I agree that Bernie is too interventionist on foreign policy. But I think it’s silly to suggest that he wouldn’t enact real change domestically.
“They knew they’d have no trouble controlling one old man who’s been in the system for years”; um so that’s why corporate media silenced and smeared him relentlessly? Nah. Corporate America was actually afraid of Bernie; it’s Trump they weren’t afraid of. Ending corporate donations to politicians, raising taxes on the highest income brackets, closing offshore tax loopholes, tightening Wall St regulation are all real policies for which Bernie been campaigning for three decades. If they weren’t afraid of him, why did they literally rig the primary to defeat him?
“The ruling class would have continued shutting down all movement toward universal healthcare, a living wage and income equality because their rule depends upon it.” No shit. I don’t see how that applies to Sanders in particular; this will be true no matter who you elect, no matter how radical they are. Elect Jill Stein and the ruling class will still try to shut down all movement.
“Keep attacking their lies as loudly and aggressively as possible and start waking mainstream America up to who the real enemy is.” Right, which is exactly what Bernie was doing and why he became so popular. I understand criticising Bernie’s complicity with interventionism, but suggesting that he “wouldn’t have been much better” is counter-productive. He is the most prominent public figure CALLING for a political revolution and an end to corporate oligarchy.
According to that logic, Jill Stein “wouldn’t be much better” than Bernie because although she’s less interventionist, she would still be “politically impotent to enact real change” due to “the oligarchy’s willful sabotage of any movement toward economic justice”. No dude, that’s a defeatist position.
It absolutely DOES matter who is president is because the only way to transform America away from a corporatist oligarchy is if we elect politicians who are passionate about ending the corporatist oligarchy. Both Bernie and Jill undeniably fit this profile.