{"id":371068,"date":"2018-07-27T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sorry-bernie-we-need-radical-change\/"},"modified":"2018-07-27T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:27:15","slug":"sorry-bernie-we-need-radical-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sorry-bernie-we-need-radical-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Bernie, We Need Radical Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_104049\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104049\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/24315754630_2e992636c7_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/24315754630_2e992636c7_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/24315754630_2e992636c7_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo source Alex Hanson | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the more darkly amusing narratives in current establishment Democratic Party positioning for the 2018 mid-term elections and the 2020 presidential contest is the claim that the Bernie Sanders tendency represents a radical \u201csocialist\u201d threat that will tip the races to the Republicans and Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that the progressive and mildly social-democratic policies Sanders and his cadre of Democrats back \u2013 Medicare for All, progressive taxation, free college tuition, a significant increase n the federal minimum wage, the re-legalization of union organizing \u2013 have longstanding majority support from the U.S. populace.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that it precisely the centrist neoliberal nothingness of the dollar-drenched dumpster- fire that is the current corporate Democratic Party (aptly described by Sheldon Wolin as \u201cthe Inauthentic Opposition\u201d in early 2008) that has delivered state and federal government over to the widely hated, radically regressive and arch-reactionary (racist, sexist, white-nationalist, and eco-fascist) Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that Sanders goes out of his way again and again to proclaim that the changes he advances \u201care NOT radical ideas\u201d but are instead moderate reforms.<\/p>\n<p>And never mind that Bernie continues to function as an electoralist get-out-the-major party-vote \u201csheep dog\u201d for the aforementioned dumpster-fire and inauthentic opposition \u2013 the dismal demobilizing Dems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDon\u2019t Be Rude to White&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/27\/sorry-bernie-we-need-radical-change\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo source Alex Hanson | CC BY 2.0 One of the more darkly amusing narratives in current establishment Democratic Party positioning for the 2018 mid-term elections and the 2020 presidential contest is the claim that the Bernie Sanders tendency represents a radical \u201csocialist\u201d threat that will tip the races to the Republicans and Trump. Never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}