Bernie still seems as sharp as ever.

Oh, fuck no. Obama’s leadership is what got us in this mess. He and the Clinton’s drove the Democratic party off a cliff.

They know it has no chance to pass. It’s with straight up boot licking, or they think they have a plan to bypass the amendment process.

That’s what the Trump regime wants us to think.

He pretty much did. Corporate media did him dirty, but revolutions have to assume that will be the case. I don’t give establishment Democrats any slack when they whine about media coverage or voter apathy, so I don’t give progressives any either. We gotta win a game that we know is to some extent rigged.

There is no savior coming. That’s what grass roots movements are for. It’s gotta be the people.

It will be a body of oil soon enough. Then the world will probably get on board with the new name.

In 2016 Bernie we was running as an issue candidate. Nobody, including Bernie expected him to become a serious contender against the anointed one. He came far closer than expected, close enough for Hillary to never quit whining about it. There is also no such thing as “close” in a primary because once the media declared a winner, the remaining states all avalanche to the expected nominee.

It’s hilarious that you think Carter and Bernie are all that similar. Carter was the first of the neoliberal Democrats. He had integrity, unlike the Democrats to follow, and he was solidly non-interventionist, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. Carter never had the popularity that Bernie has maintained for over a decade. No Democrat since FDR can match that.

It has to be a takeover of the Democratic party. Third party strategies are non-starters in a first past the post election system.

I think your assessment is 100% correct.

I’d sure be happy if we were just starting Bernie’s second term. With third way neoliberalism still firmly in control of the Democrats, an eventual fall to fascists was inevitable. It just happened to be this election.

This might come off as funny if it weren’t for the fact that “genocide Joe” is entirely fair.

After literal decades of trying to convince the Democratic establishment that being marginally better than the fascists isn’t “good enough”, I don’t personally have much tolerance for scolding voters. Maybe this election could have been won, but the eventual outcome was inevitable. Neoliberalism is woefully incapable of restraining fascism.

That’s not a new war. It’s the war behind all the other wars.