There are some other things transpiring in American politics right now. But we must note that Democratic leaders are now unabashedly stating what Bernie Sanders supporters said over and over in 2020: the party pushed Joe Biden primarily to stop Bernie.
I’ll tell you. It starts with throwing money at ±14 other candidates nobody has ever heard of but whose policy platforms spans the spectrum between the most conservative two candidates and the most progressive. Then the party collectively staggers the primary elections to the point where the progressive candidate can lead and win most of the initial states, but when the party finally comes around to the first state of a moderate size and one of the otherwise less popular conservative candidate suddenly inches ahead, the remaining no-name candidates suddenly drop out, throw their support (and delegates) behind him in a less-than-legal exchange for cabinet positions, so before a large portion of the country even gets a chance to vote, the progressive candidate is told to pull out because there is no possible way he can win enough delegates for the nomination.
When the Democrats say ‘don’t vote 3rd party because it will split the vote’ -that’s because they’re projecting and it’s exactly what they do to ensure a more conservative candidate wins the primary.
Remembering the media hysteria after Bernie won Nevada’s caucus followed by the relentless promotion and support given to Biden after he won SC with Clyburn’s help. You could feel their collective sense of relief from cable tv heads that their taxes weren’t going to go up transmit from the tv into your soul. They were laughing at us.
Wasn’t just Clyburn. Obama organized for all the candidates besides Biden and Warren to drop out ahead of SC. This was to ensure that the centerists didn’t siphon votes from Biden but Warren did siphon votes from Bernie.
Also Biden didn’t have the organization to do well on super tuesday because the establishment didn’t like him until they decided he was their only choice for stopping Bernie, so his campaign was anemic and underfunded. They solved this by having the democratic committeemen step in as an impromptu campaign organization where Biden didn’t otherwise have get out the vote operations. So they had the democratic party whipping up votes for a particular candidate in their own primary election.