Bernie Sanders and the black hole of the Brooklyn media left (Part 2)

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton continue discussing the end of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, and how the professional media left, largely based in Brooklyn, opportunistically capitalized on his movement to push a soft-imperialist branding of "democratic socialism" — and to advance their careers in the press. We also address media celebrity AOC, Jacobin Magazine, the DSA, and the scheme to divert angry politicized youth back into the thoroughly discredited, neoliberal Democratic Party.

PART 2 OF 2

(Recorded on April 11, 2020)

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0:00.0	This is part two of our discussion on the failure of the Bernie Sanders campaign.
0:09.4	And the first half of this, which you can find on YouTube or iTunes or any other podcasting
0:16.4	website, we discussed how Bernie Sanders as a candidate and how his campaign failed, refusing to challenge
0:24.1	the neoliberal Democratic Party structure as an actual party, not pushing back really against
0:30.5	the corporate media as it continued to stab him in the back at every single stage.
0:35.7	And, you know, we focused on Bernie Sanders as an individual.
0:39.9	Now in the second half, we're going to talk more about some of the forces in so-called leftist
0:46.2	media that coalesced around Bernie Sanders, the intense extreme opportunism of many of these
0:53.2	figures who just threw leftists in the global
0:56.2	south under the bus, basically endorsing regime change and coup attempts, and how ultimately
1:02.8	this is giving way to the creation of a kind of new left coming only out of some parts,
1:09.9	certainly not all of the Bernie Sanders movement,
1:12.1	but definitely a part coalescing around figures like Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez,
1:17.3	who just really rubber-stamp imperialism and who are welcoming even the new Cold War on China.
1:24.2	So this is part two of my discussion with Max Blumenthal. I'm Ben Norton, and this is
1:29.7	moderate rebels. I'll never apologize for the United States of America. Ever. I don't care what
1:35.4	the facts are. Why are we going to sit out and talk to these quote-unquote moderate rebels?
1:41.3	Who are the truly moderate rebels? The search for the moderate rebel. Do these moderate rebels exist?
1:50.2	Moderate rebels. You know, I think we should also pivot a bit and talk more about other people and not just Bernie himself because look you know no one's perfect Bernie I think did a lot of positive things but also had a lot of
2:06.4	weaknesses but there are so many people around Bernie who in the past five years since he first began
2:13.7	running in 2015 they have just proven themselves to be complete opportunists who were
2:20.7	trying to use this campaign to build a career and to build institutions in so-called left-wing
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