Big Buttigieg Bloviations: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/02/09/big-buttigieg-bloviations-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/

by Caitlin Johnstone





Prediction: if Sanders somehow manages to win the primary, a majority of the centrist pundits screaming "vote blue no matter who" at Bernie supporters right now will help amplify smear campaigns against him and undermine his campaign against Trump.



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The UK media's shrieking, deceitful smear campaign against Corbyn last year far exceeds anything we've seen against Sanders so far in terms of intensity and egregiousness. I point this out to highlight the fact that there's still plenty of room for it to get a whole lot worse.

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Bernie's most important job is being a very reasonable thing that the people want and the establishment refuses to let them have. Force them to kill his run openly and you can wake more people up to the reality that they're not living in the kind of nation they thought they were.

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Fun fact: Amy Klobuchar's support base consists of nothing but TV news pundits and mainstream op-ed writers.

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Fun fact: the most dangerous synthetic material ever invented in a laboratory for public consumption is Pete Buttigieg.

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Most politicians are experts at the art of eloquent-sounding bloviations that never actually say anything. Pete Buttigieg is like the Mozart of that art.

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Buttigieg has almost no political history and still has to deal with significant scandals from his tiny mayoral stint. Yet he's still polling well. Very interesting.

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Nobody's shocked that the Democratic establishment is rigging the election, but some are shocked that they're being so brazen about it. Don't be. Remember, there are no consequences for these people: they know they'll never lose their jobs, and they're fine with Trump winning.

If you're suffering under the status quo, you're much more likely to care about changing it. If you're benefiting from the status quo, you're more likely to care about protecting it and making sure you never become one of those poor suckers who are being crushed to death by it. Establishment lackeys benefit from it.

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One under-appreciated establishment-friendly perk of the Iowa caucus rigging is that the scandal completely eclipsed the big story of the day: the spectacular face-plant of the anointed king Joe Biden. If not for the scandal, that's all anyone would be talking about right now.

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At some point the establishment narrative managers are going to realize that criticizing "Bernie bros" for being angry isn't an effective strategy, because the answer coming back is only ever going to be "Oh you have no fucking idea."

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By July establishment Democrats are going to be literally urinating on progressives and telling them they're helping Trump if they react in any way.

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Any political issue which doesn't directly threaten the interests of oligarchs and the military-industrial complex is incapable of delivering meaningful political change; it will be hijacked and used as a carrot or a stick by the two-headed one-party system to distract from anything that threatens existing power structures.

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Anyone who claims the left is starting a "class war" is claiming that the billionaire class has not already been waging war on normal people on a multitude of fronts for many years. They're saying that the exploitation, oppression, manipulation, corruption and poverty is all in your imagination.

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There is a large and influential political faction which has spent the last three years subtly indoctrinating the American public into assuming that all of America's problems will go away once Trump is out of office. These people are doing far, far more harm than good.

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All the major power players are perfectly fine with Trump getting reelected; he's been advancing all their key toxic agendas. Democratic Party leaders are fine with it too; they'll all keep their jobs, wealth and influence regardless of what happens in November, and they know it.




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