Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
04.06.2019
Run on Your Strength
Not
by Undermining Your Opponent
The
primary season is just getting and the field is not yet set.
Democratic
Party politics is much different now than it was four years ago, the race t be
the party’s nominee for president in 2020 is wide open. There are more than a
dozen candidates that have jumped in, and a few more who are expected to announce
soon.
In
the last cycle HRC had all of the structural support locked up, and though BS
ran a campaign that made her have to work, her victory was never in doubt, not
to me at least, not to most observers, though it was to some self-deluded folks
and even though there numbers might be in the tens of thousands they are still
just a tiny minority of the voters who participated in the caucuses and
primaries.
It
seems however, that there bitterness at having lost has not gone away. The BS campaign
fizzled out. And the principle eventually endorsed his opponent, though many of
his followers opted to resist until the very end, they eagerly pushed all the
rightwing and Russian propaganda that was trolling HRC, they refused to support
her or even vote for her many even went over to cast ballots for Jill Stein, a
Russian stooge, a useful idiot of Vladimir Putin’s.
BS
is running again. He never released his taxes, he promised he would but he
still hasn’t. He has broken other promises as well. In the last election cycle
he gave up his status as an Independent when he sought the nomination of the
Democratic Party, he said he would remain with the party but then, in 2018 he
ran for his Senate seat in Vermont as an Independent again.
Now
he is singing the same old song.
The
BS team is different this time, it is as if they were still riding high on
their “almost-won” campaign from 2016. They are acting much like HRC did, BS
and his campaign staff, his surrogates and supporters, they are acting as if BS
should be anointed and they are running down candidates who they feel might be
a threat to them; Beto O’Rourke, the latest with Joe Biden, they are poisoning
the well.
I
say let things shake out with positive campaigning and no dirty tricks; the
dirty tricks are disqualifying. The Democratic Party needs unity. We need to
win the house, we need to win the Senate, we need to expand our hold on
congress, and in state houses across the nation.
We
need to win if we hope to get the plethora of Constitutional amendments that
candidates are proposing passed, but more importantly, we need to win if want
to control redistricting, and the upcoming apportionment of congressional
districts.
There
cannot be any Green new deal litmus tests, nothing of the sort, democrats need
to support democrats in districts where they can win, there cannot be any ugly
and divisive purity tests, and primary challenges, anyone who thinks that is a
good idea needs to sit down.
I’m
not of BS, I think he is a ridiculous candidate with a vision for America, that
would be good if it could obtain, but for which there is not a broad enough
constituency to pass. He is enamored with his good ideas, and that makes him a
dangerous man.
I
don’t want Joe Biden in the race either, Or Elizabeth Warren, let the old guard
stand down, but if the win the hearts and minds of the voters then they have my
vote and that is that, I’ll even vote for BS.
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