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Don’t Think of It as a Contest Between Biden and Trump
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The Democrats don't work in perfect lockstep; they're a coalition, and as such, you often see pieces of the coalition who disagree with each other.
The Republican party tends to operate as a patronage machine, where they all go along with what the patrons dictate.
Then show me the aspects of the Dems that are anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. Shouldn't be too difficult if you are correct, right?
Examples include Sen. Sanders. It's not hard.
Sanders isn't a Democrat, he's independent.
He was. He changed registration to run for President a few years back, and caucuses with the Democrats.
Ah.
Well, I guess explains why he's been pretty much useless since then.
His power has been limited because people who fully share his views are a minority of the Senate and of the Democratic Party primary voters. You want something like what he wants? Then you need to organize to elect people who are willing to do it.
Examples include the guy that democrats fought hard to make sure he wouldn't win the primaries, twice. Note that he polled better against trump than clinton did, so we could've avoided all this trump trash from the beginning, but the democrats didn't actually care about that, they just wanted to keep their status quo power structure going.
As Democrats are so happy to point out whenever anyone says the party screwed him over in the primaries, Sanders is not a Democrat.
If it's not hard, why have you failed?
Sanders is not an anti-capitalist nor an anti-imperialist. He's just an old-style "New Deal" liberal who believes that capitalism needs to be "nicer" to the people it crushes underfoot in order to be maintained.
Do you have anything else, perhaps?