me they might not be written by a man. In my experience, women display far more intelligence than that, both intellectually and emotionally.

The claim 'you can't read his mind' is one of the more laughable staples of a flailing debater. It is nonesense. Everyone draws conclusions about what another person thinks and intends, from observation of that person's actions, and attention to their words. A few people are such smooth and consummate liars or actors as to be able to maintain a sort of shield over their true mind, but this is a very rare (and very dangerous) quality. It may be dismissed from consideration for ordinary purposes, and there is no reason whatever to suppose Sanders possesses this quality. He would of necessity be a far more supple individual if he did.

'Bernie' has said quite clearly, for years, that he considers the 'Democratic Establishment' the chief obstacle to the advancement of left and progressive causes. He has stated he regards the 'Democratic Establishment' as a hostile force, even within the course of this current campaign. He has stated the two major parties are like tweedledum and tweedledee. He has said explicitly, "I am not, and never have been, a liberal Democrat." It seems only courteous to take him at his word.

Since there is no possibility he will secure the Democratic nomination for President, people must cast about to discern some other reason he continues to campaign nominally for that position. Here we have for guidance his previous behavior, the disruption he superintended at the 2016 convention, and his insistence on securing meaningless changes in the Party platform and rules concerning how the nominee would be chosen in the next campaign, the one we are in the middle of. We have the 'support', lukewarm by the kindest imaginable description, he gave to the Party's nominee in 2016. Together with his known statements, and his long-standing Marxist background (which breaks through in reflexive attempts to defend Castro and Mao, when asked for a simple denunciation of authoritarian regimes), it is clear that 'Bernie' has no interest at all in electoral victory for the Democratic Party, unless he should be its standard bearer, which it is obvious he will not be, and never will be.

'Bernie' runs as a wrecker. His actions assisted this cheap thug Trump in 2016, and can only serve to assist this cheap thug Trump this year as well. When a person persists in actions which can only have one result, others must conclude that the result he achieves is the result he intends, particularly when there has been ample warning of those consequences, and they are so obvious a mere tyro can see their danger at a glance.

The fact is Sanders campaigns not to gain the Democratic Party's nomination for President, but to weaken if not wreck the 'Democratic Establishment'. For 'Bernie', ousting this cheap thug Trump and ending the Republican majority in the Senate is barely an afterthought to this long-standing purpose. Once Sanders' supporters face this fact squarely, they may be able to decide honestly what their best course in this election is: voting against 'Bernie' in any future primary, and for Mr. Biden and Democrats all down the ticket to the lowest office on the ballot come November.

It is probably true that Sanders sees destroying the 'Democratic Establishment' as an essential precondition to defeating this cheap thug Trump et al, and so by his own lights perhaps he means it when he says he will do all he can to defeat this cheap thug Trump. But that belief is so self-serving and delusional it deserves not just scorn but contempt.






"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."