Corporate media pundits depict establishment's evident panic in front of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's huge victory
Shortly
after recent political earthquake with Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez's huge victory, the establishment
apparatus started to react as expected.
TYT
immediately responded by identifying the common narratives used by
the corporate media pundits in the following video:
In this
video you can track at least two kinds of typical 'arguments'
provided by the neoliberal ideological framework. We wrote several
times in this blog about such arguments that their carriers present
them as being perfectly rational using 'logical leaps', while in
reality, they are deeply irrational.
In the
first argument, Steve Schmidt labels progressivism as 'dishonest',
simply because it fights for free education, free healthcare, etc.
The basic 'argument' is the usual: ordinary people can't have such
things because of the enormous debt. Of course, the logical leap here
is the fact that the neoliberal pundits always avoid to refer to the
billions in bailouts to the Wall Street parasites, continuous
tax-cuts for the rich, or, trillions for the endless wars by the US
war-machine that bring chaos and destruction. Trillions of dollars –
that significantly contribute to the rise of the national debt - are
being vanished, suddenly and magically, from the whole political
discussion, to make the argument appear 'rational'.
Through
this trick, progressives appear as 'unrealistic', or 'dishonest' for
talking about such benefits that should be provided by every truly
advanced nation.
In
reality, of course, the exact opposite happens. Progressives are the
ones who actually provide simple and rational arguments. They always
condemn endless wars. Therefore, trillions would be saved for the
government to build a modern social state. Further chaos and
destruction would be avoided abroad. Terrorist attacks inside US soil
would be diminished. National debt would be reduced and millions of
jobs would be created through public investments.
But
Schmidt's second 'argument' is even worse. He puts in the same basket
the progressivism and the Trumpism by labeling both as 'dishonest',
in order to highlight the neoliberal center as the only option for
the voters. The logical leap here is huge, exactly because the
ideological gap between progressivism and Trumpism is also huge. This
is a trick that the neoliberal pundits and politicians use very often
in their effort to push the electorate to the political center. That
is, the neolliberal establishment.
Yet,
probably the most important in this case is that Schmidt struggles
hard to persuade voters that is somehow irresponsible to vote for
real progressives. And this depicts the panic of the establishment on
the prospect of a big progressive wave that could literally transform
the US political map to the ground.
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