The media has us gobbling up their stupid pills.
The Democratic Party big donors and their servants are in a tizzy, and their panic ( and lack of imagination) makes them reflexively consider undemocratic maneuvers as a solution. There are other solutions. One thing our overlords could do is voice full throated support for the only candidate capable AT THIS LATE DATE at vanquishing the fascist ( who is weak and has many negatives, if the media can just get past its breathless masturbatory coverage of him)
Corporations are the most undemocratic institutions on the planet, and since Citizen’s United and other rulings gave away the store to private interests, they have come to believe they get more votes than us. Individually rich assholes too have it in their heads that they have more wisdom than the president, and can shit on his legacy ( and concrete legislation) with impunity ( in public)
Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, and Obama— are absolutely establishment figures. You don’t get to be the head of the senate if you are Bernie Sanders, because Wall Street would cut your b**ls off. You don’t get to be House Speaker unless you crook a knee to some pretty appalling interests.
AOC is right, many Americans will rightly perceive the moves to swap our the Biden/Harris ticket as deeply fucking insulting, and an echo of the authoritarians on the other side. It is also, tactically a sure fire way for the party to explode in mutual recrimination ( see the message boards here for just a foretaste of what will happen). We need to be aiming our fire at the fascists ( and their water carriers in the media). AOC and Bernie could lead the charge, because this is bullshit on so many levels and cannot stand.
I just find it sad that there are so many here willing to crook the knee to the Disney Corporation or George Clooney. It is not a good look.