It’s Not About Blind Fealty to Bernie, and It Never Has Been
In one corner, we have those who express their “concerns” by preaching to us from their establishment-leaning soapbox a lazy gospel of “What Would Bernie Do?”
But Bernie said
Bernie accepts the 13 Russians narrative, why won’t you?
Bernie would be ashamed of this
And in the other corner, we have the “concerned.”
Bernie is a sheepdog
Bernie is a fraud and a sellout who betrayed us
Bernie is a liar and not to be trusted
Both sides seem to want us to worry more about the whims and actions of one guy over the principals, the issues he raised, and where we do agree with him. That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
How many times does the man have to tell you that he can’t do it alone, and that it’s not about him, and that he does not want you to blindly follow him?
That you won’t, nor should listen to him if he tells you what to do?
Here’s how I see the Billy Taylor idea of protesting Bernie over the DNC’s fraud. Picture this scenario:
You’re shopping in the supermarket one day. You notice what might be a wet spot on the floor, but as you do, someone else rushes by, slips on the wet spot, and crashes into you.
You both hit the floor. Now you have a bruised knee and they have a bloody lip.
Do you blame the guy who crashed into you, or do you blame the idiots running the store for not putting out a sign in the first place?
The “concerned” types of the world would have us believe the answer is to blame the guy who crashed into you for your bruised knee. “He shouldn’t have been rushing around like that! Why wasn’t he more careful?”
Sure, it’s perfectly understandable to also ask the man why he’s rushing recklessly through the store, or to “hold Bernie accountable” for not condemning the DNC’s election fraud as strongly as you like.
But that should NOT be where you focus your fire.
Bernie is only one guy. At that, he is a sitting, active US senator with committee appointments and positions he is placed in from being in the Democratic caucus — and that’s just some of why he’s working the board as he has. He’s not the perpetrator, but one victim trying to work with the hand he’s dealt.
Your fire should be focused on those who perpetrated the fraud.
This includes, but is not limited to: the DNC, DCCC, Tom Perez, the Clintons, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Steny Hoyer.
Focus your activism on folks like these and demanding election integrity.
Focus on getting unbought progressives in office — as Dems, indies, whatever label they wear — so that progressive goals stand a better chance regardless of Bernie.
I’ll leave this article. Make sure you read it the whole way through.
Moral of the story is: worry more about the issues, getting people into office, and calling out those who perpetrate election fraud. These are the things that must be dealt with. Worry about what you think is most effective in forwarding the progressive cause.
And who knows? You just might one day come to find out Bernie was with you the whole time.
