The 3 horrors we have learnt from the Mueller report & why Bernie Sanders is our only hope

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Martyn Bradbury
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There are 3 things we have learnt from the Mueller Report and they all add up to a conclusion that leaves the planet in a lot more danger than anyone feared.

1 – Mainstream media have had their credibility demolished

Week after week, month after month CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times and dozens of other online progressive news soy’s have screamed and brayed that Trump was guilty of collusion. This inane need to blame Russia for Trump’s win is a deeply engrained level of self delusion.

I think blaming Russia for ‘hacking’ the US Election is deeply counter productive.

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Firstly, it’s just outrageous that the American’s who have committed coups, electoral fraud and mass deceptions on 81 other nations over the years are in any position to lecture or complain about interfering in other peoples elections.

Secondly, it allows the Democrats off the hook. Instead of acknowledging they ran a terrible candidate and fielded neoliberal policies that hurt the very workers they had simply assumed would vote for them, the Democrats can avoid scrutiny of their own rigged primary process, the manner in which Bernie Sanders was unfairly treated and their hollow policies by blaming it all on Russia.

Newsflash to the Democrats – Trump didn’t win because of Russia, he won because you failed to appreciate how your embrace of neoliberal globalisation hurt the very voters you needed the most.

One estimate puts the budget of Russian interference in the election via social media advertising at $250 000. With all due respect for American Democracy, if you can influence an election with a mere $250 000, you have way bigger problems than Putin.

We can scream racist and sexist as much as we like at Trump voters, but when Trump wooed Union families, women and the working poor in such huge numbers, something else needs to be examined as the reason this malignant tumour of a human being has been forced upon us all.

The free market globalisation that the Democrats embraced has robbed the domestic working classes of their dignity and economic ability to survive. Bernie Sanders understood this which is why he would have been able to woo those voters Trump needed back to the Democrats and beat Trump, but the vile corruption within the Democrats (who played to the elites within the Party) robbed Sanders of his nomination in a rigged system set up to prevent a populist left winger ever winning the candidacy.

By putting the Identity Politics of being the first Woman to win the Presidency over the economic needs of the poor, the Democrats handed the election to a snake oil merchant like Trump.

Refusing to acknowledge failed economic policy and corruption within the Democrats in allowing Trump to win makes the chances of him winning again more likely, not less likely and that attempt is now occurring against the back drop of Trump being able to crow ‘Fake News’ because the Mueller report did not find him guilty of collusion when every progressive mainstream media outlet had already hung him for being guilty.

We need progressive news outlets more desperately than ever before and their unconstrained glee at judging Trump mattered more than the truth which has demolished their credibility when we demand it most.

 

2 – The insanity of the Trump White House is far more dangerous than we ever feared

So what has been revealed by the Mueller Report? A dangerously dysfunctional Administration where Trump is raving and lashing out and his staff simply ignore his demands until Trump actually forgets them. More than anything else that has been reported, this grim reality of barely contained madness in the White House should send a deep chill down every backbone regardless of political allegiance.

Let that sink in, Trump makes crazy demands, his staff ignore them and he bloody forgets he asked them.

This is insanity.

This isn’t how you run the largest nuclear armed Super Power on earth, this is how a meth cartel operates once the Crime Boss starts smoking the product.

 

3 – Trump is too stupid to collude 

What we must now acknowledge about Trump is that he is a gut politician not a strategist, he’s just a dog barking at every car and his narcissism is so over whelming he doesn’t posses the interpersonal communication skills to collude with anyone because that would require him being able to see someone else point of view for 30 seconds.

He doesn’t possess that ability.

Add the unbelievable amateur hour antics of his staff, and it all adds up to someone too stupid to collude.

 

Conclusion

We have a mainstream progressive media who have discredited themselves and a White House that is an active danger to the rest of us run by a President who appeals to the worst and most fearful parts of our psyche.

The only way you beat negative populism is with positive populism. Bernie Sanders can appeal to the working class voters the Democrats walked away from by promising them universal services such as education and health care in a way that doesn’t belittle or speak down to them.

The question is will the compromised elite leadership within the Democrats allow Bernie to win and put at risk those private education and private health corporate interests.

35 COMMENTS

  1. Context. For example, Hillary Clinton endorsing Bernie Sanders (fat chance) would help smooth over hurt feelings of Clinton supporters feeling like Bernie Sanders fucked them in 2016, and I do like to drink tears. Given that there were a lot of people who supported Clinton in 2016, that would be more significant for Sanders than winning the rigged primary in 2020 and yeah Nancy Pelosi is hard at work squishing the progressives with in the DNC.

  2. “Let that sink in, Trump makes crazy demands, his staff ignore them and he bloody forgets he asked them.”
    If this is true I don’t see how Trump can be any danger. If his staff ignore his instructions then someone else is making the decisions that America is acting on. The Deep State presumably. So what’s new? The only difference with any other president is that Trump wanted to do some things differently. The fact that the US president’s power is an illusion is all that is being revealed.
    That doesn’t make us any safer though. They’r all mad .
    D J S

  4. -What we must now acknowledge about Trump is that he is a gut politician not a strategist, he’s just a dog barking at every car and his narcissism is so over whelming he doesn’t posses the interpersonal communication skills to collude with anyone because that would require him being able to see someone else point of view for 30 seconds.

