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The popularity of Sanders created great opportunities for the Left in the U.S., which it flubbed up and still flubs up. The chance that the Democrats would permit him (or likely Warren) to get the nomination is less than the prospect of Yellowstone erupting. Should he (or any "progressive") get the nomination, we have absolutely no reason to imagine that the Democratic hierarchy will do anything other than McGovern them . . . that is, it would extend no more than the most minimal support, and then use the defeat as an excuse for moving ever more Biden-ward next time. And if, by some stretch of the imagination, we were to find ourselves with a President Sanders in 2021, he will face a Congress divided between a Trumpified GOP and an essentially Nixonized-Reaganized Democratic caucus. And we have no reason to think that Sanders would embrace a strategy of mass mobilizations. Electoral politics will open only after we get and sustain those mass mobilizations. I'm hopeful, because there's plenty of sentiment for radical change. However, there's no strategic understanding of independent movements and virtually zero understanding of how to go about the work of building them. Cheers, Mark L. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
