The Current Fragmenting of the U.S.A (and how the 2020 Election can stop it), Part 3

Part 1 Can Be Found Here: The Green God

Part 2 Can Be Found Here: United States Deserves to be Che’d

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Chapter 3: The Obamacrats vs. The Squad: The Upcoming Civil War of the Democratic Party

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Mid-February 2020, the Democratic primaries were being owned by Bernie Sanders. Even if the turnout wasn’t as strong as he had wanted (those inconsistent voting rules about primaries are not fun), he nonetheless owned the polls, the amount of donations, and the overall amount of money racked up through donations. Bernie Sanders had a surprisingly strong run in 2016 (which was derailed by a strong Hillary Clinton campaign followed by a DNC that didn’t want him there in the first place), and even after his loss and the election, he remained one of the most popular politicians in the entire country.

Then came South Carolina, then came all the other presidential hopefuls siding with Biden (even progressives not wanting to drag out a potentially losing battle like Andrew Yang and Elizabeth Warren), an extremely rough Super Tuesday, and the rest is history.

Bernie Sanders once again couldn’t get out of the primaries, but nonetheless delivered the most controversially progressive agenda in generations, and bringing forth a variety of strong conversations that became enhanced by the pandemic that quickly followed. Ideas that would have actually helped a United States that was getting killed by the coronavirus: health care for all, more money dedicated to health, more money to help policing and police accountability, available education for all without price tags, much higher taxes for the richest bracket---a group that has managed to become even RICHER in the midst of a pandemic, much more financing to fight the environment, an environment that clearly has rebelled against the planet in 2020, and more rights for prisoners—an issue politicians would normally never touch. 

Side-Note: Special shoutout to Andrew Yang, whose UBI idea was considered to battle this pandemic. I just want to put this here so the Yang Gang doesn’t come after me. Alright, back to democratic socialism talk.

Bernie Sanders has always been ahead of the curve, has essentially a nearly perfect track record of standing up for what is right, has been on the right side of history even when at the time he was vilified for it (Reagan’s Central American relations, the Iraq War, his battles post-Wall Street Housing Crash), had consistently strong(er) polling numbers among ALL parties, not just Democrats (surviving Fox News town halls MULTIPLE times), had strong support from underrated political demographics like independent voters, Muslim-Americans, and the fastest-growing demographic of all: Latin American immigrants and citizens. NONE of this mattered however, because he’s not the Democratic status-quo, and the end result was Joe Biden, a longtime Democrat with connections to the Clinton and Obama administrations who started slow but closed out strong. Of course, Biden is a million times better than Trump, but he really isn’t the man to provide major, drastic, and extremely necessary changes to the process and to the way the United States is run.

What makes zero sense in American politics is how the most popular politician after the 2016 Election was actually the candidate that couldn’t get out of the primaries (yes, look it up, Bernie Sanders polled higher than Trump AND Clinton come Jan/Feb 2017). Then years later the candidate that drew the strongest support in donations and at the polls, even at times breaking records, once again could not get out of the primaries and had no viable path to the White House without risking splitting the Democrat vote to favor Trump and the dated, flawed winner-take-all electing process in which a mere 20-25% of the entire country can vote somebody in. Why would anyone want to vote after seeing the statistics related to electoral results and how sometimes they don’t even contribute to the eventual winner? Bush Jr. and Trump won despite losing the popular vote. This sort of thing harms the chances of true progressives and third-party mindsets to potentially wreak havoc at an election.

So even though Bernie lost, Biden won, and the centrist Dems are happy, come 2021 if and when Joe Biden wins the presidency, he’s going to be taking on an upcoming battle I’m positive he’s not anticipating:

A political civil war within his own party.

The Republican Party is way more fractured than they would like for you to believe, its just that they’ve gone quiet and complacent over what has emerged within the Party---with Trump shifting the rhetoric far-far-right, the MAGAs, the burst of KKK and Neo-Nazi and white supremacist enthusiasm taking over the Red states and the White House. But I’ll bet you anything that if Trump and Co. get slaughtered in the upcoming election, then there will be hell to pay and the Republican Party is going to be doing a lot of in-fighting to figure out what went wrong, who to blame, and who on earth to rely on going forward. It might be another decade before Republicans can even sniff gaining significant power.

The Democrats however also have a fight brewing, and it’s between the strongly-progressive Democratic Socialists led by Bernie Sanders and The Squad going up against the Obamacrats, which is led by Biden, Obama, Pelosi, and the fragments of the Clinton Era. Both parties are united in killing the kkkults related to Trump and a Republican Party that has sold their soul to the orange devil----but they are divided in what exactly transpired and how we should progress moving forward.

