Let’s look at the last 6 months and investigate how the DNC and Media has been approaching Bernie Sanders. At the beginning he was little threat to the front runner Hillary. This meant little to no press coverage of anyone else from the Democratic side. This is not all that shocking when looking at those original numbers showing no one had a chance. Slowly though, Bernie Sanders has built steam for his candidacy. So high in fact, that he did just tie Hillary in Iowa. He did all of this without getting the coverage that Hillary gets. It at one point late last year was as high as 14 times more coverage of Hillary over Bernie. This is a tremendous amount of time that is spent on the person who already has 20+ years of name recognition. She needs none of that media time to be the favorite from the party. Even with Bernie rising in the polls they don’t acknowledge him to any real extent on cable media coverage.
Also clear evidence by cable media to keep down Bernie Sanders, and his ability to become the Democratic candidate, is the last weeks Iowa Town Hall meeting CNN did with the Democratic candidates. Go back and watch the event and see how they attack Bernie Sanders. They go hard after him and his Socialism. They attack him about wanting to “raise taxes.” Now I will say that I do not mind hard questions pushing people to defend their policies and give real answers. The problem was after getting attacked with words like “Punish the successful” and “Socialist” and “raise taxes”, you go to Hillary’s questions and your jaw will hit the floor. Her first question was essentially, “you got this endorsement, and you got that endorsement, even Obama called you Wicked Smart and endorses you, how are you so great?” Obviously I am paraphrasing but listen to the question and understand that is the most glowing “question” ever. They never attacked her with anything that would give negative press. It was obvious they wanted Bernie Sanders to say 1 phrase to “get him.” They needed him to say he would raise taxes. They got their wish, because yes he will, and then of course after further explanation you should realize that he replaces ALL private healthcare cost for a MUCH smaller tax and families potentially save thousands of dollars a year for middle and lower classes. That doesn’t matter to the media though. They got what they wanted and all the major news organizations had headlines of “Bernie Sanders Will Raise Taxes.” This was on all major sites. They may have tried vaguely inside the articles to explain better, but they know MOST people only read headlines. They want to bury Bernie Sanders.
Let’s look at how the DNC has been trying to also give the candidacy to Hillary. The last 3 Debates went as follows Saturday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night. Weekends are known for 1 thing when it comes to politics. It means they want to bury and/or ignore something. They are the lowest viewed times on TV. They did it on weekends to minimize the exposure of Bernie Sanders. They want to have the people be uninformed. They know the uninformed will go with gut feelings, and between the headlines having “Bernie will raise taxes” and people know the Clinton name will drive them to vote Hillary.
I don’t think that Bernie is everyone’s perfect candidate. I don’t think they have to vote for him. But it seems so obvious to me that the Establishment, both media and DNC, and Hillary herself, want him to go unnoticed. They don’t want a real shake up of politics as we know them. They have been profiting for decades on this stuff. Also look at the moderator of the Town Hall event, and realize that Bernie does want to raise taxes on the rich, the moderator and ALL of the media members and executives at CNN would fall into that category. Then also consider that the money in politics is used for advertisements and then it is obvious why TV media companies don’t want Bernie to stop that. Those MILLIONS of dollars given to politicians are then spent on TV ads. It all comes to light that Bernie is a threat to the profits they have been reaping. It seems too convenient that they seem to be doing everything possible to minimize his publicity and exposure to ensure Hillary is the candidate.
Hillary is a very smart and tough woman. I do not have any fears of her being president. What I do want though, is a REAL change to start taking our country back from the extremely wealthy. She won’t fix that problem. I watched multiple interviews with her supporters and they all essentially agreed with Bernie’s policies, but supported Hillary because, she is more “realistic” in their terms. What they really mean is that she will not really push the envelope. She won’t push the boundaries and start real change. There will be NO shake up with her.
I acknowledge that the road will continue to be tough for Bernie Sanders and a fight I imagine might be too tough to win. The biggest complaint I have about all of this is the fact that people are not actually making informed decisions. Lots of the time it is by their own lack of trying. But the media and DNC should be encouraging real knowledge and exposing all of the candidates to get what PEOPLE actually want. They ARE AMERICA, the corporations take all the credit and control us now, but it doesn’t have to be. We the normal people are the cogs that make the machine work. We must stand together. #MN4Bernie
Let’s look at how the DNC has been trying to also give the candidacy to Hillary. The last 3 Debates went as follows Saturday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night. Weekends are known for 1 thing when it comes to politics. It means they want to bury and/or ignore something. They are the lowest viewed times on TV. They did it on weekends to minimize the exposure of Bernie Sanders. They want to have the people be uninformed. They know the uninformed will go with gut feelings, and between the headlines having “Bernie will raise taxes” and people know the Clinton name will drive them to vote Hillary.
I don’t think that Bernie is everyone’s perfect candidate. I don’t think they have to vote for him. But it seems so obvious to me that the Establishment, both media and DNC, and Hillary herself, want him to go unnoticed. They don’t want a real shake up of politics as we know them. They have been profiting for decades on this stuff. Also look at the moderator of the Town Hall event, and realize that Bernie does want to raise taxes on the rich, the moderator and ALL of the media members and executives at CNN would fall into that category. Then also consider that the money in politics is used for advertisements and then it is obvious why TV media companies don’t want Bernie to stop that. Those MILLIONS of dollars given to politicians are then spent on TV ads. It all comes to light that Bernie is a threat to the profits they have been reaping. It seems too convenient that they seem to be doing everything possible to minimize his publicity and exposure to ensure Hillary is the candidate.
Hillary is a very smart and tough woman. I do not have any fears of her being president. What I do want though, is a REAL change to start taking our country back from the extremely wealthy. She won’t fix that problem. I watched multiple interviews with her supporters and they all essentially agreed with Bernie’s policies, but supported Hillary because, she is more “realistic” in their terms. What they really mean is that she will not really push the envelope. She won’t push the boundaries and start real change. There will be NO shake up with her.
I acknowledge that the road will continue to be tough for Bernie Sanders and a fight I imagine might be too tough to win. The biggest complaint I have about all of this is the fact that people are not actually making informed decisions. Lots of the time it is by their own lack of trying. But the media and DNC should be encouraging real knowledge and exposing all of the candidates to get what PEOPLE actually want. They ARE AMERICA, the corporations take all the credit and control us now, but it doesn’t have to be. We the normal people are the cogs that make the machine work. We must stand together. #MN4Bernie