Bernie Versus Chameleon Obama

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Support for the current status quo, in which working class people never get what they deserve while the top 10% keeps getting richer, is bipartisan. This you already know if you're interested in politics and don't get your information through mainstream media alone.


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This is the core of America's democracy, as well as most of them all over the world: it doesn't matter which team you're on, the team will never do anything to make real changes, especially not if those changes hurt the upper class, the millionaires and the billionaires. It should come as no surprise then that the title of this post is what it is: Bernie Sanders, who has the courage to label himself a democratic socialist, will have to defeat the Republican - as well as the Democratic establishments. Back in 2016 Bernie already had a good chance to become the Democratic nominee, but it was the Democratic party establishment members who made sure it was Hillary Clinton instead. So America got Trump, the OTHER populist who promised to upset the status quo and "drain the swamp"; it should be clear by now to even the most hardened Trump supporter that this was a lie.

Trump just spoke the words people wanted to hear, which was that he would stand up for the working class people of America. Apart from him blaming immigrants, a message that also found a lot of support and is a tactic used by right wing populists all over the world, he did a great job convincing blue collar workers. Barack Obama before him had a similar quality; he also campaigned on working class people's wish for change, REAL change, that benefits them instead of the rich. Of course, Obama did no such thing, as he also turned out to be a servant of the status quo. Still, Obama is one of America's most popular presidents and has a very high approval rating, even today; this is yet another indication of how badly informed many people still are... I mean he gave away his medicare for all plan and instead gave America the Affordable Care Act, which amounts to demanding from everyone that they buy private insurance; more people got covered, yes, but prices still went up. He also was a "drone king" and bombed 7 countries killing many civilians, but somehow people forgive him, probably because supposedly Osama Bin Laden was killed under his watch. The use of the word "supposedly" is not accidental: there's no proof whatsoever that this is what happened and as far as I know, Bin Laden has been pronounced dead on several occasions before Obama finally got him for real...


Krystal Ball: What will Obama do to stop Bernie Sanders

I focus on Obama here, who after his presidency wasted no time to enjoy an extravagant millionaire's life and has proven to be a regular political chameleon, because of what he recently said in a Politico interview. First, here's a quote by him that shows who he has always been, a typical establishment Democrat or, in other words, a moderate Republican: "The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that, you know, if I'd set the same policies I have back in the 1980s, I'd be considered a moderate Republican." This also says something about the Overton window shifting to the right the last half century, which is why even moderate leftist politics are quickly labeled "socialist", when they are in fact 100% capitalist with just a tad more government regulation and oversight. Obama has previously said that he wouldn't speak out for or against any of the 2020 Democratic candidates, and that he would support and campaign for whoever becomes the nominee. But now, in this Politico interview, he makes one exception: if Bernie Sanders is likely to become that nominee, he would speak up against him to try to stop him from becoming the Democratic presidential candidate...

This proves two things: 1) Obama is, and always has been, a staunch defender of the establishment and their beloved status quo, and 2) the establishment truly fears a Sanders presidency and will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening. Remember that Bernie is not a Democrat but an Independent and has a 40 year track-record of fighting against the establishment and for the common folks; he owes allegiance to none of the party establishments from either side. Both videos today highlight Obama's willingness to speak out against the only true Democrat, who isn't even a Democrat, but the one below paints a very clear picture of how Obama hast changed from 2006 on, and how Bernie hasn't. It's quite the unsettling contrast to witness Obama in 2006 enthusiastically endorsing Bernie, opposed to what he has to say about the man now that he's become part of the millionaire class himself...


Report: Obama Said He Would Try To "Stop" Bernie


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