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

by Paul Street

Part 9 - An Orwellian Masterpiece / AK-47?

“The media,” a left friend writes from Michigan, “did everything they could to paint Sanders as anti-American and radical and hide Biden’s awful record.”

“Why is it,” a mainstream, pro-establishment Michigan Democrat (MPEMD) responds, “that Bernie can’t just admit he lost without blaming it on a grand conspiracy? More voters voted for Biden because more voters wanted to.”

The MPEMD is off base. Bernie hasn’t acknowledged defeat yet and is too polite and respectful to blame his losses on a big plot. Call it a “grand conspiracy” of whatever you like, this is just an accurate description of historical reality: “the media …did everything they could to paint Sanders as anti-American and radical and hide Biden’s awful record.” That happened. It is precisely what occurred at “liberal” MSNBC (MSDNC) and CNN (and other outlets). MSDNC is reporting on history it helped make — “an Orwellian masterpiece” in the words of my friend Terry Thomas.

And now, as Greenwald argues, that same “liberal” media is hiding Biden’s dementia even though the media operatives and managers are fully aware of the former Vice President’s mental debilitation.

This isn’t about “conspiracies.” It’s about social and institutional power and George Carlin’s point: “we have owners.”

Voters who have been induced by their and the media’s owners to “want” Biden have “chosen” a candidate who is going to be a sacrificial seal in the jaws of the Great Orange Shark next November — unless a COVID-19 recession makes it possible for Biden to slip into an assisted care unit in the White House. Then perhaps a 25th Amendment removal, clearing the way for an Amy Klobuchar (AK-47) administration in October of 2021?

Source, links, further info:

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

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