Thread by @BenjaminNorton, I'm sorry, but it has to be admitted: This is sad, even [...]

Ben Norton

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I& #39;m sorry, but it has to be admitted: This is sad, even pitiful

Bernie Sanders built up a massive grassroots movement over years to challenge the billionaire oligarchy... but he dropped out not with a bang, but a whimper

He should& #39;ve fought until the end https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/0...

Bernie Sanders Is Dropping Out of 2020 Democratic Race for President

Mr. Sanders, a democratic socialist making his second run for the White House, will withdraw after a series of losses to Joseph R. Biden Jr., who emerges as the presumptive nominee for the general...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html

There was zero legitimacy in the Democratic primary. Zero. The DNC manipulated it at every level, then held "elections" in the middle of a pandemic

Now they& #39;re trying to coronate Biden without an ounce of democratic legitimacy

Bernie just blew up his leverage by dropping out

At the end of the day, Bernie was weak. It& #39;s true everything was rigged against him, from the DNC to the corporate media. But he never defended himself against them

He never attacked the Democratic Party, because he made the decision early on to endorse its candidate—ie, to lose

If Bernie had been serious about winning, he would have had to break with the Democratic Party, attacking the DNC and media

Working-class Americans hate the media and the neoliberal Democratic Party bureaucracy. They deserve nothing but our contempt, not a scintilla of respect

Sure, everything was rigged against Sanders, because the US is not a democracy; it& #39;s a capitalist dictatorship run by billionaires. But Bernie had the people behind him

He had to take that leap of faith. But he refused, giving the Democratic Party legitimacy it does not deserve

There are no significant political differences between Trump and Biden. Joe is a demented, predatorial, right-wing war criminal who has supported every war, the racist war on drugs, mass incarceration, war on immigrants, you name it

Bernie campaigning for him is a huge betrayal

Plus, it& #39;s likely Biden will step down and the DNC will anoint a younger right-wing neoliberal war hawk (maybe Cuomo?) as its presidential candidate (who will probably lose to Trump)

Then the Democratic Party will prove beyond a doubt it& #39;s a mafia with no concern for democracy

Now that Bernie has dropped out, he has no leverage, so there& #39;s no excuse to engage with the Democratic Party. It& #39;s an implacable enemy of workers, an instrument of billionaire capitalists and warmongering imperialists.

We need a new, actual leftist party, for humanity& #39;s sake.

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