Gee, another “illuminating moment”

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/build-back-better-corporate-democrats-biden

. . . an illuminating moment: it reveals the outer limits of possibility for corporate politics, and the human costs of those politics. Ultimately, Democrats’ reconciliation bill was stripped of most provisions to alter the structure of the economy to try to make it more fair and less ecocidal. But your ire shouldn’t only be aimed at this one particular bill. It should be aimed at the system that guts or outright kills these kinds of bills on a regular basis. It is a system that doesn’t block all positive reforms — it just makes sure most reforms never alter the economy’s overall structure, even when society is facing existential emergencies.

. . . much in keeping with my idea that we just won’t be taking more than two steps at a time on our thousand-step journey toward social and ecological sanity.

Sorry.

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The left-of-Dem left is going crazy today about it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jimmy Dore as frustrated and angry.

As for Bernie (losing again) . . .

Bernie got too drawn in.

Bernie lucked out in 2016: It was thought Hillary Clinton was such a shoe-in that no one wanted to challenge her in the primary. Obscure Bernie Sanders did. As the Only Alternative he got some votes. And more name-recognition than he probably ever thought he would. A younger and more audacious Bernie would have taken that and started a third party. You can see a dozen Bernie clips on Youtube saying we need more parties, have no faith in the duopolistic establishment parties. Then he got too drawn in to the system.