2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumArtificial ideological confusion: A common practice by the establishment
Now that the establishment sees that Bernie Sanders' popularity is rising stormily, despite that he says openly that he is a Democrat Socialist, the mouthpieces in the mainstream media, social media, etc., are using logical leaps to present Socialism as something evil and authoritarian. One common practice to do this, is to equalize the Nazi ideology of National Socialism with Bernie's Democratic Socialism.The manipulation here is based on the fact that in both these ideologies - apart from the fact that both contain the term Socialism - the state plays a significant role in many aspects who determine the everyday life of citizens. By isolating this simple characteristic, the establishment mechanisms reproduce a totally distorted perception about Socialism, based on a ridiculously simplified logical leap: the state plays a central role = Democratic Socialism coincides with Nazi ideology.
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2016/02/artificial-ideological-confusion-common.html
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Oh, wait. I forget. This is American.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Just look at the people b eing interviewed at the polling sites who are going into the voting booth and flipping a coin.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Bernie has a brain, and the abililty to fight; rare characteristics in my experience. Those who will allow a soundbite and some visuals of the failures of socialism will be in the minority nowadays.
Bernie only needs to point out the flaws of capitalism by repeating his stump speech. They used to use the term teflon. Bernie is different. I don't know the metaphor, but it's just something people know when they meet. Is he honest? Hell yes. Is he smart? Yes. He's got 25 years in Congress, so they're going to have to be really creative to get anything to change his momentum.
no more banksters
(395 posts), is the possibility that the system will be forced to turn to the most undesirable, final option in order to get rid of Bernie. If you know what I mean ...