'Toontime: Will History Repeat Itself?

credit:Steve Kelly 
Wackydoodle sez: Repeat after me, O-B-A-M-A, O-B-A-M-A...

Answer: Possibly. Two definitive developments: Elizabeth Warren needs to prove she is a real progressive by endorsing Bernie Sanders.  She came third in her own state. Bloomberg failed to buy the nomination; but he impressed American Samoans.  Michigan will be the litmus test for the two remaining male septuagenarians.

The Democratic Party establishment coalesced quickly this week to endorse its candidate for the nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden. Both establishment alternatives, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttegieg, conveniently withdrew from the presidential race just before South Carolina voted; the effect was predictable. They were reluctant to endorse Biden until Bernie Sanders won three straight primaries. Biden finally broke through in the South Carolina contest with older black voters, who fondly recall his support for the nation's first black president. Propping up Joe 'Gramps' was the party's play call, and it worked

Sanders is taking on the plutocracy full bore at this point.  His call for radical change is resonating with the 99%; the need for more social equity has never been more apparent since the days of the Gilded Age.  Contrary to what Biden claims, Senator Sanders has put forward a plan--a modern Omaha Platform--paying for his ambitious social agenda including Medicare for All: a combination of increased taxes on the ultra-wealthy, Wall Street speculation, and spending cuts for a bloated military-industrial complex that is the largest in the world.

This social revolution can only work if masses of people support the candidate that has been promoting the same policies for most of his adult political life, not just a campaign meme written by a campaign aide.  A democratic mass movement has happened before in the history of this nation in the form of the Populist Movement, which appeared in the last quarter of 19th century.  By the end of the Democratic convention in 1896 the agrarian revolt represented by the Peoples' Party expired in the arms of the Democratic Party led by "free silver" advocate William Jennings Bryant, who was funded by western state silver magnates in favor of bimetallic currency.  The Peoples' Party was ultimately not successful in resting control from the plutocracy, but was co-opted by it. Only you can prevent history from repeating itself.

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