Sanders the Whistleblower Battles Status Quo, Demagoguery & Extremism

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/03/20/sanders-whistleblower-battles-status-quo-demagoguery-extremism/

Must every historic whistleblower speaking truth to power suffer indictment, exile, or martyrdom? Not Bernie Sanders, the era’s most prominent progressive, whose meteoric consciousness- raising challenges Hillary’s status quo, a celebrity TV violence-inciter, and looming Cruz-Rubio extremism. Whether he wins or not, Sanders’ truth-telling has already won the Democratic Party “message wars,” considerably rebranding this party’s language and convention agenda.

As a legitimate, unassailable whistleblower, Sanders the reformer stands alone on the national stage, pushing positive, systemic change for huge majorities, decency for the middle and working classes, even restoration of American co-operative, collective, democratic values. Contrast Trump’s contrary mode as the con artist committed to anti-education, to distortions that grievously dumb down fearful audiences with less schooling and less political savvy. Triggering a needed, generation-long revolution, Sanders is kickstarting a mass insurgency against the unholy conspiracy of bad government in bed with predatory capitalism.

Like Snowden and Manning, Sanders the whistleblower doggedly exposes to a large audience ugly truths that power elites want hidden away forever. Anything but a single-issue candidate, Sanders exposes multiple abuses: 1) inequality of assets, income, taxation and opportunity (economic injustice), 2) the plunder of the working and middle class via outsourcing and criminal banking, and 3) direct linkages between irresponsible industrialism (mining, drilling, energy, unsustainable manufacturing and consumption) with looming climate change. Only an independent whistleblower like Sanders would unapologetically take on the world’s most powerful, best-funded, immoral enterprise: concentrated oligarchy owning more than half of all the world’s material goods.

[monicaangela]

1. Excellent article!

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

2. "Sanders is kick starting a mass insurgency against the unholy conspiracy

of bad government in bed with predatory capitalism." Excellent article.