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  • A Progressive View of the 2024 Election

    This article is a progressive view of the 2024 election. This is just the way I see it. It’s the result of watching the electoral process very closely since 2015, but I could be wrong on any point. It’s value to me is that it refutes many of the strategic mistakes I see in the political conversation. I think the following factors are important for decision-making in 2024. What do you think?

    • The political establishment is able to stop the progressive agenda in its tracks. Progressives should have learned this in the 2016 election.
    • Donald Trump is part of the establishment. That explains why the Biden Administration has continued many of Trump’s foreign policies. However, President Biden has cooperated with progressives in domestic policy. Biden achieved many important policy changes as a result. We seem to be looking at two different factions within the government.
    • Kamala Harris is a legitimate alternative to Donald Trump. However, Harris supporters of all political persuasions lament that she does not have the particular policies they want her to have. I believe this is evidence of a blindness to the reality that progressives were forced to learn in 2016, and which was repeated in 2020.
    • Biden and Kamala Harris as his VP have taken the progressives seriously. We don’t know if this will continue with a Harris presidency. Nevertheless, anyone who tells you that you have a choice in this particular election is leading you astray.
    • Kamala Harris is a good soldier, or she would not be the Democratic candidate for president. However, she may now have, or she may develop in the course of her presidency, a more nuanced agenda. We won’t know until we elect her.
    • Kamala represents a new generation of leadership. The entire political establishment is past its prime. Republicans admit this fact. The Democratic establishment still thinks it dodged a bullet in defeating Bernie Sanders.
    • The Green Party in the United States acts as an electoral pied piper for progressives. So does Donald Trump. Trump plays the part of the dancing fascist, partly as a way to distract the electorate.
    • It is well-known that Donald Trump has had ties with the Mob. This brings up some interesting questions. Mafias need states to make money. They earn money by providing services for these states. One of these services is helping certain candidates win elections. Therefore, it is very interesting that Trump is proposing to dismantle the US government bureaucracy. Trump’s Mob ties suggest the US ‘state’ is not going away. Apparently, Trump is serving its most extreme faction.
    • This extreme faction had no plan until the progressives developed their agenda in 2015. That’s how the right operates. Conservatives don’t propose new ideas. They only react to progressive proposals.
    • Trump is both a fraud and a real threat. He is an actor in someone else’s play. That has always been his role in the US government.
    • Mara-a-Lago has flood insurance through the federal government’s National Flood Insurance Program. Trump once took a $17 million insurance payment for damage that no one remembers happening.
    • Trump put on quite an act when he teased us with the release of the JFK assassination files. Trump probably knows exactly who killed JFK and he doesn’t need the files to give him this information.
    • Donald Trump had a meeting with Bill Clinton immediately before he announced his candidacy in 2015. Perhaps the events are not connected. Bill should explain this.
    • Hillary Clinton received a large sum of money in 2016, after she was defeated. The Clintons used it to purchase the estate next to theirs in New York. Their daughter Chelsea and her family have the use of that estate when she visits her parents.
    • I believe the loss of the 2016 election surprised Hillary. It was a crushing blow. Trump was probably surprised as well. He thought he was only there to defeat Sanders. I’ll bet Bill was not surprised.
    • This does not mean that the 2024 election is not meaningful. If we fail to defeat Trump in this election, he will do exactly as he says he is going to do and no one will stop him. Trump will continue to behave as a fascist if he is elected, although he won’t have free rein.

  • Biden Bows Out and Endorses Harris

    I am concerned about the Democrats who seem to be rethinking the President, and maybe even the presidency itself. This has been impossible to ignore after the debate. I didn’t watch the debate–very few people did–but I’ve seen clips of it. What first concerned me was the sudden appearance of naysayers in the Democratic Party, especially Barack Obama. And large number of Democratic pundits have joined the establishment. They act as if it’s a small matter to discard a presidential candidate. Biden was not only the presidential candidate but also the incumbent in office. It all seemed highly undemocratic. My concerns led me to write the previous article to support Biden. Subsequently, I found Biden’s press conference highlighting his strengths very encouraging. The next day the headlines were screaming Biden bows out and endorses Harris.

    Surely the pundits remember that Obama single-handedly made sure Biden would be the Democratic nominee in 2020? This strange about-face has made me suspicious about the debate itself. And it turns out that Hillary advised Biden to focus on his accomplishments rather than addressing Trump’s lies in the debate.

    Biden’s Endorsement of Harris Was the Right Move

    Given this imperfect situation, Biden’s endorsement of Harris was the right move. It’s the one logical thing that has taken place so far in this drama. However, some in the Democratic establishment would prefer that Kamala Harris not be the nominee. It seems to me that this casts doubt on the stated reasons for wanting Biden to drop out. If some in the Party want to replace Harris as well, they may have had other motives for turning against Biden.

    If the Democrats’ motive is fear of a Trump administration, they should have thought of that decades ago. But failing that, they should have thought of it when they torpedoed Bernie in 2016 and 2020. That said, Biden demonstrated in his press conference of July 11 that he is clearly in control of his performance.

    AOC’s Concerns About the Legal Implications of Replacing Biden

    While thinking about these things, I watched a video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She published this video before Biden’s withdrawal from the race. It reveals that there is actually no mechanism in the Party’s rules for replacing the presidential nominee. In addition, there is a concern that the Republicans will fight any attempt to replace Biden on the ticket. There have been hints that that’s what they intend to do. Ocasio-Cortez’s main fear is that the fight will end up in the Supreme Court, and our next president will be decided by Clarence Thomas.

    Concerning the debate that started this furor, AOC explained that there was no audience present in the room during that debate. President Biden was virtually alone with a very malevolent and aggressive Donald Trump.

    Recap

    To recap, after watching Biden’s press conference I was sure we could all get behind the Biden-Harris ticket. I hadn’t realized until after he dropped out that it was always the Progressives in Congress who supported Biden. I really appreciate that. But now it is shocking how many so-called Democratic and Progressive pundits are whistling down the legal chasm that opened up when Biden dropped out. I just hope they have the sense to support Harris now. She is the Vice-President after all; she should be the nominee, democratically speaking.

    We are witnessing a strange euphoria with no connection to reality. I urge everyone to come to their senses before it’s too late. Otherwise it won’t be the voters who decide the nominee.

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