If New York succeeds in canceling the presidential primary, the hundreds of passionate, committed volunteers who worked with Simran and Kathryn to get Bernie Sanders on the New York ballot will likely feel that all their efforts were for nothing; they could not only become demoralized, but stop being involved in political activism.
Will the self-serving, socially destructive proclivities of those whose only purpose in life is to usurp all the wealth that can be usurped be allowed to continue doing so in perpetuity?
It’s time to acknowledge that Joe Biden is the Democratic Party’s candidate for president. Now we must decide what to do in November. Replacing him at the convention is not on the table, and wasting time with anti-democratic fantasies won’t help our movement at all.
There were disturbing developments during the March 10th Michigan primaries. How did Bernie Sanders lose nearly 300,000 votes over the course of two minutes? A local volunteer tells the story. We’re not accusing anyone of fraud, but if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck…
The media should question these cheap shots against us and stop reinforcing the negative, divisive, and false messaging about the Sanders campaign and our movement. It is harmful to democracy.
Until the election of 1852, everybody understood that only a Whig or a Democrat could be elected. The Whigs, however, were unable to find consensus on the issue of slavery; and their house, divided against itself, could not stand. A similar thing is happening now with the Democrats around the issue of oligarchy – and it might spell the end of the party.
Bloomberg’s supporters are offended by the idea that their candidate is buying the election, but progressives’ concerns are founded not only on his behavior during this campaign season but on his track record of using money to gain power for himself.
We need much more than having political figures fighting for us. We need a general strike.