The Myth Of The Moderate Democrat: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-02-20 at 22:30:22 )

The Myth Of The Moderate Democrat: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Hi my name is Snooty McCentrist. I reject the extremism of the far left and far right in favor of moderate, middle-of-the-road values: endless war, military expansionism, ecocide, plutocracy, crushing austerity, income and wealth inequality, police militarization, Orwellian surveillance, and steadily mounting authoritarianism.

Mainstream media pundits keep babbling about a strange cryptozoological organism known as "moderate Democrats", despite the fact that there is less evidence for the existence of such creatures than for leprechauns and the Loch Ness Monster.

There is no such thing as a moderate mainstream centrist. There is nothing moderate about an ideology of endless mass military slaughter abroad and ever-tightening authoritarianism and economic exploitation at home. These people are violent extremists. They are ISIS with nukes.

So-called "centrism" is called that not because it is the moderate position between two extremes, but because it has been forcibly made into the mainstream norm by propaganda.

There is nothing moderate about it. If we could see it with fresh, healthy eyes, we would scream in horror.

"Moderate Democrats" are moderate in the same way the "moderate rebels" in Syria are moderate.

In a sane world we would regard people who promote endless war with the same revulsion as child rapists and serial killers.

You may be certain that there are United States liberals who sincerely hate Donald Trump, but who subconsciously do not want him to lose because they have got a lot invested in his presidency now; drama addiction, social media following, etc. This may explain some of the support for weak candidates.

We have all known people who court drama in their lives. They do this because drama is addictive; it causes the brain to secrete endorphins and dopamine. The socially sanctioned drama of United States Trump-centric political environment would provide ample fodder for this.

Egotism can create identity structures out of pretty much anything; there would be people by now who simply do not know who they are without Donald Trump, because anti-Trumpism has become such a part of their identity. The idea of losing Donald Trump would look like a kind of death to them.

So as much as they hate Donald Trump, they do not really want him to lose, deep down. They are comfortable in this post-2016 environment where they get to wake up and scream about Donald Trumps latest tweet or whatever. They secretly enjoy it. There would be whole online communities of such people.

These people would gravitate toward candidates like Mr. Buttigieg and Mr. Bloomberg, who if they are honest they know can not beat Donald Trump. They would cheer for them every step of the way, they would revel in the drama, and when they lose they would revel in that too. And a significant part of themselves would enjoy it.

A large part of what passes for social media activism is really just egoic bullshit, and this would be especially true of the "Resistance". Whole social media networks have been built basically around people diddling each others egos about Donald Trump. Many would not want to lose that.

"A socialist can not beat Donald Trump. We need a right-winger to compete."
Biden joins race
"He will need lots of funding to win though. We need a billionaire right-winger like Donald Trump."
Steyer joins race
"He is not racist enough."
Bloomberg joins race
"Okay but he will need a spray tan."

Someone on my site said they are a fan of mine and of Mike Bloomberg. How is that even possible?

All I ever do is bash billionaires, MSM propagandists, oligarchs, authoritarians, establishment guardians and neocon war whores.. and Mike Bloomberg is all of these things.

Bloomberg vs Trump would mean we had lost and signal the start of centuries of locked-down dystopia where leadership is handed from billionaire to trillionaire as ceremonially as any monarchy and the rest of us are shipped off to giant rotating Amazon warehouses to work in space.

Bloomberg and Trump are so personally and ideologically similar that the only thing for them to argue about is height and bitchy remarks made behind their backs by other plutocrats.

Just a thought but if you have exactly one (1) Democratic candidate whose extensive history of right-wing authoritarianism has even fairly mainstream Democrats sincerely debating whether he would be better than Donald Trump, maybe that one candidate is not the guy to support at the very beginning of a primary race.

Focus not just on Mike Bloomberg, but on what his campaign says about the entire United States political system.

It has always been this easy to buy up endorsements and narrative control, and plutocrats have always been doing that this entire time.

They just normally stay hidden in the background. If the populist hive mind dug into the connections and manipulations of other plutocrats like they are digging into Mike Bloombergs, they would find just as much dirt.

Anyone who cheers for any billionaire to win anything is a pathetic bootlicking loser.

Billionaires are worthless, parasitical, untalented, unnecessary middlemen.

"Philanthropy" is just another billionaire narrative control tool, same as buying media outlets and funding think tanks. Build a library named after yourself and you have got this "philanthropist" label that pundits use so that people call you that instead of "parasitic sociopath".

If wealth had anything to do with hard work, single moms would be the billionaires.

This primary race should have been an argument over who gets to breathe on the unpopular reality TV star president to knock him down, not this stressful shit show of uncertainty over who can stop the Donald Trump juggernaut.

Awful Democratic leadership since 2016 is to blame for this.

