Benard Sanders

https://www.blackagendareport.com/cognitive-dissonance-democratic-socialists-cults-die-slow-death wrote:With such an arsenal of damning facts at Sanders’ disposal (articles and Youtubes galore), which his campaign could have easily linked to on his campaign website— indeed which the campaign really had to do given the hostility of corporate media— Sanders instead chose not to expose his “good friend” Joe Biden. It was Sanders’ imperative, not the corporate media’s, to take Biden out. Sanders’ ongoing decision to put his friendship with Biden above his own responsibility to expose a true enemy of the working-class reveals not only Sanders’ utter stupidity as a political strategist (or his identification with being a loser and sheepdog) but more importantly his moral shortcomings as a so-called self-avowed socialist. What sort of a socialist does such a thing?

Why did Sanders (NOT his campaign team, which Sanders was at liberty to choose himself) run such a shamelessly inept campaign? Instead of recruiting socialists, Sanders surrounded himself with D.C. players like his huckster campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, and his foreign policy advisor, imperialist jackass Matt Duss. (AOC has demonstrated a similar phenomenon in a makeover of her staff, bringing on recycled hacks who previously worked for political menaces to society like Kamala Harris and Robert O’Rourke.)

DSA/Jacobin & company, as unabashed Sandernistas with a considerable platform, should have been providing ongoing and vocal criticism of the contradictions of Sanders’ campaign—not just providing reasons why other candidates were problematic, or why the corporate media was being the corporate media. This was a collective cognitive failing on par with that of Joe Biden himself. One can find a more honest Left critique of Sanders and other “progressives” on the Jimmy Dore Show, which began as a comedy podcast and now offers some of the more scathing critiques of capitalism served to a popular audience. BAR contributing editor Danny Haiphong was recently featured for a full half hour.