Honestly, if you hate Sanders and socialism so much, the best way to win is to let him have the presidency for four years. Democrats are well-known for cannibalizing themselves. If his time in office is as disastrous as you expect, then congrats, you've turned a whole generation away from far-left policies. But if you go for a brokered convention and nominate Biden, you will just be playing into the young socialists' narrative of victimhood, corruption, and abandonment by the powers-that-be.
Sanders is the one who pushed my generation into far-left policies in the first place. He is the one who got them totally invested in a narrative of victimhood, corruption and abandonment. Yes, the cataclysmic failure of his nomination (and unlikely administration) may finally snap them out of it. But they wouldn't need to be snapped out of it in the first place if not for him and his lies.
In 2014, there was no clamoring for socialism, there was none of this dejection and fury. Occupy Wall Street had faded into a whimper. I was 22 at the time and the mood among millenials was just overwhelming apathy and Daily-Show-inspired "lol both sides are bad" bulls**t. The one good thing I will say about Sanders is that he yanked them out of that apathy. But there are plenty of ways that any number of politicians could have done that. I frequently compare Sanders to Beto because Beto also brought huge appeal and excitement among young voters, but did it in an inclusive, honest, progressive way. You could compare him to Obama as well. Sanders yanked them out of their apathy by telling them that things are terrible and they need to be angry, very very angry, and direct that anger at their own party. He mobilized them by saying "only I can save you, you must elect me at all costs."
And what happens at the end of it? Sanders brought young people to the place they're at, and he's set them up for extreme failure, frustration and disappointment. In the long term, it would be better if they'd never gotten involved at all.
You are blaming the egg instead of the Chicken my friend. Bernie Sander’s rise is due to two factors; a still weak economy from the recession and a failure in representation from a party who disregards the diverse faces of the working class.
The same grassroots spark that arguably produced Obama and definitely started Occupy was, and still is, hiding at the underbelly of American society. We’ve had a president and party whose policies didn’t go far enough for many in the latter half of the previous decade. Wages failed to reach up to inflation, racism peaked its ugly head all across America, BLM making headlines, and militias were occupying Native Land in search for more exploitation away from the power of the Federal government. Strikes and worker militancy only grew, with the AFL-CIO breaking apart and falling toward irrelevance whole grassroots unions fought for $15. It was not Sanders who caused this spark, but the failure of the Democratic Party to do anything at all levels. Indeed, even in states with Democratic control, it took direct action for them to do any reforms.
During Trump, things got even worse. A rapist appointed another rapist to SCOTUS, while many other rapists got off Scott free due to their connections in a real cabal of the elite. To stop this, women started going over the system that routinely failed them; in Hollywood, in social media, and even on the streets as the #MeToo founding McDonald workers have done. Right now, we are arguably facing a time where militancy and worker consciousness is at an all time high, all outside of what the Sanders campaign has done. After all, Sanders doesn’t control anything, he’s been rendered useless by astroturfed politicians and a system controlled by people who hate the poor much more than they hate themselves as a class.
You don’t want change to happen, that is clear. Your examples, such as Beto, were empty suits who only did work in easily reversible electoralism while Sanders is focused on changing the minds and policies present in America. The reason why all these other politicians have failed is due to themselves not being organic creations, built on the backs of a diverse coalition. How else can you explain the immense diversity in who is backing Sanders. And things are terrible, and they have a right to be angry FFS.
Even if Sanders fails, the grassroots organizational model just will dissipate to the background to rise again. There isn’t exactly a shortage of honest Democratic or third party candidates who will rise locally. The same could be have said with the previous abolitionist movement, it rose and fell to the forefront and back until things ultimately shifted. Now if that requires the destruction of the Whigs from holding people back, so be it.
