[rad-green] The 2020 Bernie Campaign Represents a Fight That Must Continue

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<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/11/dark-time-eye-begins-see-202=
0-bernie-campaign-represents-fight-must-continue>Common
Dreams          March 11, 2020'In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See': The
2020 Bernie Campaign Represents a Fight That Must ContinueCorporate media
and corporate Democrats want the Bernie 2020 campaign=E2=80=94and the grass=
roots
energy behind it=E2=80=94to melt away. That's not going to happen.by Norman=
 Solomon*

[image: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democratic Presidential Candidate,
speaks to thousands of supporters during a rally at the Boston Common on
Saturday, February 29, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Photo: Salwan Georges/The
Washington Post via Getty Images)]

*Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democratic Presidential Candidate, speaks to
thousands of supporters during a rally at the Boston Common on Saturday,
February 29, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post
via Getty Images)*

=E2=80=9CIn a dark time,=E2=80=9D poet Theodore Roethke wrote
<https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43347/in-a-dark-time>, =E2=80=9Cthe=
 eye
begins to see.=E2=80=9D

No matter who wins the Democratic presidential nomination, many millions of
people will refuse to unsee what has become all too clear. On the verge of
spring 2020, we can see what we=E2=80=99re up against:

=E2=80=A2A crowing media establishment, eager to relegate the Bernie Sanders
campaign to the political margins.

=E2=80=A2A gloating Democratic Party establishment, glad to rally around Po=
temkin
candidate Joe Biden and extol his carefully crafted fa=C3=A7ade.

=E2=80=A2Overall, interlocking systems based on greed and corporate power i=
nstead
of shared resources and genuine democracy.

On Tuesday night, there was no mistaking the smug joy of studio pundits and
Democratic Party operatives on networks like AT&T-owned *CNN* and
Comcast-owned *MSNBC*. Meanwhile, the *New York Times* rushed into print
yet another all-out attack piece masquerading as a =E2=80=9Cnews=E2=80=9D a=
rticle
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/politics/bernie-sanders-michigan-202=
0.html?action=3Dclick&module=3DSpotlight&pgtype=3DHomepage>
about
Sanders.

Dominant media have routinely slanted coverage to make Sanders look bad,
often bypassing context and skewing facts. It was just another day at the
office last week when the *Times* front-paged a flagrant smear
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/10/its-propaganda-all-righ=
t-against-bernie/>
of
Sanders as a supposed propaganda tool of the Soviet Union in the late
1980s. A former U.S. ambassador to Moscow quickly denounced
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/opinion/letters/bernie-sanders-soviet-u=
nion.html/>
the
story as a =E2=80=9Cdistortion of history
<https://eastwestaccord.com/ambassador-jack-matlock-letter-to-the-ny-times-=
regarding-bernie-sanders-trip-to-the-ussr/>
.=E2=80=9D

Such regular deceptions from a range of corporate media shouldn=E2=80=99t s=
urprise
us, but they should never cease to outrage us. The same is true of the ramp=
ant
corporate sleaziness
<https://readsludge.com/2020/02/24/top-dnc-committee-is-packed-with-corpora=
te-lobbyists/>
in
the upper reaches
<https://readsludge.com/2020/02/28/corporate-lobbyists-control-the-rules-at=
-the-dnc/>
of
the Democratic National Committee.

Corporate media and corporate Democrats want the Bernie 2020 campaign=E2=80=
=94and
the grassroots energy behind it=E2=80=94to melt away. That=E2=80=99s not go=
ing to happen.

Movements that have been propelling the Sanders campaign are here for the
long haul=E2=80=94as determined to keep fighting for social justice as top
corporate executives are determined to keep collecting huge paychecks. (And
that=E2=80=99s saying something.)

The chances of Bernie winning the nomination have sharply diminished, but
it=E2=80=99s still possible. And no matter what: movements for basic social=
 change
and democracy will vitally persist with long-term struggles to wrest power
out of the hands of oligarchs and their functionaries.

Candidates who rushed to endorse Biden after his big victory in South
Carolina=E2=80=94Michael Bloomberg, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O=
=E2=80=99Rourke,
Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker=E2=80=94each personify, in their own way, wh=
at=E2=80=99s so
corrosive about standard-issue Democratic Party leaders. Their backgrounds
and personalities vary widely, but they share a political space of
opportunism and ultra-coziness with corporate power. (Meanwhile, during the
crucial aftermath of her withdrawal from the race after Super Tuesday,
Elizabeth Warren shed new light
<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/05/profound-and-historic-questi=
on-elizabeth-warren-which-side-are-you>
on
her political character
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4_kbalunHkc&feature=3Dshare&fbclid=3DIwA=
R2o-Uyi-2QvrjRnE03Nm5MyZedrSuQ2dH6gvqVSmge8Bu-4Fz83yGoyzAA>
when
she decided not to endorse Sanders.)

