Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumAttacks on Sanders, Progressives Falsely Depict Obama As Lefty Failure as Opposed to Neoliberal Succ
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/attacks-on-sanders-progressives-falsely-depict-obama-as-lefty-failure-as-opposed-to-neoliberal-success.htmlA sign that the progressive cause is moving out of the wilderness and starting to rattle The Powers That Be is that the messaging apparatus is starting to attempt to demonize Sanders as a hopeless cause. That means hes moved from the first they ignore you phase in Gandhis classic trajectory of activism to somewhere between the then they ridicule you, then they fight you phases.
Well use a particularly noxious article from Slate, flagged by reader Jeff W, called, No, He Cant Bernie Sanders is an inspirational candidate, but his theory of change doesnt have a chance . Jeff W thought it warranted an NC version of Wheres Waldo? as in How many errors can readers spot in this article?
Mind you, what is important about pieces like this is not that they go after Sanders per se. The headline conveys the much bigger message: Change based on popular will wont happen, so all of you voters should just stop trying.
Now this is a ratcheting up of anti-democratic messaging when we are seeing major cracks in the institutional ice in the US and other countries that had moved strongly in the neoliberal direction. Jeremy Corbyns trouncing of the Blairites has had the elites in the UK frothing at the mouth. The magnitude of Justin Trudeaus win in Canada caught pundits by surprise. And in the US, Bernie Sanders was written off by the chattering classes from the very start of his campaign. Yet with virtually no media buys, the Democratic party turning away Sanders backers at the local level, until recently, a press blackout on his campaign, Sanders polls at somewhere between 25% ad 35% of Democratic voters, and nearly met Clintons fundraising level last quarter at far lower cost, meaning he almost certainly raised more money on a net basis...
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leftupnorth
(886 posts)It's now the big moneyed interests vs the rest of us.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)And the cacophony of mindless praise for Wall Street's Representative is deafening.
leftupnorth
(886 posts)I fear for my children's future if we keep electing different colored corporatists to office.
artislife
(9,497 posts)they support someone who is a blatent shapeshifter.
You know, I get more convinced we have to break the system and if that means leaving the dems that means leaving the dems.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)For example, take a look here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=712628
artislife
(9,497 posts)there seemed to be particular blow back to any post of that member.
Now I get it.
There are a few more who have "crossed over" and I do think of them as on the other side and learning to deal with the death of them.
I find myself even more intolerant of h than before. It ebbs a bit but it comes back even stronger.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)who likes to play passive-aggressive mind games.
artislife
(9,497 posts)but I always read the words as coming from Mr Howell and all the brain matter that accompanied that character.