It
happened! A 28-year-old super-progressive beat the personification of
the establishment in the Democratic primary! Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district,
defeating the establishment baron, Joe Crowley. This has been
described by many, rightfully, as the biggest upset victory in the
2018 midterm election season.
What are
the origins of this amazing, unprecedented result in the US political
process?
We can
find them in the 2016 Democratic primaries. Back then, Bernie Sanders
put the foundations of a truly progressive movement that could beat
the neoliberal establishment. We wrote
then that Bernie speaks straightly about things
buried by the establishment, as if they were absent. Wall Street
corruption, growing inequality, corporate funding of politicians by
lobbies. He says that he will break the big banks. He will provide
free health and education for all the American people. Because of
Sanders, Hillary was forced to speak about these issues too. And
subsequently, this starts to shape again a fundamental ideological
difference between Democrats and Republicans, which was nearly absent
for decades.
But none
of this would have come to surface if Bernie didn't have the support
of the American people. Despite that he came from nowhere, especially
the young people mobilized and started to spread his message using
the alternative media. Despite that he speaks about Socialism, his
popularity grows. The establishment starts to sense the first cracks
in its solid structure. But Bernie is only the appropriate tool. It's
the American people who make the difference.
The
establishment apparatus (starting from the DNC), put all its energy
to beat Bernie by all means. Yet, we also wrote that, no matter who
will be elected eventually, the final countdown for the demolition of
this brutal system has already started and it's irreversible. The
question now is not if, but when it will collapse, and what this
collapse will bring the day after. In any case, if people are truly
united, they have nothing to fear.
Cortez’s
huge victory proves that we were right. But why this particular
victory is so important?
Both
substance and symbolism here may trigger an unprecedented
transformation and dramatic shift of the Democratic party further to
the Left. A transformation that will mark the decoupling of the Dems
from the current bipartisan dictatorship that serves big interests
against the majority.
In a
potential development, the wealthy donors of the corporate Democrats
may realize that their money start to go wasted, as Cortez's victory
came contrary to the big money.
In case
that the powerful lobbyists will start to withdraw their money from
the Dems, all their bought puppets inside the party will start losing
power rapidly, giving increasingly more space to the real
progressives. And this extraordinary situation will eventually
transform the party to the ground. The establishment forces will put
all their money to the Republicans. Yet, this will be a huge defeat
for them as they will lose absolute control of the US political
system for the first time in decades. In such a development, the
Democratic party will truly become the party of the people, the party
of the real Left.
But to
see such an incredible development, we need to see more big victories
like Cortez's. Cenk Uygur of the TYT network
couldn't hide his enthusiasm for Cortez's victory, but he revealed
something that is probably the most important in the whole story:
another Justice Democrat, Alison Hartson, who lost her race in
California, took her volunteers and started making calls into
Cortez's district, and that made a little bit of a difference. That's
one of the key features that makes the difference between real
progressives and corporate Democrats. United in solidarity for the
final victory against the establishment.
But make
no mistake. In the road for 2020, the establishment Democrats will
mobilize again all their power against Bernie Sanders and the
progressive movement. And all this huge momentum should not go
wasted. Which means that Bernie and the progressives should be ready
to form immediately a third party and attempt to unite all the Left
political forces against the bipartisan dictatorship for the 2020
ultimate battle.
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