[Peace-discuss] Proving Bruce Dixon right, years after he wrote that Sen. Sanders was a "sheepdog" for the Democratic Party

[J.B. Nicholson]

The late Bruce Dixon in 
https://www.blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-hillary was correct. 
Change a few of the names in that essay and you've got a better explanation (offered 
well before Sanders supported Clinton's 2016 candidacy) than anything Jimmy Dore & 
co. offer in either of the following videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0swg5PD0tvw -- Jimmy Dore & co. on a recording of 
Sen. Sanders being asked about the nonsensical things Sen. Joe Biden says during his 
run for POTUS (or Senator, according to an appearance Biden made).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVaNY4THm90 -- Jimmy Dore & co. on a Sanders 
interview with CNN's Jake Tapper where Sanders says "Biden can beat Trump" and that 
if Biden is the nominee Sanders will help Biden do that.

Jimmy Dore & co. barely get into explaining what's really going on. They talk about 
Sanders' campaign choices as if they think that Sanders ran to win. I disagree. That 
party continues to be part of the problem and there's virtually no point to 
distinguishing it from the other major corporate party because the Democrats & 
Republicans work together to continue a neoliberal and neoconservative agenda 
(pushing for permanent government ends).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BVDZELQ370 -- Lee Camp interviewing Chris Hedges on 
the elections & the economy.

Sanders' campaign exists to draw people into the Democratic Party (hence 'sheepdog'). 
The Democrats would rather lose to Trump than win with Sanders (as Hedges rightly 
says in the aforementioned interview, the 1% might prefer Biden but they can live 
with Trump).

I'm convinced that even if Sanders somehow won he'd face the same problems as Trump 
and be useless to the public overall, never accomplishing the relatively mild set of 
agenda items with which he associates himself (Medicare for All, for instance). I 
don't see that the public (which likes him, would vote him into office, and likes 
Medicare for All) would stand behind him on Medicare for All by voting out any 
Congressperson who opposed those ideas or weakened extant Medicare for All 
legislation. Sanders won't work to do other things we need including ending wars, 
bringing troops/contractors & weapons home, establishing a Universal Basic Income, or 
establishing a National Jobs Program (all parts of why Sanders is no threat to 
establishment power).