THE WASHINGTON POST IMPLIES THAT BERNIE SANDERS’ DENUNCIATIONS OF THE DIRTY TRICKS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MACHINE IS COMPARABLE TO THE PETTY AND UNFOUNDED ACCUSATIONS AGAINST HIM

Today’s Washington Post published an article titled “Top Democrats Turn on each other after Iowa, complicating the party’s chances against Trump.” The article makes it seem as if what it alleges is a tit-for-tat between Hillary Clinton-Democratic Party leadership and Bernie Sanders is lessoning the Democrats’ chances in November. If you believe the article, Clinton’s accusations against Sanders is of the same weight as Sanders’ accusations against the Democratic Party machine for trying to block his candidacy in 2016 and 2020. In fact, there’s no comparison. Hillary Clinton’s ongoing gripe against Sanders is that he didn’t throw full support behind her candidacy, what the article says not “sufficiently rallying his base” in 2016. Sanders is accusing the Democratic Party machine of playing dirty and violating party norms in order to favor Clinton in 2016 and now favoring the candidacy of Michael Bloomberg. Is there any basis of comparison? Firstly, Clinton’s complaint is of no consequence because Sanders did endorse Clinton once she was the official party candidate and indeed campaigned and campaigned fairly actively for her. The fact that some of his followers (myself included) couldn’t get themselves to vote for Clinton says nothing about Sanders, but rather talks to the poor quality of her own campaign. Sanders, on the other hand, is accusing the Democratic party of manipulation, if not illegal interference, in the campaign on the side of a specific candidate, thus violating its duty to maintain impartiality. Indeed, the reporting of the Washington Post and that of the mainstream press in general is just one more piece of evidence that the establishment is doing whatever is necessary to block Sanders’ bid for the nomination.