he sucks so bad
I still remember the looks I’d get saying “bernie sanders IS the compromise”
Literally the thing liberals try to pull with their fascist candidates, Bernie was the actual lesser evil. Still evil though
i wonder if he realizes that he’s part of the evil
I doubt it.
Think about the people he is surrounded by. It is easy, it is tempting, to imagine yourself as a saint when you are surrounded by people like Ted Cruz. To think “I am taking meaningful action to protect civilians in Gaza” because he defeated a bill in committee that would have sent a squadron of b52s to carpet bomb a refugee camp.
He is just as guilty as the rest, but while he may have recognized that when he was 25, at this point he is blind to it.
He knows.
BERNIE AND ME by Michael Parenti
People have asked me what I think of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Bernie and I used to be close political friends up in Vermont in the early 1970s. We ran together on a third party ticket (the Liberty Union Party). I ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and Bernie ran for the U.S. Senate. (I got 7% of the vote; he got 3 or 4%–but who’s counting.)
Bernie stayed in Vermont. I wanted to write rather than run for office in one-sided campaigns. So I spent the years writing books, articles, teaching courses, giving interviews, doing guest lectures all over the country, and marching in demonstrations. But I remained good friends with Bernie. I gave him moral and monetary support in his successful campaigns for Mayor of Burlington, then U.S. House of Representatives.
But I eventually broke with him because of his position on the Yugoslavia war, the “humanitarian war” as Bill Clinton and his national security state people called it. As did many liberals and some Trotskyites and anarchists, Bernie stood shoulder to shoulder with NATO and the CIA and the Clinton White House in the destruction of Yugoslavia, the 78 days of bombing, drenching Serbia in depleted uranium, leaving Serbia with the highest cancer rate in Europe and breaking up Yugoslavia, one of the best social democracies in Europe, though not without its serious blemishes.
Today, I wish Bernie the best. He is a Democrat although he calls himself a socialist and an independent. But he takes very good stands on Social Security, human services, and curbing the banksters. However, he has voiced not a word about what his foreign policy might be. I suspect it has not improved. I will most likely not be voting for him. Probably I will support some third-party candidate who will run a hard hopeless campaign—of the kind we used to do in Vermont years ago. ----MICHAEL PARENTI
Many people are saying it, folks!
i like how it’s “Dr. King defeated” and not the hundreds of thousands (millions) of working class people that actually protested, often using “violence,” to get idiot congress+LBJ to sign it
it’s the same shit with FDR. “oh FDR gave us the New Deal” rather than the whole thing being spearhead, really, by “violent” anarchists and communists.
MLK was a main character, so he grabbed the triforce and banished racism to the shadow realm. Somehow, racism returned.
We let it return because we did not
blue hard enough.
Same thing with India and Gandhi. Nevermind 400 years of violent struggle against the Brits, the countless lives lost and the great men and women who sacrificed themselves so this literal tool could suppress their battles and attach his feeble name to the entire movement for independence
Edit: this is not meant to completely discredit Gandhi. OTOH this is also not meant to suggest MLK was anywhere near as big of a lib as Gandhi, nor to sully his name
what?
don’t you know about American history where MLK ended racist woke DEI by writing a dream journal?
Bold of you to say that when Derek Chauvinist got put behind bars because the people gave the state an ultimatum, either you punish him or we burn this mother down, again. Fuck you Bernie you suck old man.
Or when Luigi Mangione capped a healthcare CEO and the rate of denials dropped because they were too afraid to deny people healthcare. Violence works.
I’m not advocating for adventurism, but a protracted war against the ruling class is the only option they have given us at this point.
return my $27 old man
I want my $5 back
I already peeled the sticker off my bumper, I feel I am owed
Feels like we deserve more back after they sold/gave their lists to the dnc
There’s a reason the state embraces peaceful protests: It’s because they don’t fucking work
You were 27 when MLK was assassinated and there was massive rioting, Bernie!
Fr, like he was there. He should know that wasn’t the case
He literally got fucking arrested protesting segregation, what is he on
Old age, maybe? I mean he always sucked but I don’t think he used to suck like this?
if it wasn’t for the earlier shitty stuff with him that Parenti talked about i’d say bernie died of the heart attack and who we have now is an impersonator.
The most productive way to support a movement is to tell them they’re all wrong and in fact are working for the opposition
In fairness, he is an expert in working for the opposition
Dr kings daughter posted today basically disputing this stupid narrative. Fuck you Bernie
The King family constantly has to correct people who misrepresent him, it must be exhausting
yo I’m sick of this dude
What a loser
lmaoooooooo ICE has a right to exist
Political power grows from, uhhhh, good vibes i guess?
It’s gotta be the ballot or the stern expression
a peaceful protest movement is the language of the unheard
when our turn comes we will not make excuses for the strong language
etc
I am going to become incandescent
: The FBI may have murdered MLK, but it falls to all of us to murder the movement
