Barbarians At The Gate

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A key weapon of the neo-liberal establishment in delegitimising the emergence of popular organisation to the left, is to portray all thinkers outside the Overton window as dangerous; actively violent, misogynist and racist.

This one's for all the Berniebros:

Just one of the ways that was done was by secretly promoting to the media the idea that Sanders’ supporters were violent, misogynist and intimidatory thugs.

The author ties the jihad against Sanders and Corbyn together:

he Labour Party constituency meeting at Brighton gives us a precise analogy to the Nevada Democrats meeting. Again claims were made of violent intimidation, swearing and spitting. Again, in this age where everybody has a video camera in their pocket, there is absolutely zero objective evidence of this behaviour and a great deal of evidence to the contrary. It appears the real sin of the Brighton Labour Party members was to elect pro-Corbyn officers. That election has now been annulled.

Media complicity with the Establishment?

The mainstream media has become the home of fact free journalism. If you want to find anything approaching truth, you have to go surfing the social media.

Corbyn supporters were anti-semitic:

Finally, we come to the slur that Corbyn supporters are anti-Semitic. As I have stated before, one obvious flaw in this charge is that almost all Corbyn supporters enthusiastically cheered on Bernie Sanders. . . .

What has been extremely reprehensible has been the tendency to the mainstream media to slip in, as the Guardian did with the case of Luciana Berger, examples of genuine and appalling anti-Semitic abuse, without making clear that in these cases the perpetrators (and somebody was convicted) were from the far right and had absolutely nothing to do with Corbyn and his supporters. Much the same is true of references to the murder of Jo Cox.

Long story short:

The Establishment will always attempt to characterise any root challenge to its hegemony and ideology as violent, atavistic and subscribing to appalling beliefs and behaviour. The theme of challengers as “Barbarians” runs through history. We will have to put up with it for some time. The good news is, they are seriously rattled.

Lots more good stuff where that came from: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/07/barbarians-at-the-gates/

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detroitmechworks's picture

How I don't trust Roman accounts. I believe we can add American Accounts to that list.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Slightkc's picture

and been called all those names and more. Some of it even got violent, as in rioting in high schools, not just colleges.

They didn't wait long enough. We Boomers who believe are NOT going to go quietly into any good night!

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