When You Have Lost Bernie Sanders

Don't make Bernie angry. You won't like it if he gets angry.
When Bernie f%$#ing Sanders is criticizing the Democratic Party for forming a circular firing squad, you know that the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is f%$#ing things up big time:

This weekend, we witnessed a horrifying assassination attempt on the life of former President Trump. There is absolutely no place for political violence in our country, and we must all condemn it at every turn.

I guess that every OP/ED over the next few weeks will lead with this sort of comment on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

It is what it is, I guess.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In the coming weeks, as the nation recovers from this shocking and tragic event, we must not lose sight of the incredibly high stakes of the November election, and the millions of working Americans whose access to affordable health care, decent wages, and a habitable planet is on the line.

I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected. Why? Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Mr. Trump — a demagogue and pathological liar. It’s time to learn a lesson from the progressive and centrist forces in France who, despite profound political differences, came together this week to soundly defeat right-wing extremism.

I strongly disagree with Mr. Biden on the question of U.S. support for Israel’s horrific war against the Palestinian people. The United States should not provide Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government with another nickel as it continues to create one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history.

I strongly disagree with the president’s belief that the Affordable Care Act, as useful as it has been, will ever address America’s health care crisis. Our health care system is broken, dysfunctional and wildly expensive and needs to be replaced with a “Medicare for all” single-payer system. Health care is a human right.

And those are not my only disagreements with Mr. Biden.

But for over two weeks now, the corporate media has obsessively focused on the June presidential debate and the cognitive capabilities of a man who has, perhaps, the most difficult and stressful job in the world. The media has frantically searched for every living human being who no longer supports the president or any neurologist who wants to appear on TV. Unfortunately, too many Democrats have joined that circular firing squad.

He goes on from there to praise Biden's record, specifically things like the "American Rescue Plan",  infrastructure funding, cuts to (some) drug prices, etc.

I'm of a conspiratorial bent myself.  I believe that, in addition to their own general timidity, the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) does not want to see increased enforcement of antitrust laws, price controls on drugs, and more regulation of our increasingly dysfunctional financial system, because that is who they get their campaign donations from.  (Also, where they make money trading on their inside information as members of Congress.)

In either case, Bernie Sanders is right. (Again)