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Related: About this forumBernie is Leftists’ Divinely Appointed “Hitman”
http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/01/17/bernie-is-leftists-divinely-appointed-hitman/The political left needs to wake up now. Love him or loathe him, Bernie Sanders has succeeded in doing something the left itself has never in recent memory accomplished: hes spearheading a potential political revolution.
How so? ask skeptical leftists. Because his recent breakthrough successeshis pivotal MoveOn endorsement swiftly followed by his seizing the lead in the Iowa and New Hampshire pollshave created an urgent crisis of legitimacy for todays Democratic Party. As every student of revolution knows, creating such an acute legitimacy crisis is the first step toward toppling, or at least radically transforming, any political institution. And the Democratic Party is the first political institution budding U.S. revolutionaries need to topple or transform. For, as the left has always astutely griped, it is by far the chief diverter of revolutionary energythe place where promising political revolutions go to die. But this political revolution, launched wittingly or unwittingly by comparatively tame house socialist Bernie, could be the death knell for the Democratic Party as we know it. And thats a very good thing.
But the toppling or transformation of todays Democratic Party wont fall in leftists laps. Bernie has in effect accomplished Phase 1 of any political revolution: delegitimizing a lynchpin political institutionone that holds together the whole shaky edifice of a corrupt social order. I would argue that in siphoning off legitimate revolutionary energycoddling hopes it means to kill, exactly as the left describesthe Democratic Party has played that counterrevolutionary role in our political system. But my chief bone to pick with fellow leftists is that theyve hated Democrats not wisely but too well: in mustering all their surplus outrage for a richly deserving target, theyve forgotten the useful mob cliché that revenge is a dish best served cold. Only by taking that cliché to heart can leftists even begin to accomplish Phase 2.
If leftists play it smart, Bernie could be our revolutionary hitman. Or even more precisely, he could be the picador who fatally weakens the Democrat bull so leftist matadors can move in for the kill. But before developing my follow-up bullfighting metaphor, let me first explain my logically preliminary mafia one.
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Bernie is Leftists’ Divinely Appointed “Hitman” (Original Post)
eridani
Jan 2016
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merrily
(45,251 posts)1. Great article, not such great comparisons.
Divinely-Appointed and Hitman? Picador? Metaphor up, Mr. Walker!
Donkees
(31,091 posts)2. "The political left needs to wake up now..."
But if I have anything personally to offer as a political analyst, its precisely the insight of one belatedly awakened
It does sound as if the writer recently discovered alarm clocks