The antidote to anti-democratic poisons has nothing to do with cynicism,
passivity or defeatism. The solutions will come from realism, activism and
ongoing insistence that a better world is possible=E2=80=94if we=E2=80=99re=
 willing to keep
fighting for it.

Norman Solomon <https://www.commondreams.org/author/norman-solomon> is
co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org
<http://rootsaction.org/>. His books include *"War Made Easy: How
Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047179001X?ie=3DUTF8&tag=3Dcommondreams-2=
0>"*
 and *"Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977825345?ie=3DUTF8&tag=3Dcommondreams-2=
0>."*
 He is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public
Accuracy.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default"><b><font face=3D"georgia, ser=
if"><a href=3D"https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/11/dark-time-eye-=
begins-see-2020-bernie-campaign-represents-fight-must-continue" target=3D"_=
blank">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/11/dark-time-eye-begins-s=
ee-2020-bernie-campaign-represents-fight-must-continue</a><br><br><font siz=
e=3D"4">Common Dreams=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 March 11, 2020</fon=
t><br><br><font size=3D"6">&#39;In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See&#39;:=
 The 2020 Bernie Campaign Represents a Fight That Must Continue</font><br><=
br><font size=3D"4">Corporate media and corporate Democrats want the Bernie=
 2020 campaign=E2=80=94and the grassroots energy behind it=E2=80=94to melt =
away. That&#39;s not going to happen.</font><br><br><font size=3D"4">by Nor=
man Solomon</font></font></b></div><div class=3D"gmail_default"><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font><div style=3D"font-size:17px;box-sizing:inhe=
rit"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><d=
iv style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, se=
rif"><img src=3D"https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd=
_large/public/views-article/bernie_sanders_46_million_0.jpg?itok=3DIyGeG53Q=
" width=3D"472" height=3D"247" alt=3D"Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democrati=
c Presidential Candidate, speaks to thousands of supporters during a rally =
at the Boston Common on Saturday, February 29, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Photo: =
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)" style=3D"box-sizing:i=
nherit;border:0px;margin-right:0px"></font></div></div></div></div><div sty=
le=3D"font-size:12px;box-sizing:inherit;background-image:initial;background=
-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;backgro=
und-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:5px 10px"><div style=3D"=
box-sizing:inherit"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><p style=3D"box-sizin=
g:inherit;margin:0px"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b st=
yle=3D"background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Democ=
ratic Presidential Candidate, speaks to thousands of supporters during a ra=
lly at the Boston Common on Saturday, February 29, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Pho=
to: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)</b></font></p></di=
v></div></div><div style=3D"font-size:17px;box-sizing:inherit"><div style=
=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><div style=3D"box=
-sizing:inherit"><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" fa=
ce=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=9CIn a dark time,=E2=80=9D poet Theodore Roeth=
ke=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43347/in-a-dark-t=
ime" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:no=
ne" target=3D"_blank">wrote</a>, =E2=80=9Cthe eye begins to see.=E2=80=9D</=
font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"ge=
orgia, serif">No matter who wins the Democratic presidential nomination, ma=
ny millions of people will refuse to unsee what has become all too clear. O=
n the verge of spring 2020, we can see what we=E2=80=99re up against:</font=
></p><blockquote style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><p style=3D"box-sizing:inheri=
t"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=A2A crowing media=
 establishment, eager to relegate the Bernie Sanders campaign to the politi=
cal margins.</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#0000=
00" face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=A2A gloating Democratic Party establishm=
ent, glad to rally around Potemkin candidate Joe Biden and extol his carefu=
lly crafted fa=C3=A7ade.</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font co=
lor=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=80=A2Overall, interlocking syst=
ems based on greed and corporate power instead of shared resources and genu=
ine democracy.</font></p></blockquote><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font=
 color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">On Tuesday night, there was no m=
istaking the smug joy of studio pundits and Democratic Party operatives on =
networks like AT&amp;T-owned=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">CNN</em>=
=C2=A0and Comcast-owned=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">MSNBC</em>. M=
eanwhile, the=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">New York Times</em>=C2=
=A0rushed into print yet another all-out attack piece=C2=A0<a href=3D"https=
://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/politics/bernie-sanders-michigan-2020.html=
?action=3Dclick&amp;module=3DSpotlight&amp;pgtype=3DHomepage" style=3D"box-=
sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_bla=
nk">masquerading as a =E2=80=9Cnews=E2=80=9D article</a>=C2=A0about Sanders=
.</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D=
"georgia, serif">Dominant media have routinely slanted coverage to make San=
ders look bad, often bypassing context and skewing facts. It was just anoth=
er day at the office last week when the=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:inheri=
t">Times</em>=C2=A0front-paged a=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.washingtonpost=
.com/opinions/2020/03/10/its-propaganda-all-right-against-bernie/" style=3D=