One of the biggest issues plaguing the United States is that the two-party process makes it extremely difficult for stronger progress from one side of the political table to even take place. There are way more Democrats than Republicans in this country, but struggle to maintain in control of the White House while maintaining the morality that the Republicans (via voter suppression, dirty tactics, gerrymandering) have fully abandoned in the last two decades. Nowadays, Democrats seek change, Republicans merely seek victories.

As the Republican Party in Washington has made complete messes throughout the previous 30 years, you have the Democrats having to clean up the mess and playing it safe instead of seeking alterations and affordable revolutionary ideas that has benefited other countries like Bolivia’s socialism, Brazil’s intense funding of poorer neighborhoods (under Lula’s reign), Ecuador’s legalizing of gangs, Mexico’s upcoming complete legalization of marijuana, Canada and the Nordic countries’ health care, Germany’s free higher education, among other ideas scattered worldwide that can easily be implemented here.

Clinton had to (try to) clean up the messes caused by the 1980s Reagan/Bush era. Obama had to clean up 8 years of Bush with the wars and the economic crashes that was caused by multiple previous administrations. Now, Joe Biden is going to have to hide behind-the-scenes while trying to untangle the webs of chaos caused by the Trump Administration-----and he may not even be the most equipped candidate for this job but this two-party system doesn’t give us many actual choices (you could claim third-party or freakin’ Kanye West, but that’s the equivalent of placing your ballot in the toilet). But these political campaigns about cleaning up messes and not making drastic changes is where the Democratic Party tends to split.

The lack of political aggressiveness also harms Democrats, and ultimately, us, the American citizens. If it was The Squad and not Nancy Pelosi running the House, Trump would have been impeached much earlier and put on a slower, more methodical trial from the Mueller Report findings as opposed to a controversial phone call that was a rather tall order to prove as a presidential removal worthy action. Instead of silly tweets sounding like angry parents, if we had progressives ruling with more power in the House there would be more accountability and more action. The Democratic Party is ruled by politicians who has the right ideas but have zero idea on how to handle bullies and those that break rules as well as win those 50/50 fights. Trump Administration has been a disaster from the start, but the centrist Democrats definitely have not helped with their inaction and public displays of discontent followed by…nothing. And I’m positive The Squad is rather sick of it.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is arguably the most popular Democrat in the White House right now not named Bernie Sanders, and she doesn’t have the full support of the centrists. Whether its Israel, the impeachment post-Mueller, the Green New Deal, defunding the police, packing the Supreme Court come January, among other ideas, AOC might as well be in a different party. In a better nationwide political system, Bernie Sanders would have his own party and they would still have an equal opportunity to pursue positions in government and compete in elections. But it’s a two-party system, and the Squad is stuck with the other Democrats while battling the supremacist administration.

But in January, if the Democrats have full control, then this is the moment for Bernie and his supporters to demand change.

Under the right circumstances, come January 2021, expect inter-party battles about: the Supreme Court, the environment, the policing system, how to handle the crimes committed in the last administration, the coronavirus relief, getting money out of politics (superpacs have to go, they’re bad for both parties), the Electoral College, the tax brackets, gerrymandering, 25th amendment, statehood for U.S. territories, helping Puerto Rico and the territories missing representation, voting rights act, marijuana, the prison system, defunding the military, free education, free health care, and many other issues always touched lightly by the Centrists and Center-Left peeps, and vigorously embraced by the far-left progressives.

This is the most-Left and the strongest the progressives and the socialists have ever been, in the White House and the public consensus. And let’s be honest, the Republican-skewed United States of America has seen a lot of problems develop because of the mindset. It is definitely time for the ghosts of Bernie Sanders’ unsuccessful primary campaigns to re-emerge and enter the White House stratosphere as Washington D.C. enters full Democrat control for the first time since 2009 (which only last two years before Republicans made politics qwhite difficult, for those of you wanting to scream at Obama’s lack of progress during his two terms).

The Democrats, despite the poor showing from the centrists since 2015, after seeing the United States completely destabilize and fall apart under a far-right administration full of complacent Republicans and brutally vicious policies, deserves to be back in full power------but under more scrutiny of the rising powerhouse known as Bernie Sanders, The Squad, and Democratic Socialism.

A vote for Biden means a vote for Bernie and other progressive leftists like Castro, Yang, Warren, and The Squad. And that is definitely a vote I won’t be embarrassed about.