Hateful, divisive rhetoric worthy of Russian propaganda. The compulsion to apply ever more stringent purity tests evokes the same revulsion as when it comes from Trump. Both extremes are unworthy of power. That's a big and good reason not to vote for Sanders. But losing Congress is the best reason. Try getting your revolution past Moscow Mitch...

So what's the solution? A vote for an old, extreme left leaning candidate who will have a large portion of the country against him? I think the model of putting Biden on equal footing as tRump is way over the top. Relationships including politics are always about compromise. Traditionally, the country has supported central figures not extremists. At this point in time it is about the global social and environmental situation. Simply, toooo many humans seeking the limited resource base of the planet. The tRumps of the world are increasing and it is more than simple politics. Humans do not control the world, nature does and we are her servants/slaves.

Still angry about the way Americans vote?

Well said.

And let's not forget why Biden was shamed into dropping out in 88. Plagiarism and telling ridiculous lies. He hasn't changed much.

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Wow. A powerful, beautiful reminder that 10’s of millions of us are living on the edge, homeless, suffering the stress of living paycheck to paycheck, losing our loved ones to any one of a thousand diseases or state-sanctioned punishments. Well, I can’t say it any better than you already have. Thank you

Well said. It echoes what Chris Hedges has been saying for years, that the liberals in the Dem party who really only care about abortion and identity politics, not at all about economic equality, the class war, endless wars, climate change, or the lives of the poor and working class, are a group that stands for nothing because they are not willing to fight for any of those things in my long list above. They are useless, phony hypocrites in my book and I wish we had a viable political party that did not include them, while letting them keep their useless Dem party. You also forgot to add that Biden clearly appears to have mild or early dementia, another reason that Trump will rip him to pieces in a debate. I hope Bernie is practical enough to take the gloves off and do it himself in the next debates so we are not stuck with Biden as a nominee, but I doubt it's in his nature and it may be too late anyway to change the minds of Biden's supporters.

The Dem voters that you and I are bashing are mostly all in the top 10% of income and wealth, so they are voting their economic interests while pretending to care about the lower classes and maintaining their privilege while keeping the Dem party to the right and focused only on identity politics rather than major change. They are fooling no one like you or me...

I also like the lines in your post about the whole practice of "negotiating with yourself", better known to me as the classic Obama "pre-emptive cave" that he would constantly do in the phony practice of pretending to seek bipartisanship with the Repubs that both he and we knew never existed in the first place. All a bunch of neoliberal kubuki theater for the rubes who vote and buy it anyway....

This two-party mentality breeds more narrow mindedness. The deep corruption of the US neo-liberal, status quo is as deadly to true democracy as the great intellectuals of yesteryear predicted it would be. It has happened before, but on smaller scales. Now the power is rampantly deadly.

Why oh why do people keep mistaking the dems for liberals?