Bernie Sanders keeps licking that boot
From raising money for a senile bully to endorsing a cop in the midst of
anti-police riots...you've come a long way, comrade!
Yasha Levine
Aug 12
Gotta say it's been quite a journey watching Bernie Sanders go from revving
up a grassroots campaign that energized young people in America in a way
that hadn't been seen in several generations.to shilling for a drooling
bully and, now, a spiteful cop.
Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders
Congratulations to @KamalaHarris, who will make history as our next Vice
President. She understands what it takes to stand up for working people,
fight for health care for all, and take down the most corrupt administration
in history. Let's get to work and win.
August 11th 2020
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It was clear back in March that Bernie didn't have what it takes to lead a
real political movement in a time of massive uncertainty and political
upheaval. He wasn't flexible enough - and in the end, he simply didn't have
the fight in him. After getting stomped by a juiced-up Joe Biden in the last
Democratic debate, he sold out his supporters at the snap of the finger -
even as the pandemic was starting to rage across America. It was depressing
to watch then, and it gets more and more depressing every time he does it.
My only comment on Bernie's total capitulation to the neoliberal Democratic
Party is this: Imagine if Gennady Zyuganov didn't just lose to a clinically
deceased Boris Yeltsin in a clearly fixed election back in 1996, but
actually went out campaigning for him. Imagine Zyuganov telling all the
starving pro-Communist Party pensioners that had been impoverished by
Yeltsin's neoliberal shock therapy to go to the polls and vote for Yeltsin
because Yeltsin can be pushed to the left. That's Bernie. That's what
Bernie's been doing.
Don't worry, grandma. Biden will get us out of this. Bernie says Biden is
leftwing!
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To be honest, I'm not even sure why Bernie does it. No one's threatening him
or his family. Why not keep pestering the assholes? Why not stay in the race
until the very end? He's an old man, what does he have to lose? Does that
Senate seat mean so much to him?
I'm certain that history will judge Bernie harshly. But in the meantime,
we're all screwed. Our only hope for salvation, they say, is a senile jock
and a cop who loves threatening single moms with jail.
-Yasha Levine