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Here we go again: neoliberal machine prepares ground to blame the Greens for a potential Biden defeat in November

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It seems that the neoliberal machine creates the suitable climate in order to put the blame on the usual scapegoats in case Joe Biden loses November's election.

Politico's recent article leaves little doubt. Check out the title:

Jill Stein cost Hillary dearly in 2016. Democrats are still writing off her successor.

And the first paragraphs confirm the case:

                         Jill Stein still haunts Hillary Clinton’s campaign team. “Oh woof. I can’t bear to talk about that,” said former communications director Jennifer Palmieri. For good reason: Had voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin cast their ballots for Clinton rather than the Green Party’s Stein, Clinton would be president. 

                         Now, with the Green Party set to elevate its presumptive nominee — Howie Hawkins, a longtime labor activist keen on attracting disillusioned Bernie Sanders voters and calling for a “#DemExit” — many Democrats are unfazed. Not to worry, they say: Trump will be a sufficiently mobilizing force for Democrats this time around. 

                         “I think there’s less of a concern than there was in 2016,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ longtime aide who is also heading a Super PAC dedicated to mobilizing Sanders voters for Biden. “Even those of us who thought Trump could win thought Hillary Clinton would win, and I think that gave people a license to go vote for third-party candidates. But that’s not the case now. We know Trump can win.”



From the first paragraph, the article builds the narrative: "Had voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin cast their ballots for Clinton rather than the Green Party's Stein, Clinton would be president." Meaning that, current Green party's leadership, but also voters themselves, will be considered responsible if they vote Green, in case Biden loses the election.

It's the same narrative that has been manufactured for the purpose of blaming progressive voters for choosing not to compromise with the corrupted Democratic party.

It's also impressive that the vindictive neoliberal establishment won't give up from blaming anyone who considers responsible for its power loss, like Jill Stein. Obviously, she has been blacklisted by the ruthless neoliberal centrists forever.

Recall that in 2017, The Intercept published a podcast under the title The woman Democrats love to hate. It turns out that the title was prophetic: corporate Democrats will hate Jill Stein forever.

Politico's article also reveals the arrogance in the minds of the corporate Democrats. The fact that they believe that "Trump will be a sufficiently mobilizing force for Democrats this time around", so we should "not worry", tells you everything you need to know. They take progressive voters for granted. They believe they don't have to fight for anything, (like Medicare for All for example), because "Trump Scare" will be enough to persuade voters to vote for Biden! This is the typical neoliberal lesser-of-two-evils thinking of zero-substance politics. Just only to restore and preserve the neoliberal agenda in favor of the corporate America.

Note also Weaver's phraseology (how did Sanders let these people destroy his campaign from inside, by the way?) He says "... I think that gave people a license to go vote for third-party candidates". As if people are obliged to vote for the corporate Democrats and they have to take some kind of "license" to vote for a third party!

Someone has to tell these out-of-touch, full of arrogance Democrats, that voters don't belong to anyone. And that they have to earn the voters. They have to try hard to earn their vote, not take it for granted!

And it's impressive that even the neoliberal machine itself, through this article, alerts corporate Democrats not to underestimate the danger of significant leakage of progressive voters towards the Greens. It's clear in the following paragraph:

                         Democrats could come to regret their lack of concern. In an interview this week, Hawkins said, “We’ve got Bernie Sanders refugees coming in bursts ever since Super Tuesday.” 

And further down, in another paragraph, you can see clearly that the neoliberal machine prepares ground to put Greens' new leader into the Russiagate basket, as they did with Jill Stein:

                         One Hawkins aide said Stein has “zero involvement in the campaign.” Even after criticism of Stein for dining with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2015 and evidence that Russians ran a Facebook ad promoting her candidacy, Hawkins occasionally appears on the Kremlin-backed network RT.

We saw lately an attempt for a sort of Russiagate revival, through this "Afghan Bounty scandal", which the liberal corporate media rushed to propagate intensively.

The first time, the neoliberal machine was unprepared to build an effective blame game against those who "dared" not to vote for Hillary Clinton, due to Trump's shocking victory. This time, it wants to make sure that voters will be "politically bullied" efficiently, in order to vote massively for Biden.

Yet, as we wrote recently, things won't be that easy this time for the neoliberal establishment.

Protests across the US, mostly by young people, have shown that there is a whole powerful movement now that seeks real change and it's not willing to compromise this time. Progressives are determined to abandon the corrupted Democratic party and push for a third grassroots independent party. Some of them think the Greens as the only alternative for now, but to vote someone like Biden is out of question, even if that means four more years of Trump.

And even if Biden wins in November, things will never be the same inside his party, as Bernie's political revolution is far from over. The progressive army is growing stronger and Biden will have a tough time to deal with the Leftist pressure inside the Democratic party. Maintaining the neoliberal agenda won't be a walk in the park on a sunny day.

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