2020 Choices

Sometimes I get really tired of seeing through the bullshit. In this case, it's the pretense that there will actually be an honest competition for the Democratic Presidential nomination. The DNC has already made it abundantly clear that they will never allow Tulsi Gabbard or Bernie Sanders to get the nomination - and that every other candidate is in their pocket. That particularly includes Elizabeth Warren, who has received donations from quite a few billionaires and has stated that she WILL accept big business donations in the general election. She also transferred ten million from her Senatorial campaign to her Presidential one. That ten million includes a lot of money from businesses and the rich.

I was listening to some DNC people on NPR tonight, and the plan was so obvious that it was painful: they're going to ram Biden down everyone's throat, with a token minority VP - probably Harris, Buttigieg, or Booker - to give themselves an SJW club to beat down angry progressives. "Unity" will be brayed at progressives day and night. Progressive discussion groups will be subverted, taken over, or shut down. The attempt to guilt progressives and paint them as responsible for Trump will be ceaseless. Obama will be rolled out to support Biden, and we'll get lots of identity politics and egregious virtue-signaling.

Unfortunately Bernie has already made it clear that he'll play ball with the DNC's plans, and will campaign vigorously for whoever the DNC anoints. He'll be a broken man at that point, presumably, but it won't matter. He'll be finished.

None of this takes much imagination. It's exactly what happened in 2016, with different names.

Biden will probably end up losing, and the DNC will blame progressives until human civilization collapses (probably in about thirty years or so).

If for some reason Biden falls through, Warren is clearly the DNC's next choice. After that they have Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, Gillibrand, Klobuchar, and the third tier of corporatist toadies. In any case, the DNC is the best friend that Trump could ever have; they'll gladly hand him the Presidency again as long as they can keep progressives split, confused, and disorganized. Forestalling an anti-capitalist populist movement is the DNC's primary purpose.

Personally, I see the real question as being one of human survival. Our species is in clear medium-term jeopardy; we are within a decade of the point of no return, if we're not already there. Billions are going to die if we don't take radical action, including ending the fossil fuel industry and embarking on an unprecedented remaking of human civilization to allow our species to have a survivable future.

None of the DNC's candidates will tolerate the sort of drastic action necessary for us to avoid extinction. Period. Trump will kill us a bit earlier, but the oligarchs that the DNC serves are implacably opposed to the sort of worldwide movement that is our only option for survival.

The DNC and RNC are working for humanity's extinction, whether or not they admit it to themselves. Supporting human extinction is something that I absolutely refuse to do. I will not be supporting Biden, Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, Gillibrand, or Klobuchar. The only candidates that I would support are Gabbard or Sanders, as those are the only two who offer any hope that my (not yet born) grandchildren will survive.

Otherwise I'm voting Green. The Greens were right all along. They deserve credit for that. I'm quite sure that the votes will be rigged and the Presidential results will be falsified to show virtually no votes for the Greens, but at least I will know that I didn't participate in the genocide of our species.