Dear Berners: Dementia Joe is how much “your” party HATES you

by Paul Street

Part 1 - “You Have Owners”

“Mr. [Bernie] Sanders,” the New York Times reported last Tuesday, “has built a following of voters who want and expect more from their [Democratic] party, from their government, and from their country.”

That’s true enough, with some key qualifications: it’s not “their party” any more than it’s “their government” or “their country.”

Like the U.S. government and the nation, itself, the Democratic Party is owned by the capitalist class. Expecting anything decent from it is a fools’ game and always has been. It’s like George Carlin used to say:

“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations; they’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State houses, the City Halls; they’ve got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear.”

Source:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/dear-berners-dementia-joe-is-how-much-your-party-hates-you/

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