Same language, same accusations.
Read the comments on this article.
Calling centrists Democrats in name only. Accusing them of being Republican. Secretly siding with Paul Ryan?
Remember what happened last time? Berners refuses to vote or voted for Trump.
Same thing happened in Canada. Dippers refuses to vote strategically and wound up splitting the vote so many ridings went blue with less than 35% of votes.
Sabotage from within the ranks of Progressives.
Is it organic? If you believe it is, you’re more gullible than Berners and Dippers.
It isn’t rational thinking to refuse to vote to save democracy. It’s irrational, self defeating behaviour; inexorable, inflexible & obstructive.
It should be setting off alarm bells.
Thought reform is being conducted on both sides of the political spectrum.
This is a feature of Russian political interference in Eastern European fledgling democracies, African, South & North American democracies.
My experience with far left in Canada has demonstrated futility in trying to reason with people who have become Berners/Dippers. They’d sooner cut off their nose to spite their face than listen to reason.
Like:
*But he bought a pipeline
*Proportional Representation
*JWR/SNC
*Green New Deal
*Black face
*Crooked Hillary
*But her emails
*Benghazi
*Lock her up
*DNC convention was rigged
*Military hawk
*Woke Blacks
They are cues for the far left to immediately halt consideration of a narrative and reject it in favour of the cliche response.
At that point, any rational consideration of ideas and facts becomes fruitless and futile.
Everyone unaffected has experienced this at least once on both sides of the political spectrum.
Psychological manipulation and cult like adherence to political loyalty is destroying democracy. It’s made it impossible to consider alternate opinions and examine facts.
It’s coming from both sides. Far right and far left.
Organically, most populations are centrists. Finkelstein Method pushes warring tribes to the extremes of ideological belief and divides the electorate.
It’s a tactic used to divide and conquer.
It’s populist BS meant to muddy the water and clear a path for conservatives.
It’s also an adapted Russian strategy to destroy democracy. Pressure from both ends of the political spectrum.
If your ideas are so great, you shouldn’t need populist methods and negative tactics. Your ideals should resonate with the majority.
I’d you want democracy, then let democracy determine who the next Democratic presidential candidate will be. And realize it may not be Bernie Sanders.
Bernie is promoting pure socialist policy, not socialism democracy, but democratic socialism.
There is a huge HUGE difference between the two. Know the difference. Know what you are supporting.
Democracy is hard work.
Everything worth fighting for is hard work.
Do the work.