When Austerity’s Chickens Came Home to Roost in the U.S., Bernie and “the Squad” were Unprepared

“Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the rest of the squad diverted their youthful and increasingly socialist base to the corporate jaws of the Democratic Party.”

[blackagendareport.com]

{Majorities of people of all political persuasions are hungry for Medicare for All and any kind of relief from the precarity of neoliberal capitalism. Young Democrats displaced from the American Dream hoped that the rise of Bernie Sanders and “the Squad” represented the first signs of life for the resurgence of class struggle politics in the United States. A major problem with this formulation rested in the fact that Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the rest of the squad diverted their youthful and increasingly socialist base to the corporate jaws of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is where movements go to die and where austerity is given a friendly, more diverse face from which to shatter the dreams and lives of the working class.}

Danny Haiphong leaves out one large factor in this. The collaboration of the DSA {democratic socialist or America} and the Jacobin Magazine.

{In recent weeks, AOC and Sanders have blamed Republicans for the latest stimulus package which is half of what was formulated by Donald Trump before Biden became president-elect and excludes the singular $1200 payment to every American.}

{Sanders’ willingness to reduce his demand for a $2000 universal basic income to a $1200 one-time payment after nine months of economic crisis follows the logic of austerity to a T.}

We have 4 trillion for the corporate elite to greatly expand each of their wealth, but you're not worth a meager 1200.

{Bernie Sanders and “the Squad” have always been unprepared to challenge austerity because their struggle does not fundamentally confront the character of the U.S. state. The U.S. state is the enforcement mechanism of capitalism.}

It was a hard pill for me to swallow this in regards to Sanders, but I got it down. And I seen it coming with AOC with some research. And right out of the gate of the next morning after winning her seat she loudly proclaimed support for the status quo. Clinton particularly. Then Pelosi later. Nothing more here to learn now. Hot air lip service facades meant to keep their supporters trapped in the democratic party.