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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)The Bernie or Bust Movement Shows No Signs of Slowing Down [View all]
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-or-bust-movement-shows-no-signs-slowing-downThe goal is to expose campaign corruption and make the case for a progressive future.
For months now, my Facebook feed has been clogged with inspirational posts about Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders getting arrested at a civil rights rally. Bernie Sanderss modest tax returns. Bernie Sanders with a bird. Now that the delegate math is stacked against him, my Facebook feed is full of panicky moralistic posts about how Bernie or Bust is going to ruin everything, that its time for Sanders supporters to give up on ideological purity and unify behind the presumed nominee.
But the case for giving up on Sanders is turning out to be as difficult to make as the one for nominating him. Could it be that the Bernie or Bust movement, however righteous or quixotic, is not about Sanders at all, but another symptom of a high-rolling advertising-driven culture that has eroded all our trust in the social contract? I mean, if youre looking for someone to blame, Edward Bernays is your man, not Sandersand certainly not anyone who plans to write in Sanderss name on a general election ballot.
Bernays, who was Sigmund Freuds nephew, is the one who brought advertising into everyday life, not as billboard and print ads but as real events. In other words public relations, a term he also coined. Bernays kicked off his torches of freedom campaign for the American Tobacco Company in 1929 by hiring women to pose as suffragists in the Easter Sunday Parade and light up on cue. The point was to convince more women to smoke, but the whole campaign was dressed up as a grass-roots political movement. In 1954, the father of spin was hired by the United Fruit Company to set up local media in Guatemala that would coordinate with the CIA to topple the democratically elected government.
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Did they think it would? Right now they're trying to get him kicked out of campaign
azurnoir
May 2016
#3
The fight against a corrupt government will continue with or without Bernie. K&R
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2016
#6
Great you admit that you will tell Bernie to go fuck himself when he says you
Jackie Wilson Said
May 2016
#7
You will be in disagreement with Bernie. Unless you are going to vote for the Democrat.
Jackie Wilson Said
May 2016
#10
So you will be purposely facilitating Drumpfs deportations and the millions maybe billions
Jackie Wilson Said
May 2016
#16
Liberals and progressives are not wanted by, nor do we need, the Democratic Party,
Maedhros
May 2016
#21