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From Caitlin Johnstone Website
Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders & Youth-Led Grassroots Progressive Insurgencies
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The primary race is not looking good for Bernie Sanders. After Obama worked behind the scenes to coalesce the entire Democratic establishment behind former working brain owner and vice president Joe Biden for Super Tuesday, along with wildly suspicious election shenanigans, glaring discrepancies in exit polls, and months of manipulation by the billionaire media, Sanders appears to have suffered a pivotal loss in Michigan.
Biden is exhibiting signs of cognitive decline on a near-daily basis now and the coronavirus pandemic adds a whole new layer of unpredictability to pretty much everything, so it's technically possible that Obama's appointment of his right-hand man as his successor (perfectly normal thing in a perfectly normal democracy) will fail. But things as they are don't look good for Sanders, who has failed to come close to shoring up a dominant lead, much less the huge numbers he'd need to prevent a brokered convention.
Which is not a surprise to even the most optimistic of Bernie Brothers. But it is disappointing. The despair and deflation I'm seeing online right now is similar to what we saw after Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party failed to secure a win last year following years of egregious mass media propaganda. And understandably so; pretty much everyone on the left understands that we're coming up to a do-or-die point as a species right now, and they were hoping that they'd be able to use electoral politics to tilt us toward "do."
But that's just it: the electoral politics in this empire are not designed to benefit humanity, they're designed to give us the illusion of control while the people with actual power run things. Elections are like the unplugged video game controller you hand your little brother so you don't let him have a turn playing.
The real goal here was never to "win" at electoral politics, it was to get more people to wake up to the fact that they've been handed an unplugged controller.
And to that end Bernie's primary race has been very successful. The Democratic establishment was pressured so hard that it was forced to engage in a brazen coordination against the most popular candidate right before Super Tuesday, in order to install an actual, literal dementia patient whose neurological deterioration will be brought to mainstream attention in the coming months.
They've been forced to do this all out in the open, and it was necessary to make them do it. If there had been no anti-establishment candidate running and no forceful grassroots movement behind them, they could have slid in a nice fresh-faced empire loyalist like Elizabeth Warren or Pete Buttigieg with no difficulty instead of settling for the former veep who they themselves were all calling senile in 2019.
Now people can see them. Now #DemExit is a top trend on Twitter as progressives realize that they were sabotaged by the party's leadership. This will only get more obvious as rank-and-file liberals realize that a clearly unqualified candidate was installed to thwart the candidate with a functioning brain, and that neither their party's leadership nor the news media responsible for informing the populace ever told them that this was happening.
Which has only ever been the real goal of the 2020 primary for those with an ear to the ground. Not the delusion that the nice oligarchs would maybe allow the people to have a president who works against the interests of the oligarchy, but that by pushing an anti-establishment candidate so hard into the mainstream that his campaign had to be openly sabotaged they could awaken the public to the fact that they live in an oligarchy.
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