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They know it has no chance to pass. It's with straight up boot licking, or they think they have a plan to bypass the amendment process.

That's what the Trump regime wants us to think.

Once again, with Republicans, every accusation is a confession. But yeah, Clinton was shit enough to make it easy for them.

He got out in front of his PR operation on that one, but a lot of leftists had him pegged long before that incident. It was obvious that he was funding an astroturf campaign to deify himself, and he has always been rabidly aggressive to worker's rights.

He pretty much did. Corporate media did him dirty, but revolutions have to assume that will be the case. I don't give establishment Democrats any slack when they whine about media coverage or voter apathy, so I don't give progressives any either. We gotta win a game that we know is to some extent rigged.

There is no savior coming. That's what grass roots movements are for. It's gotta be the people.

It will be a body of oil soon enough. Then the world will probably get on board with the new name.

Nobody is confused about the fact that Netanyahu is giving the orders, but Biden kept sending cash and weapons (in violation of US law), kept participating in the coverup, and joined the chorus trying to frame anti-genocide protesters as antisemitic. I'm sure he has some stern words for Netanyahu, but that's not pressure. Biden ought to be in prison. He's lucky to just have a nickname.

In 2016 Bernie we was running as an issue candidate. Nobody, including Bernie expected him to become a serious contender against the anointed one. He came far closer than expected, close enough for Hillary to never quit whining about it. There is also no such thing as "close" in a primary because once the media declared a winner, the remaining states all avalanche to the expected nominee.

It's hilarious that you think Carter and Bernie are all that similar. Carter was the first of the neoliberal Democrats. He had integrity, unlike the Democrats to follow, and he was solidly non-interventionist, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. Carter never had the popularity that Bernie has maintained for over a decade. No Democrat since FDR can match that.

With many thousands of state and local elections across the country, I do agree that there have to be niche circumstances where a third party strategy works, or might even be best. Even so, I just don't see that as something that can be built on to ever start winning at a national level.

Even in the case of Bernie, he runs on an "independent" brand, but it's understood that he is a Democrat.

There is no doing it the hard way. That's an adolescent fantasy. The wealthy will just coop any such movement to gain even more control.

Winning has to start with massive reform of American culture, and the wealthy have just consolidated control over social media, making it even harder to reach people. The one thing we have going for us is that the US seems to finally understand that the system is broken.