NYT nails sanders

[Hortensis]

53. :) Yes! Well said. We know people are waking up to

what's happening on the right and the imminent danger to our democracy, presumably increasingly, but you won't hear about it in the NYT or the AP except to downplay and put away if they must.

The stunning corruption and treason of the Republicans and his work during the Obama era made Biden understand what they will do if we don't stop them. “This is not your father’s Republican Party.” After 8 years up close in the WH, though, he was also over wanting to be president.

But the Republicans were busy dismantling 238 years of democracy and destabilizing our nation and the planet, Sanders was drum-beating populist discontent with democracy from the left in synchrony with Trump's right, none of the declared candidates were discussing the huge, existential danger that would make their plans impossible for perhaps their lifetimes, "Vice President Biden" was 50 points ahead in national polling, and the race was in stasis while everyone waited to see if he would run. That was a call, and he answered it by signing up for years of unrelenting hard work.

And the NYT's spin on why Biden was running was summed up as "Why not?" Running for president was just something he does. Nothing to do with the enormous danger to our nation that their own betrayals and systematic subversion signal as frighteningly as the Republicans in the senate.