“Any attempts to keep the American people quiet - with the threat that if they dare criticize the Democratic Party establishment, they will be labeled hostile foreign agents - are unacceptable and disgraceful.”
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This new McCarthyism must be renounced by every presidential candidate, otherwise we must conclude they lack the foresight and integrity required to lead our country.
It is now clear that the mainstream corporate media and the warmongering political establishment are seeking to do two things:
1: Create enough suspicion around Sanders, by falsely tarnishing him as a puppet of Russia, that he loses the election.
1: Create enough suspicion around Sanders, by falsely tarnishing him as a puppet of Russia, that he loses the election.
2: Or, if Bernie wins the Democratic nomination, force him to engage in inflammatory anti-Russia rhetoric and perpetuate the New Cold War and nuclear arms race, which are existential threats to our country and the world.
That strategy worked very well with Trump.
That strategy worked very well with Trump.
Trump has spent his entire presidency trying to "prove" to the media that he is not Putin's puppet by carrying out extremely aggressive policies that have brought us closer to nuclear war with Russia than we have been in decades.
If Sanders is the Democratic nominee, the corporate media will do everything they can to turn the general election into a contest of who is going to be "tougher" on Russia.
This tactic is necessary to propagandize the American people into shelling over their hard-earned tax dollars to the Pentagon to fund the highly lucrative nuclear arms race the that military-industrial complex craves.
The question facing any potential Democratic nominee is this: Am I going to allow myself to be manipulated and forced into a corner by overreaching intelligence agencies and the corporate media
