Indeed,
the revolution has not been televised!
Without
the slightest amount of exaggeration, we could easily characterize as
a historical moment the event that took place on Jan 23, 2018 at the
National Town Hall in Washington. Bernie Sanders bypassed the
corporate media to bring on the table one of the most serious issues
for millions of Americans: health care as a right for all.
As the
Huffingtonpost
reported:
Sanders’
town hall, which was co-hosted by the left-leaning online video news
outlets The Young Turks, NowThis and ATTN, demonstrated that a
lengthy seminar on the complicated topic of single-payer health care
can draw a crowd as large as many primetime cable news shows. The
auditorium itself was packed to capacity with some 450 attendees. And
together, the live audiences on the senator’s Facebook and YouTube
pages, the the three news sites and some other outlets that picked up
the stream added up to about 1.1 million people.
So, one
of the most serious issues that was literally buried for decades by
the corporate media because they have been completely taken over by
the neoliberal regime, came to surface by the alternative media
through the Internet. The numbers above show clearly that this is a
big defeat for the corporate media.
Bernie's
political revolution had already started since the Democratic
primaries before the 2016 Presidential election. We wrote
then:
Bernie
has the background and the ability to change the course of the US
politics. He speaks straightly about things buried by the
establishment, as if they were absent. Wall Street corruption,
growing inequality, corporate funding of politicians by lobbies. He
says that he will break the big banks. He will provide free health
and education for all the American people. Because of Sanders,
Hillary is forced to speak about these issues too. And subsequently,
this starts to shape again a fundamental ideological difference
between Democrats and Republicans, which was nearly absent for
decades.
But
none of this would have come to surface if Bernie didn't have the
support of the American people. Despite that he came from nowhere,
especially the young people mobilized and started to spread his
message using the alternative media. Despite that he speaks about
Socialism, his popularity grows. The establishment starts to sense
the first cracks in its solid structure. But Bernie is only the
appropriate tool. It's the American people who make the difference.
So,
even after Trump in power, Bernie didn't let this great momentum get
wasted. He smartly capitalizes the popularity he enjoys by driving
the political discussion towards serious problems that should be top
priority for any US politician.
Moreover,
the establishment is losing power by the onslaught of real
progressives who mark significant victories in the US political
field. And this brings additional heat to the corporate Democrats who
are exposing themselves, more and more, by refusing to change the
'business as usual' agenda, dictated by the neoliberal regime.
The
political revolution is taking place as we speak and Bernie Sanders
speeds up the process. By 2020, the momentum will be strong enough to
push the revolution into its second, critical phase ...
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