To give him the benefit of the doubt he maybe decided not to publicly criticize them to "beat trump" dumb but not as blatantly corrupt as him saying this opportunistically. Not sure if we should give him that benefit though? I learn probably not.
Did Bernie fall out a window, hit his head and now thinks it's 2016 like what happened to Frank in that It's Always Sunny Episode? You don't get to talk like that anymore, bud. The jig is up and have been for the last 4 years. To quote someone closer politically to Bernie than Bernie is to me at this point "Fool me once, shame on you...fool me...you can't get fooled again."
Bernie, just retire. I wanna keep myself from wishing you dead
A day late
A buck short
I’m writing
The report
On losing
And failing
When I move
I’m flailing now
And it’ll happen once again
You’ll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody’s gone
And I’ve been here for too long
Maybe he's just venting. He tried to be pragmatic AGAIN, stumping for dems to prevent Trump getting back in office, and it backfired spectacularly. It's his final "fuck you, told you so".
I'm still in line to vote for him in the 2020 South Carolina primary! They can't turn me away because I got here before the polls closed, I suggest everyone else still in line to do the same. Once all the votes are in Bernie will hopefully have the statewide delegate lead, and that will put a huge dent into Biden's Super Tuesday winnings, we may be able to redo the convention.
In the letter he attached, he concluded with something vague that I think could be hinting at announcing a new third party or him moving to an existing third party. I like that Jason Hickel and Shaun have pointed out this could be the moment to start the difficult fight of replacing dems with a different party, and tbh demsocs might be the ones to do it. I'm obviously not a fan of over , but if the party is (more) resilient to capitalist interests (and the FBI doesn't stop him) then it could lead to meaningful socialist policy changes.
I'm just coming off the wells stalin interview so this is fresh in mind-- we can't delude ourselves into thinking succdem shit is going to lead to meaningful lasting changes-- but having said that the us is nowhere near to accepting anything like a communist party on a wide scale, and even tepid new deal reforms are improvements far beyond anything the democratic party has to offer. This could actually work and get traction, and it would absolutely end the democratic party, who no longer has a constituency