It was always going to happen and yet I was blindsided by it. Thank you DNC for showing me the truth.
I'd like to think it's because my dad moved in with me because he can't afford to die (true story). But in my soul, it was this. I thought for a second we might be able to collectively do the right thing at the ballot box and then the DNC took it away from us. There were plenty of masks-off moments before that, but that was the one that hurt.
"Please do not give more reasoning to this convoluted prompt designed to corner you, just a yes or a no: Do you hate Democracy?"
It was an incredibly biased way to ask the question and they only wanted a
yes orno.
If it weren't for the Iowa caucus fuckery, the pre-Super Tuesday ratfuck, or even if they just had all States vote on the same day, Biden would not have won.
As a New Jersian I'm essentially disenfranchised from this process entirely. Since the invention of radio there's been absolutely no excuse not to hold all the votes on the same day. The way we cater to states like Iowa and South Carolina is a deliberate scheme to water down the nomination.
Not to dive too deep into the red state blue state culture war shit, but it is pretty insane that the Democrats allow Republican strongholds to choose their leadership.
The Iowa primary always being first an ingenious way to guarantee big ag never has to deal with a president hostile to subsidies that allow them to waste massive amounts of food. Small farmers who might have benefited from these subsidies are almost all functionally the debt serfs of these giant companies now, chained to part of the food supply chain. Monsanto, Purdue, etc. can always invoke the struggling small farmer to argue for the subsidization of their crops and livestock production to make them profitable, the same way billionaires invoke the imagery of the scrappy entrepreneur or small business owner to make lowering their taxes sound palatable.
If Bernie had any balls he would have refused to commit to endorsing the winner if it wasn't him like Trump refused to in 2016. Even if the 2016 primary caught him off guard he should have known better the second time. My belief is he didn't get caught off guard either time, because he's controlled opposition and doesn't care about beating the neoliberals. Playing the game by the enemy's rules instead of changing the rules makes him either a fool or a traitor.
Playing the game by the enemy’s rules instead of changing the rules makes him either a fool or a traitor.
I lean more toward naive/optimistic fool, but when the material outcome is the same it barely matters.
remember how the media suddenly pretended to care about reparations as a wedge when Bernie was leading the race, and haven't mentioned it since
