He compared Bernie to whichever general (he forgot who) decided to drop the atom bomb... because the Germans had almost finished theirs. And that he was glad they dropped it because it was necessary to save lives.
And he lost his train of thought for like 20 seconds unable to recall what's happening. His wife had to get him off the stage.
Yikes. Hope nobody tells him Germany had surrendered before we dropped the atomic bombs on Japan.
Though to be honest, to me the dropping of the atomic bombs is a neutral issue, I feel no strong way in either direction because all of the scenarios were shit. Sitting back and continuing to wipe out towns and villages with conventional bombs would have killed just as many, actually trying to start a land invasion and take Japan before the USSR arrived on the scene would have likely killed even more people, risking the Soviet Union taking Japan would have also been horrific, dropping the two atomic bombs was clearly horrible, there was a best path forward in hindsight as the Emperor did want to surrender just had to deal with coups and shit, I'm just glad I didn't have to make any of those decisions.
if biden wins progressives in congress will be treated as traitors for the jump
the window is only open once
I feel Progressives played this all wrong. Honestly speaking they are traitors to a degree, they're out primarying safe seats and using that to claim they can win nationally instead of going out there and unseating Republicans and coming back to the Moderates with scalps. Granted, I don't begrudge any of them for doing what they did, AOC lives where she lives and it's perfectly fine for her to feel Crowley didn't represent her District well, that's democracy. I can't expect every charismatic Democratic Socialist to have the funds to run a carpetbagger campaign like Cenk's doing, so, the people we have are who we have and we have to play that hand. But as Progressives we're basically mansplaining to the party what can win the entire country without having shown it in recent history where at least the Moderates, while they do have some national defeats they also do have some national victories under their belts as well, in every current voters' lifetime too.
Unfortunately, this election's not going to be a good test regarding whether Progressivism is viable in this country or not, unseating an incumbent is HARD, it's possible none of our candidates can win, but that sure as hell is not going to stop Moderates from blaming Progressives if Sanders loses to Trump or Progressives blaming Moderates if Biden loses to Trump. And while I can't hate someone who thinks Sanders can't win, not out of a dislike of his policies but just electorally and understand why some in the Democratic Party may feel robbing him in the convention is the best thing for the country, I don't know what internal polling and shit they have, they do have to understand I have absolutely no way of separating who's doing it purely for electoral reasons versus who'd be doing it for purely ideological or cronyist reasons. If they go that route it will be a shit show.
In my perfect scenario my preferred way to play it would have been to run a Progressive against a non-incumbent without any incumbent advantage, but after 2016 that left Bernie off the table and I don't know who the hell could fill his shoes by 2024. I'd have preferred to have seen more money spent primarying Republican seats than Democratic seats but then the squad likely wouldn't be here either and for the most part they're also a good example. But, current hand being what it is this is likely the best time to go for it despite the long odds.
Politics fucking sucks.
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