Sometimes I get really tired of seeing through the bullshit. In this
case, it's the pretense that there will actually be an honest
competition for the Democratic Presidential nomination. The DNC has
already made it abundantly clear that they will never allow Tulsi
Gabbard or Bernie Sanders to get the nomination - and that every other
candidate is in their pocket. That particularly includes Elizabeth
Warren, who has received donations from quite a few billionaires and has
stated that she WILL accept big business donations in the general
election. She also transferred ten million from her Senatorial campaign
to her Presidential one. That ten million includes a lot of money from
businesses and the rich.
I was listening to some DNC people on NPR tonight, and the plan was so
obvious that it was painful: they're going to ram Biden down everyone's
throat, with a token minority VP - probably Harris, Buttigieg, or Booker
- to give themselves an SJW club to beat down angry progressives.
"Unity" will be brayed at progressives day and night. Progressive
discussion groups will be subverted, taken over, or shut down. The
attempt to guilt progressives and paint them as responsible for Trump
will be ceaseless. Obama will be rolled out to support Biden, and we'll
get lots of identity politics and egregious virtue-signaling.
Unfortunately Bernie has already made it clear that he'll play ball with
the DNC's plans, and will campaign vigorously for whoever the DNC
anoints. He'll be a broken man at that point, presumably, but it won't
matter. He'll be finished.
None of this takes much imagination. It's exactly what happened in 2016, with different names.
Biden will probably end up losing, and the DNC will blame progressives
until human civilization collapses (probably in about thirty years or
so).
If for some reason Biden falls through, Warren is clearly the DNC's next
choice. After that they have Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, Gillibrand,
Klobuchar, and the third tier of corporatist toadies. In any case, the
DNC is the best friend that Trump could ever have; they'll gladly hand
him the Presidency again as long as they can keep progressives split,
confused, and disorganized. Forestalling an anti-capitalist populist movement is the DNC's primary purpose.
Personally, I see the real question as being one of human survival. Our
species is in clear medium-term jeopardy; we are within a decade of the
point of no return, if we're not already there. Billions are going to
die if we don't take radical action, including ending the fossil fuel
industry and embarking on an unprecedented remaking of human
civilization to allow our species to have a survivable future.
None of the DNC's candidates will tolerate the sort of drastic action
necessary for us to avoid extinction. Period. Trump will kill us a bit
earlier, but the oligarchs that the DNC serves are implacably opposed to
the sort of worldwide movement that is our only option for survival.
The DNC and RNC are working for humanity's extinction, whether or not
they admit it to themselves. Supporting human extinction is something
that I absolutely refuse to do. I will not be supporting Biden, Harris,
Buttigieg, Booker, Gillibrand, or Klobuchar. The only candidates that I
would support are Gabbard or Sanders, as those are the only two who
offer any hope that my (not yet born) grandchildren will survive.
Otherwise I'm voting Green. The Greens were right all along. They
deserve credit for that. I'm quite sure that the votes will be rigged
and the Presidential results will be falsified to show virtually no
votes for the Greens, but at least I will know that I didn't participate
in the genocide of our species.