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Bernie Sanders wants us to back Biden/Harris and has lost all credibility. It's now apparent the he only diverted us from forming a real party to the left of the Democratic party.
Bernie Sanders is this election's Democratic sheepdog. Sheepdogs are herders.
Bernie Sanders is this election's Democratic sheepdog. Sheepdogs are herders.
The sheepdog candidate is charged with herding voters back into the Democratic fold who would otherwise drift leftward outside of the Democratic party, trying to build something outside the two-party oligarchy box.
With Biden/Harris we get no Medicare for All, no reduction in military spending, no defunding the police, no universal free childcare, no elimination of student debt - nothing - yet Bernie told us that we the people are supposed to shut up & vote Blue.
The sheepdog is a card the Democratic party plays every presidential primary season when there's no Dem running for re-election. The sheepdog candidate runs ostensibly to the left of the establishment Democrat (the one to whom the billionaires will award the nomination).
In 84 & 88 the sheepdog candidate was Jesse Jackson. In 92 it was Jerry Brown. In 2000 & 2004 the designated sheepdog was Al Sharpton, & in 2008 it was Dennis Kucinich. In 2016 & this year it's Bernie Sanders.
The function of the sheepdog candidate is to herd left activists into the corporate-controlled Democratic party by getting them to falsely believe that there's a place of influence for them inside the party, if and only if the eventual Democratic nominee can win.
Despite casting millions of votes for the sheepdogs, the well-intentioned yet misled left activist voters are always disregarded for corporate interests when Democrats actually win.
The establishment Democrat Bill Clinton gave us NAFTA, a vicious âwelfare reform,â lowered unemployment but mostly in part time and low-wage jobs, & mass incarceration of black and brown people.
Obama bailed out the bankers & kept them out of prison during the biggest fall in black household wealth in history. Obamacare made the insurance companies richer & us poorer. He murdered with drones, renewed the Patriot Act & oversaw even more mass incarceration of poor people.
The sheepdog's job is to divert the energy and enthusiasm of activists a year, a year and a half out from a November election away from building an alternative to the Democratic party, and into his doomed effort.
When the sheepdog inevitably folds in the late spring or early summer before a November election, there's no time remaining to win ballot access for alternative parties or candidates, no time to raise money or organize any effective challenge to the two capitalist parties.
This is how the Bernie Sanders show ended, as the left-leaning warm-up act for Hillary Clinton and now for Joe Biden.