    He doesn’t possess that ability.-

    Er… Are you writing about Trump or Winston Peters?

  5. WASHINGTON — When Leah Daughtry, a former Democratic Party official, addressed a closed-door gathering of about 100 wealthy liberal donors in San Francisco last month, all it took was a review of the 2020 primary rules to throw a scare in them.

    Democrats are likely to go into their convention next summer without having settled on a presidential nominee, said Ms. Daughtry, who ran her party’s conventions in 2008 and 2016, the last two times the nomination was contested. And Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is well positioned to be one of the last candidates standing, she noted.

    “I think I freaked them out,” Ms. Daughtry recalled with a chuckle, an assessment that was confirmed by three other attendees. They are hardly alone.”…..these people would rather eat their own young than let Bernie run. Hence the large number of candidates.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-party.html

    Meantime over at the increasingly irrelevant Guardian…
    “The B-Team: are Beto, Biden and Bernie the best Democrats can offer?”

    Here we go again..

  6. Sanders’ chances of getting to be President? Reagan was a couple of weeks shy of turning 70 when first elected. Trump 70, four months or so short of 71.

    A short while before election time Sanders will turn 79. How strong will the talk of policies have to be and the playing of populism in a society like the USA to overcome what some will see as a handicap of years?

  7. Jay’s is on the money. Trump is not stupid, to think so indicates that his opposition must be far dumber, after all he won an impossible race against both parties.

    Reality is we shouldn’t be arguing Trump versus whoever because either way, due to their imperial capitalist colonialist system we lose. Who really cares who is doing the oppression? Hillary “we came we saw he died” Clinton…what a nightmare. Bernie “I will reform welfare but leave the plutocracy I place” Sanders. Do you really think any of those buggers give a rats arse for their people, or us?

  8. Leadership 

    What is the sort of leadership we need if we hope to avoid the worst impacts of climate change?

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/17/bernie-sanders-raises-bar-even-further-climate-vow-ban-fracking-all-new-fossil-fuel?fbclid=IwAR3WpP7HJDztCOfCRxhKMZRipy73xyarsSQKQE1hRxrE7pf4kRWeUw53x 

    Common Dreams

    Bernie Sanders ‘Raises the Bar Even Further’ on Climate With Vow to Ban Fracking, All New Fossil Fuel Projects

    “That is exactly the kind of leadership we need if we hope to stop the worst impacts of climate change.”

    by Jake Johnson, staff writer 

    Bernie Sanders won praise from environmental groups after releasing a climate platform that calls for a complete ban on fracking, a moratorium on all new fossil fuel infrastructure, an end to oil exports, and a Green New Deal.

    “Climate change is the single greatest threat facing our planet,” the Vermont senator and 2020 contender wrote on the climate page of his website, which was unveiled this week…..

    Will someone like Bernie Sanders ever be let anywhere near the levers of power by the Democratic Party establishment?

    Now, that is another question entirely.

  11. Hard to argue with anything you have written here Martyn.We live in interesting days.What we are witnessing is the death throes of the U.S. Empire. And that, history shows us, is when Empires are at their most dangerous.When the elephants rumble, the mice may well choose to hide.On the other hand I would rather go down defiantly fighting Tyranny than with a squeak!!!

    • WHAT TYRANNY ?!?!?

      Has Donald J Trump come all the way over to NZ and tyrannized you personally ?

      Frankly I don’t think you even know what ‘tyranny ‘ actually is !!!

      Try Pol Pot, try Mussolini , try Stalin , try Hitler – try any number of historical despots !!!

      Tyranny my bloody arse.

      You wouldn’t know what bloody tyranny is if you tripped over it , FFS !!!

      • Have to agree Katipo, I’m laughing at all those who regard Trump in the same league as some of those horrors.

        That said all this argument about the “prez” hides the real issues generated by US imperialism. The one flying under our media radar that is of most concern is the US / Saudi / Isreali escalation against Iran. A quarter of the world oil goes through Hormuz…..high risk for world economy. Whilst the world’s so called thinking class argue about Trump the Dem / Rep neocon Nexus rattles sabres. What these useful fools argue about is who should lead their enemy.

      • Some, WK, tyranny comes in a business suit and tie. Sometimes, a tyrant doesn’t need to tyrannise – it has it’s minions.

        Not all tyrants are of the ilk you list. (And I could add many others; Franco, Pinochet, the Kim Dynasty, Mao, et al.)

        The worst tyranny, in some respects, is a popular leader with mass appeal. They’re the worst ones because they suck in so many followers.

        Even after the collapse of the Nazi regime on 8 May 1945, many ardent German admirers of the tyrant committed mass suicide. Their identification of their Leader was so complete that when Hitler died, they followed suit.

        We had our own form of unrecognised demogogue with our own popular leader. Remember him? The one often referred to as The Smiling Assassin?

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