"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D=
"_blank">flagrant smear</a>=C2=A0of Sanders as a supposed propaganda tool o=
f the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. A former U.S. ambassador to Moscow qu=
ickly=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/opinion/letters/be=
rnie-sanders-soviet-union.html/" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px=
 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">denounced</a>=C2=A0the st=
ory as a =E2=80=9C<a href=3D"https://eastwestaccord.com/ambassador-jack-mat=
lock-letter-to-the-ny-times-regarding-bernie-sanders-trip-to-the-ussr/" sty=
le=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" targ=
et=3D"_blank">distortion of history</a>.=E2=80=9D</font></p><p style=3D"box=
-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Such regul=
ar deceptions from a range of corporate media shouldn=E2=80=99t surprise us=
, but they should never cease to outrage us. The same is true of the=C2=A0<=
a href=3D"https://readsludge.com/2020/02/24/top-dnc-committee-is-packed-wit=
h-corporate-lobbyists/" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text=
-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">rampant corporate sleaziness</a>=
=C2=A0in the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://readsludge.com/2020/02/28/corporate-lo=
bbyists-control-the-rules-at-the-dnc/" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;backgrou=
nd:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">upper reaches</a>=
=C2=A0of the Democratic National Committee.</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizin=
g:inherit"></p><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"></div><p style=3D"box-sizi=
ng:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Corporate media=
 and corporate Democrats want the Bernie 2020 campaign=E2=80=94and the gras=
sroots energy behind it=E2=80=94to melt away. That=E2=80=99s not going to h=
appen.</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" fa=
ce=3D"georgia, serif">Movements that have been propelling the Sanders campa=
ign are here for the long haul=E2=80=94as determined to keep fighting for s=
ocial justice as top corporate executives are determined to keep collecting=
 huge paychecks. (And that=E2=80=99s saying something.)</font></p><p style=
=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">The=
 chances of Bernie winning the nomination have sharply diminished, but it=
=E2=80=99s still possible. And no matter what: movements for basic social c=
hange and democracy will vitally persist with long-term struggles to wrest =
power out of the hands of oligarchs and their functionaries.</font></p><p s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"=
>Candidates who rushed to endorse Biden after his big victory in South Caro=
lina=E2=80=94Michael Bloomberg, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O=E2=80=
=99Rourke, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker=E2=80=94each personify, in their =
own way, what=E2=80=99s so corrosive about standard-issue Democratic Party =
leaders. Their backgrounds and personalities vary widely, but they share a =
political space of opportunism and ultra-coziness with corporate power. (Me=
anwhile, during the crucial aftermath of her withdrawal from the race after=
 Super Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.commondreams.o=
rg/views/2020/03/05/profound-and-historic-question-elizabeth-warren-which-s=
ide-are-you" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration=
-line:none" target=3D"_blank">shed new light</a>=C2=A0on her=C2=A0<a href=
=3D"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4_kbalunHkc&amp;feature=3Dshare&amp;f=
bclid=3DIwAR2o-Uyi-2QvrjRnE03Nm5MyZedrSuQ2dH6gvqVSmge8Bu-4Fz83yGoyzAA" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" targe=
t=3D"_blank">political character</a>=C2=A0when she decided not to endorse S=
anders.)</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" =
face=3D"georgia, serif">The antidote to anti-democratic poisons has nothing=
 to do with cynicism, passivity or defeatism. The solutions will come from =
realism, activism and ongoing insistence that a better world is possible=E2=
=80=94if we=E2=80=99re willing to keep fighting for it.</font></p><p style=
=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"color:=
rgb(0,0,0);font-size:0.9em;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700"><a href=3D"h=
ttps://www.commondreams.org/author/norman-solomon" style=3D"box-sizing:inhe=
rit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">Norman =
Solomon</a></span><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:0.9em">=C2=A0</=
span><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:0.9em">is co-founder and nat=
ional coordinator of=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"http://rootsaction.org/" style=
=3D"background:0px 0px;font-size:0.9em;box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-l=
ine:none" target=3D"_blank">RootsAction.org</a><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0=
,0);font-size:0.9em">.=C2=A0His books include=C2=A0</span><em style=3D"colo=
r:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:0.9em;box-sizing:inherit">&quot;<a href=3D"http://ww=
w.amazon.com/gp/product/047179001X?ie=3DUTF8&amp;tag=3Dcommondreams-20" sty=
le=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" targ=
et=3D"_blank">War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to=
 Death</a>&quot;</em><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:0.9em">=C2=
=A0and=C2=A0</span><em style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:0.9em;box-sizing=
:inherit">&quot;<a href=3D"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977825345?ie=
=3DUTF8&amp;tag=3Dcommondreams-20" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0=
px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">Made Love, Got War: Clo=
se Encounters with America&#39;s Warfare State</a>.&quot;</em><span style=
=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:0.9em">=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"color:rgb=
(0,0,0);font-size:0.9em">He is the founder and executive director of the In=
stitute for Public Accuracy.</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div=
></div>

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