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The Democratic outcome is clear after last night. The DNC won't have to pull much sleight-of-hand with superdelegates, etc. The media beat the drum constantly for Biden after Sanders won Nevada. With Bloomberg as a backstop, they threw everything into stopping Sanders by reviving a viable Biden campaign. Last night, Biden was reechoing the promises of Sanders and Warren, despite the record of the Obama-Biden administration on health care--and the free community college talk. Using older Southern black voters as a cudgel, they remade Biden's record advocating mass incarceration, etc. into that of an old civil rights advocate. Enough of the electorate fell for it--or figured that most of their peers would go for it anyway and that it was time to unite the party base . . . Or the effort successfully demoralized enough of the voters to whom the Sanders campaign appealed--the young and those who had topped voting or never voted because of a very realistic skepticism of the corporate shell game. (Yes, in the end, disenfranchisement has always been a bipartisan strategy, differing only in terms of who they sought to disenfranchise.) The outcome can be no great surprise, given the nature of the two-party system. The way it functions predisposes the outside party not to oppose the party with power so much as to try to mirror what it thinks made that party successful. So you get months of worthless self-congratulatory kabuki about diversity to produce an old white salesman who'll be near 90 if he gets two terms in the White House. Biden was and is the closest the Democratic party could come to mirroring Trump. He's even got the same predisposition to making strange public gaffes that followers actually embrace as a kind of endearing grandfatherly confusion, (a trait that is all the more entertaining of those followers because it maddens those who are not his followers). Too, as with Trump, the great groundswell is a media creation. The issue is no longer what the Sanders campaign might do, could do, would have done, hoped to do, etc. All that's very abstract right now, because the relations of power are such at this point that he will not be overtake the orchestrated Biden momentum. The question is actually not whether we should vote for Sanders but for Biden.. Solidarity, 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
