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Finally Bernie Sanders surrendered
to the establishment by endorsing its most authentic representative:
Hillary Clinton. The move sent waves of disappointment to thousands
of Bernie's supporters who expected him to make the big step: a third
political formation that could crush the bi-partisan totalitarianism.
Unfortunately
it appears that the estimation expressed in previous article
concerning the leaders of the new Left in global scale is right. As
described back then: “The
demonization propaganda is launched every time that a "radical"
comes to disturb the plans of the ruling elite. Tsipras in Greece has
been defeated for now, but the ruling class couldn't avoid the rise
of Corbyn in UK, Iglesias in Spain and Sanders in US. Think about it.
These guys are called "radicals" by the dominant system
mechanisms, just because they want to defend whatever can be saved
from the Tsunami of the neoliberal barbarism. They are not even close
to the real Left radicalism.”
Indeed, all
these leaders of the new Left are deluded by the fact that they think
they can change the dominant neoliberal establishment from inside.
And while they are spending time and effort in political tactics, the
Far-Right grabs the chance to promote its agenda, attracting more and
more supporters.
Tsipras
finally surrendered to the Brussels bureaufascists and the Berlin
directorate by signing a third catastrophic memorandum for Greece. He
hopes in a pan-European political earthquake that could wipe out the
old political establishment. It appears that this earthquake will not
come easily, exactly because of the behavior of the new Left. Which
is something that neither Tsipras, nor Iglesias or Corbyn appear to
understand.
Meanwhile,
the Greek economy struggles to survive from the ongoing neoliberal
brutality imposed by the German sado-monetarists who are leading
the euroship straight to the iceberg, while the Far-Right extremism
waits in the corner to take the power inside the ongoing chaos and
uncertainty.
The
establishment mechanisms know how to play the game. The last thing
the new Left wants, is to be charged that it slips towards the
Far-Right values. The establishment was ready to pull the trigger in
case that Tsipras, Corbyn, or, Iglesias, "dared" to think
of supporting the Brexit vote, even from a purely Leftist
perspective. Even now, despite that Corbyn clearly supported the
'Bremain', his inner-party opponents want his 'head in the plate'!
A similar
thing happened with Sanders. The mainstream media would start
full-force attack against him, in case that he would "dare"
not to endorse Clinton. They would use the routine argument, stupidly
simplified through a logical leap: you do not endorse Hillary = you
help Trump come to power.
Inevitably,
Bernie turned to purely political tactics, as he probably thought
that it is better to endorse Hillary in order to continue the
struggle from the inside. He
“forced Hillary and Democrats to "bend"
to the left, and start speaking about forgotten people's rights that
have been wiped out by the neoliberal hurricane. It won't be so easy
for Hillary to leave all these behind in case that she will be the
next US president, because now she knows that all eyes and ears are
focused on her.”
Perhaps
Bernie wants to make sure that Hillary will stay to the left. He may
become an extra pair of strict political eyes on her. Hillary would
find even more difficult to escape and follow the neocon/neoliberal
agenda, especially when she knows that millions of Americans who are
got sick of the establishment will be watching her closely.
Meanwhile,
Trump must be very happy with the new situation because he can play
the anti-establishment role alone, while in reality, he is only a
reserve of the establishment. In fact, the
Far-Right both in Europe and the United States eventually proved very
useful to the establishment. The Far-Right monster has been used as a
blackmail tool for the Leftist forces to make them align behind the
global neoliberal agenda. Therefore, Corbyn, Tsipras and Iglesias
aligned with the establishment against Brexit and Sanders aligned
with the establishment by endorsing Clinton.
However,
what these Leftist leaders don't seem to realize, is that the global
neoliberal monster can't be defeated from the inside. If anyone
attempts to do this, he will be gradually assimilated by its powerful
network. We saw this already in Greece. After Tsipras surrendered to
the European Financial Dictatorship, his party
split losing its most radical elements, exactly as planned by the bureaufascists. Iglesias in
Spain didn't manage to increase power, despite the coalition with the
Left. Corbyn is already being threatened without even giving a single
fight and Sanders capitulated without even attempting to create a
third, purely anti-establishment pole, despite all the momentum by
millions of Americans.
Well, they
should start wondering why they can't persuade anymore and why they
are got trapped in this stagnating situation where the neoliberal
monster is ready to swallow them. They should listen to millions of
voices around the globe saying 'this is not the Left we want'. We
need a completely autonomous Left with its own agenda, ready to fight
against both the two monsters of the neoliberal establishment and the
Far-Right.
The obvious corruption on the part of the DNC in forcing HRC down our throats is appalling, not to mention the activities of the Clinton Foundation. Business as usual and it has become clear that no matter who you vote for, it is 2 sides of the same coin.
ReplyDeleteSanders supporters supported him for a reason. Mostly because they hate Hellary. We've had enough of voting for the lesser of two evils. WE have a choice and we are using it. Jill Stein if they do not nominate him at the convention. #MassDemExit then #GoGreen
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