Bernie Sanders' Political Revolution of his Supporters

A good percentage of those that support Bernie Sanders are people who claim to be antiwar, or at least anti-bad war. Those that are anti-bad war are obviously confused by the propaganda and social engineering wrought on we serfs by our ruling class, because there are no good wars. Many of the Sanders supporters that claim to be antiwar also vow to not vote for Hillary Clinton if she becomes the Democratic party nominee largely because of her warmonger imperialist views, although her oligarchy and Wall Street ties come a close second.

Most of those that claim to be "anti-bad war" are among the partisan democrats that continue to approve of Obama's job performance. Democrats have approved of Obama's job performance consistently throughout his nearly seven years to the tune of 79%. There's no denying that most of Sanders supporters are current democrats and by inference most not only support Bernie Sanders, who admires Hillary Clinton, but they approve of Obama's job performance.

That's a problem for Bernie Sanders and his supposed "political revolution". These are the same people that Obama told, "make me do it".   
   

It's the same fucking thing with Sanders.  He keeps talking about his supporters starting some kind of "political revolution", which in effect means "more and better democrats".   I don't see how it means anything different than that. Sanders is about beating the republicans even if it means endorsing Hillary "The War Criminal" Clinton should he be defeated in the primary election.  He's stated he needs the people behind him and the party to be able to enact legislation against republican obstruction. I haven't seen his supporters explain what this political revolution would entail other than that, and it's the exact same thing Obama proposed when he was running his "Hallelujah Jesus" campaign in 2007/2008. 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/10/1430457/-Want-to-send-some-Progressives-to-Congress-to-help-President-Bernie-Sanders-in-2017

Many of the Sanders supporters that claim to be antiwar but don't approve of Obama's job performance, i.e., they're not among the 79% that approve, know what Obama said and promised when he campaigned not only here but around the world in 2007/8.  They know how he disappointed and became literally a third (and fourth) "Bush" term.  They know how he promised "Hope" and fighting against the establishment and asked for a people's or political movement to back him up, like the above video shows.   But they're convinced that Sanders is different because of what he's saying, the same things basically, and because he's supposedly backed it up in his fifty years of political involvement. Well ya, people were convinced Obama was different too.  Many still are.

In other words, they're getting fooled again but they don't believe that. 

Now there are a few ways to look at that. 

First, they never made Obama do it.  So are we to believe that should Sanders get elected these largely the same people that initially supported Obama combined with the larger majority of people who still support Obama, WILL provide the necessary activism to "help Bernie do it"?  What is the difference between then and now?  Most of these people supporting Sanders are not going to push him toward anti-imperialism because they are not anti-imperialists.  Most of them don't even recognize the U.S. as an imperialist nation, they think the U.S. is acting as the global policeman or arbiter of humanitarian affairs.  Most of these people don't believe Obama has waged illegal wars and is a war criminal, nor do they believe Hillary Clinton has violated international laws of war. 

Secondly, it's highly questionable that Sanders or any Democratic president is going to be able to push through anything resembling progressive legislation under the current oligarchy controlled political system and especially with the Republicans holding a majority in the House and Senate.  It's not going to happen.  It's basically been PROVEN beyond a reasonable doubt that the Democratic party is a tool of and controlled by the oligarchy.  So what does that mean?  Simple, this election of campaign promises is just pie in the sky, a waste of time.   The only way it can be otherwise for Democrats is the hope that Sanders or Clinton can play the role of the Dutch boy with his finger in the dike.

The lesser evil thing, which is getting very fucking tiring, especially since we keep going backwards anyway.  The dike is only going to hold for so long before we need something more than fingers.  Like now. 

Thirdly, Sanders really isn't different, particularly when it comes to foreign affairs and policies.  It's been said again and again that Sanders supports the same false narratives (bald fucking lies) that the rest of the imperialists/neocons tell the public.  Even his vote against the Iraq war did not dispute the false narratives regarding Iraq and weapons of mass destructions and Saddam Hussein.  The rest of his voting record clearly indicates support for the military industrial complex, U.S. imperialism and Israeli Zionism. 

Somehow even his supporters who claim to be antiwar just don't get it, even when they've been told.  They simply won't believe it, and that ladies and gentlemen is the same exact fucking thing we saw with the Nobel Peace Prize winner turned war criminal Barack Hussein Obama.  They rely solely on his vote against the Iraq war and this general statement:

“War should be in my view, the last resort of a great nation.” Bernie Sanders

"Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs." Bernie Sanders

That's the same bullshit Obama was saying in 2007/2008 until he changed during the general to appease the imperialist ruling class.  And his supporters have also relied on his stated opposition to the Iraq war. 

 http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/08/mccain-attacks-obama-on-military-spending/

This is a typical sentiment by one of the more vocal Sanders cheerleaders on the ultra partisan Democratic party blog Daily Kos:

 "We are a profoundly sick society and we'll never be anything better if we don't seize this rare opportunity to turn this battleship around. We need to bring the Pentagon (where trillions of dollars have simply gone missing) to heel and quit wasting our national treasure on hurting and killing people on a massive scale."

Why not just give him the Nobel Peace Prize?  You know, like Obama.  I've seen some say that when the debates start that's when their Bernie will become all antiwar and stuff.  Talk about delusional. 

(And a note about that "trillions missing" thing.  That's not what it is. The Pentagon stopped conducting audits which meant they couldn't verify where all the money went.  It didn't go missing, it was spent.  They just don't know exactly on what.)

How many times over the Obama years has it been said and written that the antiwar movement died because a Democrat was President?  That would certainly continue if Sanders is elected.  If it's Clinton, it would be a little different because she's a known war criminal/warmonger that a good percentage of current Democrats will not support when she gets her war on.  But the same thing would happen if Sanders became President even when he continued the Empire's march to Kingdom of the Universe.

This is nothing but another Democratic party versus Republican party oligarchy theatrical show that will turn out the same for the rest of us, Sanders or not.  His supporters are again relying on an establishment figure to lead them out of the wilderness instead of doing it themselves.  And worse, his supporters are part of the ruling class Democratic party, the graveyard of antiwar movements.

I'll say it again.  The reason Sanders has been very general about foreign policy is because he's not in it to win it, he's a sheepdog herding the sheep toward the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton.  He basically said as much when he started his campaign by clearly stating he'd back Hillary Clinton when he's done.  Also, he does support imperialism, Zionism and the MIC so he knows he can't speak in the same manner he does about Wall Street and billionaires.  All he can offer are generalities about "reducing spending" or "avoiding war at all cost", which is exactly what Obama said in 2007/2008. 

Time will tell.