As DNC's coup attempt against Bernie Sanders in Iowa ends up to a great fiasco, the establishment takes a good taste of the progressive movement stamina
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At the time this article was written, the DNC couldn't announce full results. Santers is behind but very close to Buttigieg, and he has clearly won the popular vote.
This whole parody depicts the attempt of the establishment to sabotage Bernie, one more time, very clearly. So, the next question that comes in mind is: What did they hope to achieve? We can only guess.
The establishment probably used Pete Buttigieg as the "canary in the mine" to test the dynamics of the primaries in the premiere. As Buttigieg has no potential to win in national level, they used him in Iowa to measure the strength of the progressive movement in real conditions.
The main target, of course, was to slow down Bernie's momentum. A glorious victory in Iowa could boost Bernie's popularity even more and make many moderates start to realize that he is the real deal. That he is the only one who can beat Trump. Then, we would probably witness a domino effect that would make more and more moderates to jump in Bernie's train during the oncoming primary battles. Under these conditions, it would be almost impossible for Bernie to lose the nomination.
Yet, the result in Iowa, despite all this travesty, showed clearly that Bernie managed to motivate many people to go out and vote. After all these dirty tricks, the DNC couldn't bury him below its favorite stooges. Bernie won the popular vote. And this proves that he is right. If people go out and vote massively for the movement, whatever they try against it doesn't work, or has little effect.
Moreover, the Iowa fiasco may backfire badly against the super PAC donors and their DNC proxies, as it has lately become almost a norm. Now, there is no doubt that the establishment is mobilized full force against Bernie. And this could motivate many people to get involved with the movement and vote.
Some may shockingly realize that they can't buy everything with their money, and they will learn it the hard way ...
After the 2016 ugly show by the DNC establishment - staged to get rid of Bernie Sanders and clear the way for its 'beloved queen' Hillary - we had to suffer another, perhaps even more uglier experience, at the premiere of the Democratic primaries in Iowa. Well, it has become a routine now.
Progressives were ready for it. And many of them didn't bother to consider 'if', but only 'how' and 'when' it will happen again.
As polls were indicating a glorious victory for Bernie in Iowa, the panicked establishment machine had very little time to deal with it. So, inevitably, its operators were about to become sloppier due to their additional panic.
But progressives had already become a real pain in the neck for the corrupted DNC establishment. They still monitor closely every move against Bernie, due to the awful experience from the 2016 primaries. Whatever the DNC tries, the de-centralized progressive structure exposes it in no time.
The news about Buttigieg's role spread very early and very quickly. By the end of December last year, The Grayzone sent the first alarming signals, revealing Buttigieg's ties with "former high-ranking CIA officials, regime-change architects, and global financiers." It was like the establishment was planning to recruit an American version of the failed coup plotter Juan Guaido, for an internal coup against Bernie Sanders.
About a month later, progressives were alarmed by the revelation that DNC chair Tom Perez had put forward a neoliberal cast of foreign policy hacks and corporate lobbyists to sabotage Bernie's nomination.
And finally, we had the complete picture of the new coup attempt against Bernie. As Max Blumenthal reported for The Grayzone the day after the Iowa fiasco:
At the time of publication, 12 hours after voting in the Democratic Party’s Iowa caucuses ended, the results have not been announced. The delay in reporting is the result of a failed app developed by a company appropriately named Shadow Inc. This firm was staffed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign veterans and created by a Democratic dark money nonprofit backed by hedge-fund billionaires including Seth Klarman. A prolific funder of pro-settler Israel lobby organizations, Klarman has also contributed directly to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign. The delay in the vote reporting denied a victory speech to Senator Bernie Sanders, the presumptive winner of the opening contest in the Democratic presidential primary. Though not one exit poll indicated that Buttigieg would have won, the South Bend, Indiana mayor took to Twitter to confidently proclaim himself the victor.
Buttigieg's unthinkable action to proclaim victory with no data results, depicts perfectly the pressure that the establishment feels by the progressive movement and Bernie's momentum.
As polls were indicating a glorious victory for Bernie in Iowa, the panicked establishment machine had very little time to deal with it. So, inevitably, its operators were about to become sloppier due to their additional panic.
But progressives had already become a real pain in the neck for the corrupted DNC establishment. They still monitor closely every move against Bernie, due to the awful experience from the 2016 primaries. Whatever the DNC tries, the de-centralized progressive structure exposes it in no time.
The news about Buttigieg's role spread very early and very quickly. By the end of December last year, The Grayzone sent the first alarming signals, revealing Buttigieg's ties with "former high-ranking CIA officials, regime-change architects, and global financiers." It was like the establishment was planning to recruit an American version of the failed coup plotter Juan Guaido, for an internal coup against Bernie Sanders.
About a month later, progressives were alarmed by the revelation that DNC chair Tom Perez had put forward a neoliberal cast of foreign policy hacks and corporate lobbyists to sabotage Bernie's nomination.
And finally, we had the complete picture of the new coup attempt against Bernie. As Max Blumenthal reported for The Grayzone the day after the Iowa fiasco:
At the time of publication, 12 hours after voting in the Democratic Party’s Iowa caucuses ended, the results have not been announced. The delay in reporting is the result of a failed app developed by a company appropriately named Shadow Inc. This firm was staffed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign veterans and created by a Democratic dark money nonprofit backed by hedge-fund billionaires including Seth Klarman. A prolific funder of pro-settler Israel lobby organizations, Klarman has also contributed directly to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign. The delay in the vote reporting denied a victory speech to Senator Bernie Sanders, the presumptive winner of the opening contest in the Democratic presidential primary. Though not one exit poll indicated that Buttigieg would have won, the South Bend, Indiana mayor took to Twitter to confidently proclaim himself the victor.
Buttigieg's unthinkable action to proclaim victory with no data results, depicts perfectly the pressure that the establishment feels by the progressive movement and Bernie's momentum.
At the time this article was written, the DNC couldn't announce full results. Santers is behind but very close to Buttigieg, and he has clearly won the popular vote.
This whole parody depicts the attempt of the establishment to sabotage Bernie, one more time, very clearly. So, the next question that comes in mind is: What did they hope to achieve? We can only guess.
The establishment probably used Pete Buttigieg as the "canary in the mine" to test the dynamics of the primaries in the premiere. As Buttigieg has no potential to win in national level, they used him in Iowa to measure the strength of the progressive movement in real conditions.
The main target, of course, was to slow down Bernie's momentum. A glorious victory in Iowa could boost Bernie's popularity even more and make many moderates start to realize that he is the real deal. That he is the only one who can beat Trump. Then, we would probably witness a domino effect that would make more and more moderates to jump in Bernie's train during the oncoming primary battles. Under these conditions, it would be almost impossible for Bernie to lose the nomination.
Yet, the result in Iowa, despite all this travesty, showed clearly that Bernie managed to motivate many people to go out and vote. After all these dirty tricks, the DNC couldn't bury him below its favorite stooges. Bernie won the popular vote. And this proves that he is right. If people go out and vote massively for the movement, whatever they try against it doesn't work, or has little effect.
Moreover, the Iowa fiasco may backfire badly against the super PAC donors and their DNC proxies, as it has lately become almost a norm. Now, there is no doubt that the establishment is mobilized full force against Bernie. And this could motivate many people to get involved with the movement and vote.
Some may shockingly realize that they can't buy everything with their money, and they will learn it the hard way ...
Some Dems would rather have another Trump presidency than see Bernie in the White House pic.twitter.com/THpk2mQOBq— In the NOW (@IntheNow_tweet) February 3, 2020
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