Why Millionaire Bernie Sanders Endorsed Hawk Democrat Biden For President In 2020

Democratic Party Loyalist  Sanders and Democratic U.S. Senate Leader Schumer

Some folks on the U.S. left have claimed in recent years that Millionaire Bernie Sanders is still some kind of a "politically independent socialist." But Democratic Party loyalist Sanders recently endorsed Hawk Democrat Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States.

In 2016, Sanders also ended up endorsing in the November 2016 general election for U.S. president another Hawk Democrat, Hillary Clinton, that he previously campaigned against in the Democratic Party's presidential primaries. And in his 2018-published post-2016 campaign book, Where We Go From Here, Sanders indicated how, in exchange for endorsing the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee, he was later able to join the Wall Street and Zionist lobby-backed Corporate Democratic Senator from New York, Chuck Schumer, as part of the Democratic Party's leadership group in the U.S. Senate:

"...It is no small thing to be part of leadership...In addition, being chairman of outreach would give me additional resources as we traveled around the country...I asked Chuck to put me on the team...He concluded that it made sense for THE PARTY...Chuck Schumer became Senate Democratic leader in 2017 when Harry Reid retired. Harry served as majority leader when Democrats controlled the Senate. He and I were friends...I have known Chuck Schumer for 28 years, going back when we were both in the House of Representatives and served together on the House Banking Committee...We're friends and have worked well together."

In his same 2018 book, Millionaire Sanders recalled how he has apparently spent most of his adult life in perpetual individual political office-seeking, within U.S. imperialist society, in the state of Vermont; rather than actually working very much as an authentic grassroots anti-imperialist/antiwar left or peace movement community Movement organizer:

"As I assumed my place in the Senate Democratic Leadership, I thought back to the...road that got me to this position...I started in electoral politics in 1971, when...I ran for the U.S. Senate in Vermont...One year later, I ran for governor of Vermont...In 1974, I ran for Senate again and...in 1976, I ran for governor again...In 1981...friends suggested that I run for mayor of Burlington...A late endorsement by the Burlington Patrolman's Association, considered to be a conservative group, probably put us over the top...

"In Burlington...I won re-election in 1983 and 1985...In 1987...we won that election as well.

"In 1986, I ran for governor of Vermont...In 1988, I ran for an open seat in the U.S. Congress...In 1990, I became...elected to Congress. I ended up...in the House for 16 years.

"In 2006, Vermont's Senator Jim Jeffords retired, and I ran to replace him...In 2012, I won re-election...And now I was a member of the Senate Democratic Leadership..."

In his 2018 book Where We Go From Here, Senate Democratic Leadership member Sanders also indicated why--despite the claim of some folks on the U.S. left that Sanders is still some kind of "politically independent socialist"--this perpetual political office-seeker, who recently endorsed Hawk Democrat Biden for U.S. president, has actually been a Democratic Party loyalist and politically partisan Democratic Party partner for many years:

"...In Washington, I have been a member of the Democratic Caucus in the House for the 16 years I served there and a member of the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for the last 12 years. Today, of course, I am a member of the Democratic Senate leadership team...

"In Vermont, I am strongly supported by the Vermont Democratic Party and have helped lead the effort to get Vermont Democrats elected to office, including the sate's last Democratic governor, the present lieutenant governor, and many members of the legislature. My campaign has made significant financial contributions to Vermont Democratic candidates, as well as large donations to the Vermont Democratic Party's coordinated campaigns...Given that reality, the state Democratic leadership and I agree that it would be absurd to have a Democrat run against me...For my last two Senate races, I have run in the Democratic primary, won it...and appeared on the ballot as an Independent. This is a strategy that works well for Vermont Democrats, for me..."

Millionaire Democratic Party loyalist Sanders's "strategy" of posing as a "political independent" on the November ballot in Vermont--despite perpetually running in the Democratic Party's primary in Vermont--may be "a strategy that works well for Vermont Democrats" and for him. But for grassroots anti-imperialist/antiwar left U.S. peace movement activists who--unlike Hawk Democrat Biden supporter Sanders--are authentic political independents, Sanders's historical "strategy" for individually monopolizing a Vermont seat in the U.S. Congress for decades seems morally unethical and politically manipulative. Which might be one reason why most anti-imperialist/antiwar left and U.S. peace Movement activists who are politically independent were not surprised after Sanders ended up endorsing Hawk Democrat Joe Biden for U.S. president in 2020.