By Chris Hedges
February 18, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - The quadrennial
political game of least worst, or how to scare the
public to vote for presidential candidates who serve
corporate power, comes this season with a new twist.
Donald Trump, if he faces Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden,
Amy Klobuchar or Michael Bloomberg, will continue to
be an amalgamation of Adolf Hitler, Al Capone and
the Antichrist. But should Bernie Sanders manage to
evade the snares, traps and minefields laid for him
by the Democratic Party elites, should he
miraculously become the party’s nominee, the game of
least worst will radically change. All the
terrifying demons that inhabit Trump will be
instantly exorcised. But unlike in the biblical
story of Jesus driving the demons into a herd of
swine, they will be driven into the senator from
Vermont. Trump will become the establishment’s
reluctant least worse option. Sanders will become a
leper. The Democratic and Republican party elites,
joining forces as they did in the 1972 presidential
election, will do to Sanders what they did to George
McGovern, who lost in 49 of the 50 states.
“If Dems go on to nominate Sanders, the Russians
will have to reconsider who to work for to best
screw up the US. Sanders is just as polarizing as
Trump AND he’ll ruin our economy and doesn’t care
about our military,” former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd
Blankfein (net worth $1.1 billion) tweeted. “If I’m
Russian, I go with Sanders this time around.”
Blankfein, who calls for cuts to
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and who
headed Goldman Sachs when it
paid Hillary Clinton $675,000 for three speaking
engagements in 2013, laid out the stance of the
billionaire class that controls the Democratic
Party. The
New York Times reported that Mike Novogratz, “a
Goldman Sachs alumnus who runs the merchant bank
Galaxy Digital, said Mr. Sanders’s oppositional
nature had prompted ‘too many friends’ to say they
would vote against him in November. ‘And they hate
Trump,’ he said.”
“Nobody likes him, nobody wants
to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a
career politician. It’s all just baloney, and I feel
so bad that people got sucked into it,” Hillary
Clinton says of Sanders in a forthcoming
television documentary.
The courtiers in the press, pathetically
attempting to spin Sanders’ New Hampshire win into a
victory for the corporate-endorsed alternatives, are
part of the firing squad. “Running Sanders Against
Trump Would Be an Act of Insanity” read the headline
in a
piece by Jonathan Chait in New York magazine.
“No party nomination, with the possible exception of
Barry Goldwater in 1964, has put forth a
presidential nominee with the level of downside risk
exposure as a Sanders-led ticket would bring. To
nominate Sanders would be insane,” he wrote.
David
Frum — now a darling of the Democratic elites,
like many other Republicans who morphed from George
W. Bush supporters into critics of Trump —
announced in The Atlantic that Bernie can’t win.
“Sanders is a Marxist of the old school of
dialectical materialism, from the land that time
forgot,” Frum wrote. “Class relations are
foundational; everything else is epiphenomenal.”
