We may be finally seeing the Democratic party pulling together for a greater good. Time will tell, but in the last couple of days we're seeing politicians do things for the greater good, and not for themselves. Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar realized that they had a less than 1 percent chance of winning the nomination. They also realized that Bernie Sanders is not the person who should be the nominee. I understand that, because I believe that a Bernie Sanders nomination is the true existential threat to the United States of America. Why? First, I'm not sure a self described socialist can actually win the election versus the embodiment of capitalistic greed. Second, I think for similar reasons, the Republicans keep control of the Senate. Third, because, a wave of red voters might actually return control of the House to the Republicans. An already emboldened trump would then become even more dangerous than he is now. Bernie Sanders can not be the nominee. I think that Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar came to the same conclusion. They made a decision for the greater good. I am impressed, plus I feel that this bodes well for the future of the Democratic party.
The irony of all of this is the situation with Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Warren clearly is taking votes away from Sanders, but she refuses to give up or give in. She seems to be focused on staying in until the bitter end. Sanders himself is interesting. He seems to feel like he has a God given right to the nomination, regardless of whether he has 50 percent of the delegates going into the convention. He sounds like he's the only one who can speak up for the American people, and he certainly does a great job speaking up. He's just never gotten anything done.
Last, but not least is Mike Bloomberg. He got into the race thinking that Biden was losing ground and there was no clear nominee. Suddenly, things have changed. Biden is looking stronger. Tomorrow is Super Tuesday. Bloomberg will get votes, and he'll get delegates. Depending upon how many delegates he gets, we'll have to see how he responds. It strikes me that if Biden becomes the clear leader, Bloomberg would drop out. It also strikes me that if Bloomberg is really trying to defeat trump, he'll recognize when it's time to support Biden as the others have done. We'll see soon enough why Bloomberg is running. Is he running for the Democratic party or for himself. I hope he's running for the party.
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