Don't Vote for the Person You Believe In!
Feel the Bern
W.J. Astore
The corporate-owned media is at it again, urging Democrats to vote for a sensible centrist like Joe Biden. According to Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post:
"Warren is a much bigger risk for Democrats (and the survival of our democracy) than is Biden. There may be candidates who could, if they managed to rise to the top of the Democratic polls and win nomination, be as competitive as Biden, but Warren and Sanders fail to attract a chunk of voters that Biden grabs, and by the way they are campaigning, they are unlikely to remedy that deficit."
Poor Elizabeth Warren. Not only is she a "bigger risk for Democrats." Her very emergence as a contender imperils "the survival of our democracy." And I thought a Trump presidency was bad!
Unsurprisingly, the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against Warren, Bernie Sanders, and other progressives. Bezos loves his billions and doesn't wish to share them with anyone. Taxes, after all, are for the little people, not for the mega-billionaire owner of Amazon.
It's amazing how the mainstream media peddles the same narrative election cycle after election cycle. Democrats are always told to reject "radical" or "extreme" politicians like Warren and Sanders, even though Warren is a former Republican and Bernie is basically FDR-lite. Instead, Democrats are supposed to embrace the "sensible centrist," someone like Joe Biden, who is basically a corporate hack who will run and rule as an Eisenhower Republican (just as Barack Obama did, as he himself admitted in an interview).
It's funny how the "radical" Republicans got their man (Donald Trump), but Democrats are advised to reject "radical" candidates who promise them better health care, student loan debt relief, taxpayer-subsidized college education, affordable housing, and the like. That's crazy talk! You can't have your man (or woman), progressives. You need to vote for solid old Joe Biden, or Milquetoast Mayor Pete, or someone similar who's "safe" and "moderate" in their views.
What arrant nonsense. We need to vote for the man or woman we believe in. The one who excites us. The one who stands for what we believe in.
For me, that candidate is Bernie Sanders.