A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
Bernie Sanders ran an extraordinary race, making lots of noise and causing great consternation, but never daring to leave the corporate duopoly. Now his job is to deliver the bulk of his sheep into Hillary Clinton’s enclosure. This final mission will require lots of lying, but Bernie got off to a good start with his surrender speech. “The Clintons have an infinite capacity for lying, and now they’ve got Bernie Sanders lying for them, too.”“Sanders’ job is to shepherd his flock into a little leftwing corner of Hillary’s Big Tent, right next to the latrine and alongside her loyal Black Democrats.”
Bernie Sanders this Tuesday consummated his sheepdog agreement with the Democratic Party, delivering a formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. The capitulation script that Sanders read in New Hampshire, with the cackling Banshee of War at his side, could have been written back in the spring of last year, when he formally threw his hat into the race. From the very start, Sanders was firm in his allegiance to the Democratic wing of the corporate duopoly, and any indications to the contrary were purely products of his supporters wishful imaginations.
Bernie Sanders did not lie to his followers; they deceived themselves, just as most of them – the ones that were old enough – had fooled themselves into believing that Barack Obama was a peace candidate and a political progressive back in 2008, although Obama’s actual record and policy pronouncements showed him clearly to be a corporate imperialist warmonger – a political twin of his principal primary election opponent, Hillary Clinton and her philandering, huckster husband.
Back then, phony leftists like Bill Fletcher and Tom Hayden swore on their mothers’ honor that Obama’s campaign was really a people’s movement, a prelude to revolution – as if the Democrats, a militarist corporate political party, could give birth to an anti-corporate, anti-militarist people’s revolution.
Real Fascist vs. Trump Cartoon Version
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ernie Sanders threw around the word “revolution” quite a bit. He was still using it in his surrender speech on Tuesday, assuring his flock that the revolution would continue as he marched arm in arm with the most dangerous person in the world, today – far more dangerous than Donald Trump, who will be buried in a landslide of historical proportions in November by a multi-billion dollar mountain of campaign contributions from Hillary Clinton’s Democratic and Republican friends on Wall Street. Sanders’ job is to shepherd his flock into a little leftwing corner of Hillary’s Big Tent, right next to the latrine and alongside her loyal Black Democrats, who are so meek in the presence of power that they won’t even complain about the smell.In his kow-tow to the Queen of Chaos, Sanders put words in Clinton’s mouth that she never really said, and that would be lies if she did say them. Hillary “feels” this, Hillary “believes” that – it was as if he could read Hillary’s mind. Hillary “knows,” said Sanders, “that something is very wrong when the very rich become richer while many others are working longer hours for lower wages.” Maybe she does know that, but she has no intention to do anything about it – just as she had no intention of allowing the Democratic Party platform to oppose TPP, although she claims she’s against it. As for those compromises Clinton did make on the platform: she was lying. The Clintons have an infinite capacity for lying, and now they’ve got Bernie Sanders lying for them, too.
If only 5 percent of Bernie Sanders’ 13 million voters formed or joined a party of the 99 percent – let’s say, the Green Party – that party would have nearly twice as many members as the British Labor Party. which would be one helluva start. Or, they can crawl along with Bernie into Hillary’s stinking Big Tent, where the real fascists live – the ones with actual experience in regime change, nuclear brinksmanship and mass Black incarceration.
For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to BlackAgendaReport.com.
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Why are Sandernistas so ‘Disappointed’ w Bernie?…
Submitted by Nixakliel on
For Backing Billary, When HE Said from the Get-Go That’s What He’d DO??? This was so predictable & actually predicted by BAR’s Bruce Dixon, Glen Ford, Margaret Kimberley, & Paul Street- months or even a yr ago!
The fact is Bernie ‘sold out to Billary’s DLC Dims, when he refused to run as an indy 3rd party candidate, making the ‘tactical’ [= expedient] choice to run as a Dim instead, stating he did NOT want to be a so-called Nader type ‘spoiler’, & committing to backing Billary if he lost the Dims’ POTUS race to her [also a far gone conclusion from the get-go].
Thus IMO Sandernistas would only had the right to be ‘disappointed’ by Bernie endorsing Killary, had he LIED about it from the Get-Go, which he did NOT!!! IMO too many Sandernistas have been too caught up in the ‘Feel the Bern’ hype to do clear-eyed analysis. In one TRNN segment aired just prior to the NY St Dim primary, Sis Kimberley explained why she was NOT ‘Feeling the Bern’ & why Blacks should NOT see Bernie as their new ‘Great White Hope’ either [she said ‘Blacks.shouldn’t vote for Billary, but nor should they vote for Bernie either’]. Man did this get a rise out of many TRNN Sandernista commenters!! Many of them dissed Sis Kimberley as just ‘angry & irrational’ [I listened & read the transcript of Sis Kimberley’s talk several Xs, & it was the exact opposite of angry & irrational].
IMO these [white] ‘liberals’ / faux ‘progressives’ likely would NOT tag Jill Stein &/or Kshama Savant as angry & irrational for saying basically the same thing re Bernie & the Dims!! And man did some of TRNN’s die-hard Sandernistas take it personal [IMO they’re the ones who were really angry & irrational], when I said how this would all basically play out- including that Billary would easily win NYS vs Bernie, Ditto for Penn St, NJ, & even Cali. One dude got so pissed at me when I posted the NY State primary results, he got out-right rude & indignant!!! As Bro Dixon has said, we’ve seen this script play out before since Jessie’s Dim POTUS runs, then there was Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, & even the ‘Obama Candidate’. Bro Dixon calls it the role of the Dims’ ‘Sheep-Dog’ [Paul Street says Bernie played the role of the Dims’ ‘Judas Goat’]- IE: to herd progressives back to the Corp DLC Dims’ ‘pasture’ [or per Mr Street the Dims’ ‘slaughter-pen’]!!
Then there’s this ‘theater’ Bernie played re the ‘Platform’ fight- Which is just a symbolic piece of paper anyway. The only ‘real’ [symbolic] concession the Sandernistas got at the Dims’ platform confab, was a &15/hr min wage, plus some totally symbolic language re abolishing the death penalty [can’t happen without a new federal law- that’s now basically up to each individual state &/or the SCOTUS Court from time to time]. On every other major issue the Sandernistas were basically SHUT-OUT / Locked-Out, & their FAILURE to get any real concessions from Billary’s crew re the TPP risks undercutting the $15/hr min wage & any symbolic ‘green-gains’ in the long-run [they lost re gas-fracking too]. Thus IMO it was all basically just a ‘show’ for Bernie to seem to put-up a fight, before bending & rolling over for Billary / Killary!!!