Official Bernie Sanders HQ: Not Me, Us!

[Berniewood Hogan]

 

[FAH1223]

 

[FAH1223]

2016 still got me shook.

 

[storyteller]

2016 still got me shook.

Fam, this paper is intriguing as all hell. I'm stashing it in Mendeley so I can pull it up during slow subway commutes or in the Lincoln Tunnel traffic. I don't want to draw conclusions without giving it a once over at least. This bit in the conclusion itself though is really interesting,

But our analysis of the political economy of the 2016 campaign points to sharp limits on what Trump or any other political force now operating can hope to achieve in the longer run. The emergence of a full blown dual economy means that the system no longer works for many Americans. Spatial imbalances in economic growth, the declining welfare state, and insistent pressures to cut public expenditures so as to lower taxes on the rich throw enormous stresses on average Americans. Many realize that their wages and working conditions are deteriorating, and that the challenges facing their children are intense.

The vast mobilizations against the establishments of both major parties that dominated the 2016 presidential struggle were a consequence of these stresses. Trump’s triumph came over the bitter opposition of older Republican elites; while the Clinton campaign had to pull out all the stops to contain the wave of protests from millions of ordinary Americans who actively supported an insurgent candidate running openly as a democratic socialist. In both parties, the new energy coming into the system from ordinary Americans is obvious. It fills many in power now with dread.

We are extremely skeptical that there is any way to put these genies back in the bottle. Trump himself has not reconciled with the establishment. Very early in Trump’s tenure, he essentially lost control of most policy on national security and was forced to make appointments that represented quite different points of view on policy toward Russia and, with some qualifications, China. Tensions between Trump and Republican Congressional leaders clearly run deep; their donor universes are strikingly different, as we will show on another occasion.

Trump’s own coalition is extremely unstable. Our analysis of how it developed over time reveals that it is made up of several layers of investor blocs with little in common other than their intense dislike of existing forms of American government. The world of private equity, intent on gaining access to the gigantic, rapidly growing securities markets of China and the rest of Asia or casinos dependent on licenses for their lucrative businesses in Macau are likely to coexist only fitfully with American industries struggling to cope with world overcapacity in steel and other products or facing twenty first century mercantilist state targeting. Substituting Mike Pence for Donald Trump would not change any of this nor would it end the all out war on the GOP establishment that Bannon and his allies are waging.

Within the Democratic Party, the desires of party leaders who to continue to depend on big money from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, health insurers, and other power centers collides head on with the needs of average Americans these leaders claim to defend. On medical care, minimum wages, unionization, and many other issues, there is no consensus; only intense wrangling behind a cloud of opaque rhetoric and increasingly hollow “resist” slogans. The continued pressures to blame the Russians for the Democrats’ failures is also doing nothing to clarify matters.

 

[afterlife2009]

Great to see but he seriously needs to get his old people voter number up

 

[storyteller]

 

[afterlife2009]

Great to see but he seriously needs to get his old people voter number up

If y’all don’t see the jig yet... There isn’t one poll that shows Liz having a more non white, diverse base than Bernie but it’s just spewed as an undeniable fact

“Competency” Notice they’re using the same language a lot HL posters use

 

[FAH1223]

Bernie gonna have to surprise them again :bernielaugh:

BTW when is Bernie gonna start doing the huge rallies? The ones packing stadiums we saw last cycle?

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

I didn't even know this. The DNC really did just steal votes from Bernie.

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Did any of y'all see John Harwood shytting on Bernie this morning on AM Joy? They pulled up some poll that showed him having a 5% support drop in the past 2 months (and glossed over the fact that he was second behind Biden in two other polls they just put up 10 seconds earlier) and Harwood went on this rant about Dem voters not liking Bernie because he looks desheveled, he's not a Democrat, and he calls himself a socialist, so that turns people off, hence why he's not gaining support among Dem voters.

I can say without zero hint of exaggeration that MSNBC is the equivalent of Fox News when it comes to sticking to the script and driving a biased narrative of propaganda to their viewers.

Pure garbation station at this point.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

garbation station

i dont know if you meant to type that, but i think you've coined a phrase

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

i dont know if you meant to type that, but i think you've coined a phrase

It was intentional. Don't know if I coined it but it's not the first time I've used it. Usually when I refer to radio channels

 

[afterlife2009]

Did any of y'all see John Harwood shytting on Bernie this morning on AM Joy? They pulled up some poll that showed him having a 5% support drop in the past 2 months (and glossed over the fact that he was second behind Biden in two other polls they just put up 10 seconds earlier) and Harwood went on this rant about Dem voters not liking Bernie because he looks desheveled, he's not a Democrat, and he calls himself a socialist, so that turns people off, hence why he's not gaining support among Dem voters.

I can say without zero hint of exaggeration that MSNBC is the equivalent of Fox News when it comes to sticking to the script and driving a biased narrative of propaganda to their viewers.

Pure garbation station at this point.

the breh @wtfyomom mentioned that below. They hate working people. Journalism used to be a blue collar job and they did not come from elite universities. Now because journalism jobs are getting shafted, you gotta go to these big universities to get a job so a number of them are Ivy League hacks or sound like they're from McKinsey

Legacy media has a financial stake in continuation of the status quo and if they admit the crisis at hand then they may have to cover it in a way that would ultimately cost them and their wealthy owners money

if we take biden over bernie lmao. biden is gonna get killed on the trade deals and lose the midwest and the election, biden is the least electable, bernie is the most electable, the media is completely backwards, this has been true since 2016

something ive been thinking about and i know the centrist dem partisans here arent going to like it and say its cause bernie is secretly racist or some bullshyt but i actually think bernie is an easier appeal to republican voters (not nazis but like average apolitical but vote republican voters) than to centrist democrats which shows how elitist and boogie some of them became. its not cause of any racist or anything like that., its that bernie is disheveled, hes a regular person, he isnt an elite. hed be the first non elite president which is way more important than anything else imo i think i saw that foxnews viewers have a more favorable view of bernie than msnbc viewers, thatrs fukkin sad

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

They hate working people.

It's smoke and mirrors. They're afraid of us because they know we vastly outnumber them. They hate Bernie because he's trying to wake people up to that fact.

 

[afterlife2009]