The Defeat of Bernie Sanders and the Perfidy of the Democrats

By Donald Monaco

May 02, 2020 "Information Clearing House" - The sudden collapse of Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the presidency comes amidst what official sources are calling the worst influenza pandemic to hit the United States and much of the world since the misnamed ‘Spanish Flu’ in 1918.  Sensational news coverage of the resulting health crisis and the daily exigencies of life under state mandated lockdown have dramatically shifted public attention away from conventional politics thereby eclipsing the announcement in early April by Sanders that he is suspending his campaign and endorsing the utterly corrupt Joseph Biden as the nominee of the corporatist Democratic party. 

Sanders’ decision to withdraw from the race represents an anti-climactic end to his “political revolution.”  His endorsement of Biden constitutes a betrayal of his many youthful, idealistic and passionate supporters.  Sanders’ political treachery is not without precedent. 

In 2016, after having been robbed of the nomination by Hilary Clinton and the DNC, Sanders capitulated to the party establishment and threw his support behind a politician he rightly attacked as a Wall Street shill during the primary campaign.  Sanders’ nauseating subservience to the political establishment of the Democratic party should not have come as a surprise in 2020 given his prior endorsement of a war criminal and racketeer for president during the last election cycle.

Without a doubt the political and media establishment worked tirelessly to deny Sanders the nomination this time around by relentlessly attacking him as “unelectable,” “unaccomplished,” “disagreeable,” “unrealistic” and “too radical.”  All of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination lined up against Sanders during the primary elections.  Several withdrew from the race and endorsed Biden on the eve of the ‘Super Tuesday’ contests.  The attack was well coordinated by the DNC.  The Democratic party and its puppet politicians are firmly committed to neoliberal economics on behalf of their corporate masters and have absolutely no use for the ‘New Deal’ reforms that were championed by Sanders. 

The attack on Sanders was also well orchestrated by the corporate media judging by the tenor of the interviews its journalistic propagandists conducted with the candidate, the questions its moderators asked him during presidential debates and the overall coverage of his campaign.  As could be expected in the land of the free press, the media presented the policy choices advocated by Sanders as being idealistic, unaffordable and unachievable, in other words, as being the politically irrelevant ravings of an impotent politician.