Things have never looked worse for the Democratic Party, which just lost the last semblance of mental competence as Bernie Sanders drops out of the race. With Joe Biden withering by the day, will Andrew Cuomo get the call?
It’s safe to say that if a Socialist candidate cannot win at the ballot box when a pandemic is tearing through the global economy, leaving millions of Americans terrified and vulnerable, then there never will be a Socialist president in the United States. At least not in the year 2021, that much is certain.
Some will blame Sanders’ defeat on America’s blind devotion to capitalism on steroids. Indeed, in no other place does the word ‘socialism’ provoke more emotion than in the US, due most likely to its decades-long struggle against the Soviet Union. Others will say Sanders was cheated out of victory once again, betrayed by members of his own camp, whose desire for a socialist government ranks even worse than having Trump as president for another four years.
Whatever the case may be, for many young and progressive Americans Bernie Sanders was the perfect remedy to the worst disease now ravaging America. No, we’re not talking about coronavirus, but Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), known for turning otherwise normal people into screaming, ranting madcaps at just the mention of the 45th President of the United States.
In fact, much of the momentum behind Sander’s now vanquished Socialist revolution came about thanks to the arrival of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the first female members of the Democratic Socialists of America to serve in the US Congress. With the left seething with revenge to retaliate against the Republicans, Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives were able to impose radical ideas that were even over-the-top to many in the Democratic Party. Sanders eventually aligned himself with this group and the so-called Green New Deal, a program that advanced controversial ways of fighting climate change as well as inequality.
Although Sanders succeeded in touching a nerve with a broad swath of the American constituency, somehow, even in America’s darkest hour in many years, his pledge to provide Medicaid for all, education for all, while opening up the US border to immigrants, could not seal the deal.
Now, the Democrats are faced with a truly grim proposition. The last Democratic candidate standing, Joe Biden, 77, is beginning to show all of the trademark signs of not being altogether there; some have gone so far as to call it senility. His lockdown videos, meant to instill some sense of confidence as the country confronts coronavirus, have become more like substitutes for late night comedy entertainment.
So untenable is the Democratic position with Sanders out and Biden still in that Donald Trump felt confident enough to invite members of Sanders’ dejected followers over to his camp. Of course, while most Bernie supporters would sooner risk jumping into a sea of sharks with Sanders than join Trump, some may actually ponder the idea given the betrayals they have endured ever since 2016 when it became known that the Democrats were actively working against the democratic socialist.
What can we expect the Democrats to do now? Surely they must understand that Joe Biden doesn’t stand a chance against a ferocious no-holds-barred debater like Donald Trump. One obvious choice at this point would beNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who, despite exuding all the likability of a three-day-old codfish, does have a decent grasp on a place called reality and could be expected to hold his ground solidly against Trump in a debate.
With the brains among the Democratic nominees, Bernie Sanders, now out of the picture, and Joe Biden struggling to hold up the body end, expect to see more enthusiasm for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the coming days. The Sanders’ Socialist joyride through the American Heartland is officially over.
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