What they did, in their short-sighted effort to try to put a crown on Joe Biden’s head to own the progressives or own the social movements, we are going to look back in shame and horror at what we did in this moment when we had a movement, many movements saying if we don’t address this now, we are all going to die. And so it’s not about Joe Biden versus Bernie Sanders. It’s that we had millions of people in this country, begging everyone to listen to what we are saying. And they didn’t, and they didn’t listen. And I think that a prophet is not someone who can see the future. A prophet is someone who understands the present. And what we have done is we have scorned, shunned, shamed, made fun of the prophets of our time and we are going to pay a heavy, heavy price for not listening when we actually could have done something.

jeremy scahill