If Our Revolution is A New Hope for progressives, then surely what we have been seeing recently is the Establishment Strikes Back.
I'm not going to link to the article since it is so despicable and dishonest I don't want to give it views, but it is well known that Politico recently ran a piece that dishonestly represented Our Revolution and essentially tried to claim that they had no accomplishments.
A few key points, Our Revolution barely existed in 2016, and so supported almost no candidates. In 2017, there were very few elections. This article from Politico was written before nearly any of the 2018 primaries happened. In many of those primaries, including ones as high profile as Governor of Georgia, Our Revolution backed candidates won.
Let's just be honest about the timing of this article. Establishment politicians realized that this was their last chance to take advantage of the fact that Our Revolution (OR) has barely had any elections in which they could run candidates, and significant success for OR was on the horizon. If they had waited two more weeks the article wouldn't have worked because OR had picked up significant primary victories. The timing of this was not a coincidence, it was poisoning the well just before time ran out.
Many articles reporting on this issue also inaccurately say that it is "Bernie's group". In reality, Bernie has not been a part of it since 2016. It is supportive of Bernie, but is not focused on him, and he is not a part of it.
Democratic Party of Virginia Chair Susan Swecker is also quoted lying in the piece by accusing OR of sitting out the 2017 elections in Virginia, particularly because they did not endorse the very centrist Democratic candidate Ralph Northam for governor. As people in both Our Revolution and Northam's campaign have said, Northam did not want OR's endorsement. He was running as a centrist trying to get moderate votes. Being endorsed by a left-wing group would have crushed that message. He didn't want the endorsement. In addition, OR endorsed about a dozen candidates in VA that year, at least five of whom have been elected. Many of those were in incredibly close races where OR's support may have made the difference.
Nearly all of the key races where moderates ran, and where OR is accused of "sitting out", are cases where the moderate Democrats did not want the endorsement of Our Revolution since they were relying on appealing to moderates. Take Doug Jones in Alabama for example. Bernie got about 20% of the vote in the Alabama primary. Why in the Hell would anyone want Our Revolutions' endorsement in Alabama. (Note, in a few very Democratic cities there are exceptions. For example the mayor of Birmingham Alabama was endorsed by OR, but Birmingham is a Democratic bastion. Statewide being endorsed by OR is basically suicide).
This is all obvious to anyone who pays attention to politics.
Let's also note the nearly 100 local Our Revolution candidates who have already been elected...
in 2018: https://ourrevolution.com/results/
in 2017: https://ourrevolution.com/2017-elections-results/
and in 2016: https://ourrevolution.com/election-2016/
Over 40% of Our Revolution's candidates have won. That is higher than nearly any other activist group
This inaccurate hit-piece also has signs of certain Democratic establishment candidates' influence. Particularly that of Andrew Cuomo, who is focused on an off amount in the article.
This was a pathetic, last-minute attempt to undermine Our Revolution. Ironically, if they played fair, and stuck to the facts, the Democratic establishment would probably be a lot more popular.
Unfortunately nothing new, the media just loves low key bashing Sanders while at the same time blaming everyone for voting Trump. I wish it was the other way around but the media in the US are seriously the enemy of public political discourse now, not the proponents of it.
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Yep, and somehow they do more research and work harder on those anti-Sanders articles.
When it comes to Trump it's all this superficial stuff they complain about. You know, tweets, "decorum", personality, etc. They almost never do a good job of taking him on on more serious issues. For example explaining why his immigration policy hurts a lot of economy, or how he opposes many measures that would help the working class. Where is their in-depth coverage of the impacts of a minimum wage increase? Or the impact of decreasing population by deporting immigrants? Or how Trump's inconsistent foreign policy on issues like Iran and North Korea make people not want to work with us? I don't see it.
I don't agree with Trump on much, but he is right that the (old) media is pretty trash. That's why people are leaving it. Now they've basically gone down to the level of YouTube click-bait, just making these over the top stories about how Our Revolution or other progressive causes are evil. Reminds me of YouTube beefs honestly.
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Yeah wow, I agree. I think it's because Sanders is actually an existential threat to the establishment, as opposed to Trump who is really no different at this point to any neo con Republican. It's the same shit, gotta be tough on crime, gotta kick out those immigrants, gotta shut down those abortion clinics, global warming is a hoax lmao, hey corporate America have a bunch of handouts. The guy is a fucking disgrace but like you don't have to dig deep for that. It's kind of entertaining how every week more shady shit comes to light about his dealings, at least on that note the guy has to go soon lol, it's just a matter of time before the guy is actually brought to like a vote of no confidence because of how much of a corrupt lying scumbag he is.
Whereas Sanders is everything the modern progressive could ask for, yet they just love to shit up his work. Remember how they made his followers bernie bros and how toxic it all is etc.? It's because the modern progressives are overrun with absolute cancer ideologues that put petty racial division and gender politics over actual good policy.
But man the guy is gonna be like 80 by the time the next election comes around. What is the deal with this trend of geriatrics running for president? Last election the major candidates were all like 70. What the fuck man, they should be retired and playing with their grandkids at that age, get these senile idiots out of politics man. Like most of the bizarre shit you saw publicly by Clinton and Trump is easily understood when you know that they are old as shit and propped up with medications. Trump at least to me gives off a strong as fuck meth vibe. I've seen a bunch of videos of him even 10 years ago, it's like a different person. The guy is definitely on something, some kind of meth or speed or something. Like that's the only similarity I'll concede he has with Hitler, the guy was on fucking meth all the time too. Yeah puts it into perspective how people were on about how "agitated and passionate" Hitler's speeches and negotiations often were. Because the guy was a fucking crackhead is why. Next time Trump says something, imagine that it's a crackhead off the street saying it. Then it will make perfect sense why he would say the things he says, and especially how he says them.
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That honestly would explain a lot.
One good thing about Bernie - and a key part of /why/ he is an existential threat to the establishment - is that he inspires so many young people. I agree his age is unfortunate, but the people he has inspired with his ideology will still be running for things in 40 or 50 years. That is why the establishment must stop him and Our Revolution/the political revolution. Because we will outlive the establishment otherwise.
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