No, you can't just act like this isn't a matter of controversy. My understanding is that there is much behind the scenes that kneecaps the opposition to whatever party elites may want. Somewhere in here I have mentioned "counter-scheduling" - that's not a tactic used by people that want to give full reign to what "people" want, the elite will decide for them.
Dude, 1968 Democratic National Convention - all that stuff in the park happened because the elite care what the people want? Yeah, I am going back a ways, but not much has changed.
Is it supposed to be some weird accident that Sanders' former campaign advisers are now running a Biden Super PAC? I guess shit just happens, nothing to see here.
We can agree to disagree here, but I think you are wrong. I am willing to believe that people, even if they make a decision themselves, are not well informed. People mainly get told what to do. They get the signal from MSNBC, CNN, the NYT, or someone like Congressman James E. Clyburn - then they go to the polls.
You can't pretend that hundreds of hours of free air time doesn't persuade people how to act. Motherfucking Bill Maher, fake liberal, was talking about Joe Biden probably fully a year ago, about two months back he began to worry Biden couldn't handle it. I mean, you want something to worry about? Every time Trump takes a shit we have to hear about it. You don't think it embeds in the imagination of a gullible population that he's presidential such that we should keep him?
This election is far from over, and I think people backed the wrong horse - hugely. We shall see. I don't personally care either way. Biden will not get my vote.
P.S. I have stated before that the corporate powers over both parties don't care who wins, that's why the Dem party elites were more concerned about screwing over Sanders than winning this election:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/u...delegates.html (might be paywalled, apologies). That's kind of a fluffy piece, but you can read in between the lines. We know how it played out. Sanders was on top. Biden was initially nowheresville. Then suddenly Biden was the man and you could see everyone fall in line, even Sanders. Yet another reason I am about the policies Sanders supported rather than the man himself. In the end, he's kind of a wet noodle.