Bernie Sanders is rapidly making himself into Mr. Irrelevant, a
footnote of campaign history like Jesse Jackson and Howard Dean before
him, the great Progressive Hope of 2016. He pretends he is the
revolutionary his followers want him to be, while he twists and turns
his way to Philly for the coronation of Queen Hillary, where he will
kiss her ring. He and Noam Chomsky and Gloria Steinem and Tom Hayden
can then get on a bus called Furthur Down the Rathole and tour until
November, berating and guilt-tripping independents and lefties to vote
for Hillary and against Hitler, aka Trump.
But that is not the candidate bus tour we need, nor one you could pay
me enough to see. What would tremendously benefit the current scene of
political rot in America is if the Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson,
and the Green candidate Jill Stein, announced a two week coast-to-coast
tour of debates versus each other. Both desperately need to elevate
their poll numbers and break through the corporate media’s censorship of
any candidates but Trump and Clinton. The networks ignore them, except
to run stories of how these so-called third parties are ruining it for
everyone by trying to intrude on our democracy and the massive system of
corruption that so rewards the paid media and the industry of
professional political hacks.
-- John Stauber, "The Debate We Need: Gary Johnson vs Jill Stein" (COUNTERPUNCH).
