Last night, I listened for quite some time, to the coverage of election
issues and results on the Democracy Now website. It was a joint venture of
Democracy Now and The Intercept, and there were a lot of good people on
there. But I can see where we're going. At least I think I can, and
listening to the Intercepted and Democracy Now podcasts this morning, sort
of solidifies my view. I need to keep reminding myself that I must keep some
emotional distance between myself and what is happening, and that I have no
control over anything. But clearly, the Democratic Party is using all kinds
of dirty tricks to ensure that Bernie Sanders doesn't win the nomination.
The leadership would truly prefer another four years of Donald Trump than to
risk the possibility that some of FDR's New Deal legislation, or some
legislation approximating it, might be enacted. The Intercepted Podcast
reminded me this morning, that in 1968, Eugene McArthy, the anti war
candidate, came to the Democrdatic Convention in Chicago with a plurality of
votes, and the party did not allow him to get the nomination. Hubert
Humphrey got the nomination through a brokered convention. And remember what
followed? Nixon won the election in a landslide. So the party leadership in
2020, would rather keep their personal influence and incomes and promote a
candidate who is , aside from his terrible record, suffering from some kind
of age related brain damage, than to allow a people's candidate to confront
Donald Trump in the presidential election. We've watched a show for a year
and a half, a pretense in which people have appeared to compete for the
Democratic party's presidential nomination. I listened to very intelligent,
well meaning people, attempt to explain why Joe Biden got a majority of the
black vote in all those southern states. But all their reasons made less
sense than what I've heard Glenn Ford of the Black Agenda Report say over
and over again about, what he calls, "the black misleadership class". Those
people listened to their ministers and their politicians, all of whom have
been bribed, in one way or another, by the Democratic Party. The people are
vulnerable and they turn to people whom they've ben taught to trust, to help
them survive in a racist world. If you know anything about the
Congressional Black Caucus, you know that it does not function in the
interest of black voters. It's all machine politics. In the same way that so
many white working people voted against their own interests when they voted
for Trump, black working people can also be manipulated to vote against
their interests.
Miriam