Every time Bernie Sanders makes stupid hawkish comments about Russia, Venezuela, Iran etc, he loses votes to Tulsi Gabbard.

Maybe instead of demanding that Ms Gabbard to drop out, Bernie Sanders supporters should demand that he stop making these comments.

They keep trying to spin Bernie Sanders as this freaky radical fringe madman, but he is basically just campaigning as the real version of Barack Obama. The version of Obama that actually intends to govern as he campaigned.

So far the best anti-Sanders smears they have been able to come up with are:
- He is unelectable (abandoned after polls proved otherwise)
- He refuses to release medical information he has already released
- He is secretly a communist
- A Bernie Bro said a bad word on the internet

Pete Buttigiegs whole schtick is "I am inclusive because I support policies that work for everyone: ordinary people AND the plutocracy!" Anyone who tells you this is lying, and anyone who tells you you do not have to choose between revolution and the status quo is telling you to choose the status quo.

Things that are more real than Pete Buttigieg:
- Milli Vanilli
- aspartame
- astroturf
- boobs in LA
- smiles at a Marthas Vineyard cocktail party
- the Gulf of Tonkin incident
- Brian Williams helicopter crash
- Hillary landing under sniper fire
- Joy Reids time travelling hackers
- Trumps tan
- Epsteins suicide

My American husband has been here in Australia for years, and he still to this day keeps marvelling at how much better our very normal healthcare system is. The only thing keeping Americans from supporting universal healthcare is their never having experienced a real healthcare system.

The problem with threatening the DNC with a Donald Trump re-election if they install a right-wing candidate is that Democratic Party elites do not care if Donald Trump gets re-elected; he supports all their favorite agendas and they keep their jobs regardless. It is not a real threat to them. Does not mean you should kiss the ring and do as you are told; it just means you need better threats.

It has been cute watching Donald Trump supporters try to hate Bernie Sanders.

You can tell they want to, but their heart is not in it, probably because they know he pisses off a lot of the same people they hate. So they just mumble some easily refuted gibberish involving Bernie Sanders being a commie.

It is like the exact opposite of a guy trying to get an erection for a woman he thinks he should be attracted to, but just can not get into it.

Donald Trump supporters are completely unequipped for a Sanders vs Trump election.

All their anti-Bernie stuff right now is hammers and sickles and gulags and cartoonish red baiting schtick.

They would get hardcore out-memed by Berners in the general; they really have no idea what they are looking at, and, more importantly, they are completely humorless about it.

Who wins a meme war?

The energized revolutionaries joking and having fun, or the stuffy finger-waggers regurgitating 1950s HUAC talking points?

Hi my name is Snooty McCentrist. I am sorry to inform Bernie supporters that because you did not ask us to stop sabotaging his campaign with sufficient politeness, his election has been permanently cancelled.

Establishment narrative managers are not crying about Bernies online supporters because they are mean, but because they are effective.

It is the same reason they cry about RT and indie media; they know narrative control is power, and Berners can collectively influence narratives.

Narrative managers have settled on "Bernies online brown shirts" as the United States version of the "Labour antisemitism crisis", at least for now.

Clintonite propagandist David Brock actually got the ball rolling on this more than a year ago. They like this one because, like the Corbyn antisemitism smear campaign, it is a self-reinforcing narrative.

Just as denying the existence of a Labour antisemitism epidemic made you an antisemite, objections to the "angry Bernie Bros" smear can be spun as proof that it is true.

The blue-checkmarked crybully commentariat are so insanely authoritarian that they openly and unabashedly claim that a presidential candidate ought to have iron-fisted control over the social media comments of every single one of his supporters.

Saying "Twitter is not real life" is like saying "Cable news is not real life"-of course both statements are true, but both forms of media help shape the narratives which affect real life.

The difference is that grassroots populist movements can shape those narratives via Twitter.

centrists: you are wrong and we are right
progressives: no, you are wrong and we are right
centrists: OMG YOU ARE SO DIVISIVE

These Clintonite candidates keep babbling about "unity" as though Bernie Sanders has been out there all "Yeeehaw! F-ck everyone to the right of Ajamu Baraka, nobody needs you bitches!"

Obviously all Democratic candidates want Dems to unify; the debate is which direction to head when they do.

I have not written about your pet issue because there are only so many hours in a day and writing essays takes up lots of them.

I focus my energy on what I see as the weakest gaps in the empires armor where I think I can do the most damage.

I make those assessments myself. If there is something you want written, then write it. I do not have any tools you do not have; I have got a WordPress, a Twitter and Facebook, and a Medium account. I have no platform. I have no connections. I just write things my intuition tells me will float on the zeitgeist.

We are looking at a life-or-death existential struggle here, both for the establishment and for the people. The difference is establishment lackeys stand to lose status and cocktail party invites, while the people stand to lose their lives.

Who do you reckon has more to fight for?

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