COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY OWN JONES IN THE GUARDIAN
"The Sanders
movement is bigger than Bernie. Now it must defeat Trump"
That statement is distorted nonsense, otherwise known as
propaganda.
It misses the whole point of current events.
The Sanders movement was exactly and precisely about people
like Hillary. So is the Trump movement. So was the Brexit movement. So is the
internal war going on in the Labour Party.
It was just one aspect of a greater movement taking hold in
several places, as people wake up to the political reality which has grown up
around them, almost like a thick patch of noxious weeds. A sense of an
oppressive establishment – despite nominally democratic institutions - has
people working hard against the establishment.
Left, right, this, or that almost does not matter now. The
issue for so many is whether you are with the establishment or against it.
The establishment - perfectly symbolized in America by
Hillary and in Britain by Tony Blair - almost does not deal with the people it
governs, only dropping phrases in speeches and doing the odd photo-op, smiling
with ordinary folks.
The establishment is about money and the power that money
can buy.
It is aloof, has become almost a kind of international
class, and it has priorities of its own, which include the anti-democratic
stuff we've seen from Hillary's camp plus a major interest in enforcing a given
order on the world.
It embraces war with no concern for what the people think,
and it does nothing helpful for its own people.
Almost all of its efforts are towards securing money and
power and alliances with other members of the establishment.
Newspapers and journalists, like yourself, virtually all
support what they are doing because journalism today is just a small wing or
department of the establishment, its publicity department. Most newspapers and broadcasters today are
not about genuinely informing people. They are about influencing them.
