Re: The Democratic Party, 2019
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:46 am
It should not be forgotten that the only reason universal healthcare is a front and center issue—and that Amercians are even vaguely aware that it's possible—is: Bernie Sanders.
That $600 a week unemployment bonus that Americans needed and depended upon was included in the bill only because Bernie Sanders shamed them into it. It could not have happened if Sanders had set himself in opposition to the DNC and Democratic caucus.
The only meaningful healthcare language in both the Covid-19 'task force' and the DNC platform was included only because Sanders fought them for it. Could not have happened if Sanders had alienated himself from the DNC.
Sanders remaining and working within the Democratic sphere is a tactical decision with the only aim of better net outcomes for people. How many families did not get evicted because they received that $600 a week?
That bottom line of human suffering is how Sanders' tactics should be judged. Winning a virtuous point of contention on Russiagate doesn't feed & house the unemployed.
Sanders is the only asshole in Washington making any real positive difference—in an environment where doing that is nearly impossible. He's doing the fucking impossible. And anyone to the left of Joe Biden should be praising and thanking Sanders for laying the tiny patch of progressive ground they have to stand on.
The perfectionists are calling out The Wrong Man.
That $600 a week unemployment bonus that Americans needed and depended upon was included in the bill only because Bernie Sanders shamed them into it. It could not have happened if Sanders had set himself in opposition to the DNC and Democratic caucus.
The only meaningful healthcare language in both the Covid-19 'task force' and the DNC platform was included only because Sanders fought them for it. Could not have happened if Sanders had alienated himself from the DNC.
Sanders remaining and working within the Democratic sphere is a tactical decision with the only aim of better net outcomes for people. How many families did not get evicted because they received that $600 a week?
That bottom line of human suffering is how Sanders' tactics should be judged. Winning a virtuous point of contention on Russiagate doesn't feed & house the unemployed.
Sanders is the only asshole in Washington making any real positive difference—in an environment where doing that is nearly impossible. He's doing the fucking impossible. And anyone to the left of Joe Biden should be praising and thanking Sanders for laying the tiny patch of progressive ground they have to stand on.
The perfectionists are calling out The Wrong Man.