There are some other things transpiring in American politics right now. But we must note that Democratic leaders are now unabashedly stating what Bernie Sanders supporters said over and over in 2020: the party pushed Joe Biden primarily to stop Bernie.
Bernie would’ve caused so much positive disruption that they wouldn’t be prepared for. AOC could probably get behind whatever Bernie was selling; the rest of the Democrats, I’m not so sure.
Both parties are different sides of the same coin. They just have different ways of accomplishing their end goals. Bernie posed a huge threat to corporate interests and the wealthy. They knew that. They also knew that a vast, VAST number of Americans supported Bernie, even across the political divide. Why do you think Democrats did very little recently when a surge of unionization happened? They’re basically insider traders with a day job ignoring the needs of the people who had no other political choice.
The next two possible candidates in the 2020 election were that Klob… umm the lady with a name that doesn’t want to be spell checked and what’s his face, the current Secretary of Transportation. We all know, now, what they were offered to drop out of that race as they took up their cushy administrative jobs. Both of them represented monied interests and were splitting the ticket three ways for the true democratic nominee between them and Biden. All while the American middle and lower classes were turning out in droves for Bernie.
I won’t say that both groups are equal threats, but I’ll never forget not forgive what the DNC did. I vote for them because I value more than myself and know the existential threat that Republicans have shown themselves to be. Fuck the DNC, but also I’ll be voting for Biden the same way I did in 2020, and before with Hillary in 2016, holding my fucking nose.