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Yes, we SHOULD blame Bernie
How quickly things move! Around the time I sent out the preceding post, a politically-motivated madman named James Hodgkinson opens fire on congressmen in a public park, severely wounding Republican Congressman Steve Scalise along with four others before being shot to death himself. In normal times, such an event would dominate the news cycle for a week or more. Yet before day's end, many people had switched their attention to the news that Mueller was investigating Trump for obstruction of justice and -- oh, this should be good -- shady finances.From the standpoint of hundred-years-hence history, the latter development will no doubt be considered the more significant, but let us not be too quick to ignore the atrocity in that Virginia park. When the world learned that Hodgkinson was a die-hard Bernie-or-buster who hated Trump and apparently hated Clinton as much or more, the reactions were predictable:
1. Moderate television pundits decried the partisan acrimony which has divided this country the way the Dreyfus affair once divided France.
3. As always happens after a massacre, the right is pretending that such acts are always perpetrated by liberals. You may recall that the right pretended that James Holmes, the "Dark Knight" killer, was somehow connected to the Occupy Wall Street movement. (He wasn't.)
4. Since the shooter was an anti-Trumper, much of the news coverage refused to differentiate between the BernieBots and people who support the Democratic Party. The two entities are not the same.
5. Bernie Sanders offered a pro-forma denunciation of violence. Most of the left has accepted this statement at face value. Most of the left would be appalled by the suggestion that Bernie Sanders bears personal responsibility for this outrage.
I think he does.
As most of you know, I offered Sanders positive coverage when he began his campaign. (I was also quite disenchanted with Hillary.) Although I still support many of the things that the BernieBots claim to stand for, I turned against the Sanders movement when I saw that it had degenerated into the worst kind of political cult. The followers of that cult became the mirror image of the Trumpers: Intolerant, rabid, unthinking, deceptive, mendacious and simply vile.
It was clear to me that Sanders' purpose was not to win the election (he would have lost all 50 states, including Vermont) or even the nomination. Wittingly or otherwise, he was part of a classic Roger Stone-ian conspiracy to split the party -- to drive the Demcorats so far to the right that the party would have no appeal to purple states or purple counties. Some of his loudest, most obnoxious supporters on YouTube became Trump supporters -- see, for example, Cassandra Fairbanks, as shifty as she is curvy. Russia supported Bernie, just as it supported Trump. After laudably stating that "nobody cares" about the pseudo-scandal involving Hillary's emails, Sanders began to spread the Big Lie as viciously as any Republican.
Sanders showed his true colors when he hired Tad Devine -- a stenchy operative previously best known for his work on behalf of a Putin-linked politician who had literally poisoned his opponent. Devine also worked for Ehud Barak and Monsanto. (Imagine the outcry if Hillary had hired such a creature!) Bernie's refusal to release his taxes was every bit as suspect as Trump's refusal to release his tax information. The BernieBot troll army inundated left-wing sites with smears and slanders against Hillary Clinton and all other perceived enemies. The Bots obtained Hillary's voter data in an underhanded fashion, no doubt with the aid of Russia. The Michigan primary vote was transparently fraudulent. The FEC accused the Bernie Sanders campaign of financial impropriety. Sanders personally benefited from this corruption:
Throughout the Democratic primary, the Sanders campaign was cited for FEC violations on three separate occasions including a mysterious $10 million donation from a single address in Washington, DC. Despite consistent calls for financial transparency on the campaign trail, the Sanders campaign was exceedingly secretive when it came to its own finances. After twice filing for extensions from the FEC, the Sanders campaign ultimately decided to forgo its final financial disclosure statement in June citing the fact that campaign was no longer active. This decision was accompanied by the news that Sanders himself had purchased a $575,000 home in August, much to the dismay of his loyal followers. The home would be the third residence for Sanders, someone who railed against a system that increasingly favored the millionaires and billionaires of our country.Bernie's eventual pro-forma endorsement of Hillary was simply a tactic by which he could continue to foist his despicable cult of personality on a party that desperately needs to appeal to moderates in order to win back the House in 2018. If not for Bernie, a Democratic victory in 2018 would seem quite possible, perhaps likely. The Bernie Factor makes such an outcome nearly impossible.
Yet these financial gains for both Devine and Sanders would never have been possible had it not been for the millions of campaign contributions that came their way. And the only way to get campaign contributions is to convince your supporters you might actually have a chance to win. Luckily for Devine and Sanders, they had some foreign friends who were willing to step in. As reported by Rachel Maddow late on Tuesday, there existed an army of Russian bots who were weaponized to influence our election. Many of them took to various social media sites to discredit and disrupt Hillary Clinton's campaign and thus, energize potential Bernie Sanders supporters. Knowing that Clinton had been a target of right-wing media smears for a quarter-century, all the bots had to do was plant this seed to potential Sanders supporters, many of whom had no experience in politics, to get them onboard with the Sanders campaign. By doing this, Sanders and Devine were able to successfully pocket millions of dollars all while pretending to be champions of the common man.
What I find hardest to forgive is the fact that Bernie Sanders initiated a political cult. His followers are fanatics of the most abominable sort. Just as Bernie Sanders himself is personally disliked in DC, the BernieBullies became loathed by Democrats, by moderates, by anyone who felt repulsed by the sect.
At no point has Bernie Sanders behaved like a statesman. He does not advocate moderation or concession; instead, he keeps goading his cultists into frenzied behavior.
During the campaign, Nevada campaign chair Roberta Lange committed the "sin" of not allowing the Bernie cultists to break the agreed-upon rules. They wanted to rig the system; she would not allow it. As a result, Bernie's army of fanatics barraged her with messages like these:
Lange's voicemail included actual death threats. Berniebots sent her images of guillotines and other implements of death. What they inflicted upon her was nothing less than terrorism.
After the BernieBros lapsed into violence in Vegas, Sanders refused to apologize to Lange. The man was a complete coward who refused to acknowledge his own responsibility. He has never offered even the slightest criticism of his followers, no matter how badly they behaved. Displaying a positively Trumpian aversion to self-doubt and self-criticism, he kept doing everything he could to increase the fever. His followers were -- and are -- so warped by anti-Clinton, anti-Demcratic propaganda that they ceased to be recognizably human.
I doubt that Roberta Lange was even slightly surprised to learn that yesterday's shootings in Virginia were the work of a BernieBro.
Bernie Sanders created James Hodgkinson. Bernie Sanders is every bit as responsible as Hodgkinson is for the bullets that were fired on that day.
Suppose someone living down the street were to let a tiger loose in your neighborhood. If the tiger kills someone in your family, who do you blame? You can't blame the animal: It was simply acting according to its nature. You blame the fool who created such a dangerous situation.
That's why I hold Bernie Sanders personally responsible the shooting of Representative Scalise and four others.
Not only that. I consider the late James Hodgkinson to be the victim of Bernie Sanders, for the same reason I consider Patricia Krenwinkle and Susan Atkins to be the victims of Charles Manson. The leader of a cult bears the ultimate responsibility.
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