Re: POTUS 45.59: It Was a Great Phone Call
Umm...
Putting Biden aside for a minute, on what planet does Bernie Sanders win by a larger margin than Elizabeth Warren? She's a superior candidate in every way plus she's 8 years younger and doesn't have heart issues or the baggage that Sanders has?
More radical is better in the current environment. The more a break from the past of Democrats beholden to corporate interests the more that breaks open a new electorate of people who are sick of the bipartisan destruction of the middle class by the Plutes and their well-paid off enablers in government, business, and media.
The particular strength of the candidate
as such no longer matters. Dump's election proved that -- nobody on the planet was more unelectable than Dump. But Dump was also the most extreme possible Republican nominee in jamming their narrative down everybody's throats. He's the Fan Service President. He won
because of his Dumpiness, not despite it.
This change has happened for a few reasons:
1. Neither party represents the majority population of the country anymore. Both are predators -- the establishment Dems through corruption and the GOP through overt and formally declared mission.
2. Republican voters no longer have access to reality. They have a support structure which assures them their prejudices and delusions are correct and reality is fake. Once you achieve that you can take your prisoners literally anywhere.
3. It may not really be a change. Both of the above, though not at this extreme, have been true now since at least 1994. It's entirely possible the Dems have merely held themselves back from sweeping reform because of cowardice, not because of conditions on the ground. If I was a Plute trying to protect my privileges against democratic reform, I would fund an openly pro-Pute reactionary party using natavists and racist rhetoric while also scaring the liberal party into doubting itself and worrying about going too far.
