This is nothing else but Bernie signaling submission to the Democratic Party, which is-and keeps telling him it is-the enemy of everything he claims to stand for. It's telling the party it can betray him in any way and still get his support. A foolish forfeit in advance. If there's anything we learned from Trump in 2016, it's that, in today's U.S. political culture, an "anti-establishment" candidate only benefits from attacking their own party.
The end game of all this is now being prepared by the DNC which is stacking the Rules and Platform Committees for the convention with, as Kevin Gosztola painstakingly lays out in a must-read tweet thread and Grayzone article, "a collection of neoliberal and imperialist hacks," Israeli lobbyists, corporate (including health insurance industry) hacks, and Clintonites, who are "determined to sabotage a Sanders nomination."
As Gosztola points out, this means that even if Bernie wins the nomination he can "still find his agenda thwarted by the standing committees. For example, members of the DNC's Platform Committee beholden to corporate interests could vote against measures including Medicare For All."
Not to mention that the Rules Committee can, you know, change the rules, and, per Brana, "can force it to a second ballot if they want to."
We have to ask: What is Bernie saying or doing about this? What is he doing to support not only himself, but the many thousands of people who are working hard for the "political revolution" he is claiming to lead-supporters who see the Democratic Party right now organizing to deprive Bernie of the nomination and derail anything like that movement from taking hold in the party, whether Bernie is nominated or not? Not him, us, and all that-and "us" want to know. 'Cause if Bernie is doing or saying nothing about this, if he's willing to ignore and accept it without raising hell, then it's fair for "us" to suspect we're seeing a hair of the Democratic sheepdog emerging through the revolutionary lion's mane.
The Ugly
Let's take a cold look at what the possibilities are for the Democratic convention, and what that means for the Democratic Party and Bernie-for both of whom this is a last chance. That look must be based on the understanding that the Democratic Party is an institution dedicated to plutocratic class rule and imperialism, is now the preferred party of the ruling class and the national security apparatus, and will do everything it can to prevent Bernie Sanders from becoming its nominee. The plutocracy and its party do not want Bernie Sanders to be the CEO of American and world capitalism, let alone the Commander-in-Chief of the American empire.
The first possibility is that Sanders will win a majority of pledged delegates in the primaries and capture the nomination on the first ballot. Bravo Bernie! I hope that happens, and will vote to make it possible.
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