In the White House, Bernie would have to compromise exactly as much as Clinton will. 1
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
The difference is that he is willing to indulge the self-deception of supporters who deny this fact because it feels good. 2
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
And everything suggests he'll be shittier at compromise than Hillary would be with the result he can accomplish less while promising more. 3
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
We may indeed need something like a revolution and the reduction of revolution to a feel-good campaign for a White House run doesn't help. 4
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
Partisan politics is compromised and reformist -- it is necessary but also inadequate, it must be pushed from left movements. 5
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
Grassroots and movement education, agitation, organization are also necessary but inadequate -- they crystallize in partisan legislation. 6
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
Democratizing struggle requires both political registers -- they depend on one another but they are different from one another too. 7
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
Confusions of radical education, agitation, organizing with partisan legislation undermine the force of each at the expense of both. 8
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
I believe present support of Sanders is suffused with these confusions, and supplemented by a narcotic dose of triumphalist fantasies. 9
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
I'm a democratic eco-socialist feminist queer who thinks the President an ungainly but indispensable tool in a toolbox among other tools. 10
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
I expect to be to the left of any electable President because I am to the left of the country who elects the President. 11
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
I guess awareness of this fact has immunized somewhat from dreams of a President as a Dream Date or some kind of Wizard. 12
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
I supported Obama knowing full well he campaigned as a center left candidate -- I felt no betrayal when he governed accordingly. 13
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
I expect Clinton to govern as a center left President just as Obama has done. 14
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
I expect to disagree with her just as I have disagreed with him from their left, knowing all the while my support of each well justified. 15
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
It is an indictment of our politics, but no less true to realize that Obama has been our most progressive President since FDR. 16
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
I expect a Clinton administration to equal and amplify that progressivity, especially if pushed from the left by movement activism. 17
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
This is how it should be. There are no shortcuts for democratic social justice struggle via celebrity culture in the White House. 18
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
People who are presently substituting a sugar rush for sensible deliberation about electability at a time when the GOP edges into fascism 19
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
will all abandon their Bernie as a traitor the moment he makes a necessary compromise or suffer worse if he fails to do so for principle. 20
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
Better by far to focus your radical energies where they do real good. The revolution is happening in America but it isn't Bernie's run... 21
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
It is #BlackLivesMatter and climate activism and the feminist fight against rape culture and for healthcare access. 22
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
Some exchanges occasioned by this twitter rant:
@dalecarrico It is an indictment of the US Left that so many are treating a center-Left social democrat like Sanders as pie-in-the-sky
— Sam Engels (@FreddyLovesKarl) January 23, 2016
@FreddyLovesKarl If that is the actual reality at hand then facing facts doesn't deserve an indictment. 1
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
@FreddyLovesKarl Maybe you think accomplishing the political ends we both desire will be easier than I do -- I hope you're right. 2
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
@dalecarrico how does this balance with foreign policy, where presidents now unilaterally make decisions via drones/rapid deployments/etc.?
— Ian Alan Paul (@IanAlanPaul) January 23, 2016
@IanAlanPaul Turning that ship around takes generations of activism and congressional action imho not the flick of a switch for DreamPrez.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
@dalecarrico You think Sanders is not electable?
— monasherry (@monasherry) January 23, 2016
@monasherry It *may* be that Trump or Cruz are so execrable that a superannuated grumpy avowed socialist could get elected contra history. 1
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
@monasherry But given how dangerous/horrifying GOP is and how fragile Obama's compromised accomplishments the risk seems scary high to me. 2
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
@dalecarrico even if all this is true why throw your support to HRC
— Ethical Outer (@lginiger) January 23, 2016
@lginiger I'd say "Because she's there" but of course Everest killed that dude. I expect HRC continuation of Obama &every alternative worse.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
@dalecarrico Partisan legislation so often disappoints because we keep these registers too separate.
— Future Politics (@FutureOnFire) January 23, 2016
@FutureOnFire The alternative is revolution (which is not a matter of voting for DreamPrez), and revolution, too, has its disappointments.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) January 23, 2016
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