Bernie
Stabs Hillary in the Back, Demands Third Party Nominees be Able to
Debate
The
Progressive firebrand who depressed his fervent supporters by
endorsing Hillary Clinton as the lesser of two evils changed his tone
on Sunday blasting the Clinton Foundation and saying that the
American people deserve more options.
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September, 2014
Bernie
Sanders, a 74-year-old Democratic Socialist took America by storm
this spring with many believing until the last minute that he was
going to pull off the impossible to beat Hillary Clinton, the
Democratic Party establishment and the mainstream media, but
ultimately those hopes never materialized leaving the candidate’s
progressive "revolution" in shambles in its wake.
On the eve of the Democratic National
Convention, it was revealed in the WikiLeaks document dump that
Hillary’s campaign had teamed up improperly with the DNC and the
mainstream media to spin false narratives about the Vermont Senator’s
candidacy, but in the face of outrage by his most ardent supporters
and with a face filled with grief Sanders did what was unthinkable –
he endorsed Hillary.
The supposed candidate of the 99% joined arms
with the Clinton machine which embodies the pro-Wall Street,
corporate establishment despite differing opinions on international
trade, wages, worker protections, college affordability and certainly
foreign policy leaving many former "Berners" stumbling in a
daze for a candidate that they could call their own.
The rationale
provided by Bernie Sanders at the time is that America faced a binary
decision between Donald Trump, who he has decried as a hateful
demagogue, and Hillary Clinton with whom he had a number of
impassioned debates and fierce differences.
On Sunday, that tone changes as Bernie Sanders
appeared to turn against Hillary on NBC’s "Meet the Press"
calling on her to "cease all operations, all contact with the
Clinton Foundation" over perceptions that the former Secretary
of State provided access to donors turning the State Department into
a pay-to-play scheme.
He went one step further in the interview
despite having hitched his wagon to the Democratic Party for the
election cycle decrying the two-party system’s unrealistic 15-point
polling threshold that keeps the American people in the dark about
the multitude of other options for leadership besides the Democrats
and Republicans.
Sanders said that the bar must be lowered to provide
access to candidates who do not have the same access to the
mainstream media or the support of the overbearing two-party
political establishment.
Libertarian
candidate Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein agree
blasting the two-party media cartel as converse to ideas of democracy
and narrowing the debate between two parties that all too often are
the same.
"If you’re not in the presidential debate, there’s
no way you’re going to win the presidency, given that the first
presidential debate is estimated to garner more viewership than the
Super Bowl," explained Libertarian Gary Johnson who has
consistently polled near 10%.
His Green Party counterpart Jill Stein
has an even higher hill to climb registering at 2% to 4% nationally
in recent polls.
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