2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Krugman Desperately Invokes Bloomberg Doomsday Scenario to Scare Us into Backing Hillary [View all]Jarqui
(10,094 posts)Bernie had to start somewhere so he focused on the early primary states. Without the mainstream media paying attention as they have with Trump and others, a lot of folks haven't heard what he has to offer America. Folks in Iowa and New Hampshire seem to like what he's offering.
So what is wrong with the rest of the country hearing what Bernie has to offer and going to the polls to provide their response? Isn't that what we call democracy? It's the only way we're going to find out how great a candidate Bernie can be. Media that doesn't provide that is doing a disservice to the citizens (but we've seen them flirting with doing that)
The reason candidates, particularly Clinton, want to shut Bernie up is that they fear more folks are going to like what he has to offer more than Hillary.If they didn't fear it, they could sit on their hands and just let him burn himself out.
The media companies owned by Wall Street would like to milk bunches of that Koch ad money so giving a little attention to Bernie to drain some of Hillary's campaign money into their pockets and bump their ratings during the primaries isn't going to hurt anyone in the media. They can still play king maker in the general election.
This seems to be where Krugman is coming from.
Bloomberg, Trump and Clinton: are all wealthy 1%ers with their Wall Street corporate connections. Hillary suffers a little in the first poll I've seen on this matchup.
Bloomberg, Trump & Sanders: only two are wealthy 1%ers. Sanders is a true alternative to the other two. I think he'd do better in the polls than Hillary when folks hear what he has to offer.