It hasn’t taken long for the “business friendly” wing of the Democratic party to mobilize against the few good, progressive Democrats in office in an effort to quell any momentum towards what Wall Street and other uber wealthy, elite establishment power brokers call “populism.”
After last week’s loss of the Senate to Republicans and the gaining of more Republican seats in the House, the Clintonites and her Wall Street cronies that have corrupted and infected the Democratic party, are trying to pull a fast one. After promoting disastrous candidates with some of the worst losing strategies employed in recent memory, such as Allison Grimes in Kentucky, the corporatists are moving quickly to override and silence the progressive wing of Democrats. They fear that honest and accurate criticism among liberals who point out why the Democrats lost so big, could damage their chances of securing 2 years ahead of time, their already anointed puppet, Hillary Clinton.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been winning the support of grassroots liberals and progressives for some time now, with her economic message of fairness for average Americans and her criticism of the financial industry and its criminals on Wall Street who wrecked the global economy, got promoted to President Obama’s cabinet, received tax payer bailouts, multi-million dollar bonuses, and quickly moved to gut any meaningful reform to prevent future Big Bank created crises.
Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, an Independent who is considering a run for president as either an Independent or a Democrat, has also been inspiring hope in jaded voters who desperately hope that someone in mainstream politics is still willing to fight for average Americans and popular causes.
A quick list of what the mainstream media always calls a “populist” message, under thinly veiled contempt for any candidate who dares challenge the corporate status quo of America’s decline into a Third World style economic system, include such radical ideas as: raising the minimum wage, healthcare for all, strengthening Social Security, raising taxes on the wealthy and making corporations pay their fair share of taxes instead of domestic spending cuts for the working class and the poor, and less spending on the giant military industrial complex that has led to an endless “war on terror.”
It shows a real contempt for democracy when the media begins its propaganda campaign to smear candidates who gain recognition for their, gasp, “popular” ideas that resonate with voters. The smear campaign usually starts out slowly, with phony admiration coupled with the subtle message of “they can’t win.” This has been the case with such past candidates as Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, and Ron Paul, among others. When the “popularity” of such candidates rises to an uncomfortable level among the corporate elites who run both political parties, the more overt criticism begins. Candidates are then described as “protectionists,” “far right,” “far left,” “radical,” “isolationists,” or “crazy.” If these labels fail to stick, the media then employs its tactic of a widespread media blackout. The candidates are underreported, if reported at all, or ridiculed, and forbidden, of course, to participate in the presidential debates. This is done to maintain the illusion of choice, when the choice is among one of the two Big Business Party’s two choices.
In an article in the New York Times today titled “Spurred by Midterm Losses, Liberal and Moderate Democrats Square Off Over Strategy,” another strong progressive voice, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio has this to say:
““Too many Democrats are too close to Wall Street, too many Democrats support trade agreements that outsource jobs and too many Democrats are too willing to cut Social Security — and that’s why we lose elections,” and “The message I heard from all of them was: the Democratic Party should fight for the little guy.”
And how have the Hillary zombies and puppet masters of the Democratic party responded so far? They have created a new “position” just for Elizabeth Warren, which the Times article claims is designed to “help provide a bridge to liberals.” Salon magazine today reports of Mrs. Warren’s new position as Senate Democratic Message-maker in an article titled “R.I.P., Elizabeth Warren ’16 fantasy: Why she’s really (probably) not running for president now.”
Mrs. Clinton, and Democrat “centrists” – a term meaning further to the right and beholden to the needs of the top 1 percent instead of most Americans – believe that giving lip service to the concerns of voters expressed and championed by bold leaders such as Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Sherrod Brown, will be enough to ensure a Clinton, Corporate, War Machine nomination in 2014. These cowards are attempting to bribe Mrs. Warren into not running by giving her a new bullshit title. I sincerely hope voters of all political stripes see through this propaganda and support candidates with conviction, instead of the dynasty heads like Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush on the Republican side of the Two Party Oligarchy.