Some people are attached to the idea that the Democratic National Committee will “rig” the presidential nomination against Bernie Sanders. The meme encourages the belief that the Bernie 2020 campaign is futile because of powerful corporate Democrats. But such fatalism should be discarded.
As Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Of course top Democratic Party officials don’t intend to give up control. It has to be taken from them. And the conditions for doing that are now more favorable than ever.
Tasirin bukatun da aka tattara na neman sauyi a tsarin zaben shugaban kasa na jam'iyyar Democrat ya kasance manyan — not out of the goodness of any power broker’s heart, but because progressives have organized effectively during the last two years.
“I think I will not shock anybody to suggest that the DNC was not quite evenhanded” during the 2016 race, Bernie ya ce last week on CNN. “I think we have come a long way since then, and I fully expect to be treated quite as well as anybody else.”
Babban abu ɗaya: A wannan karon, babu wani ɗan takara da zai iya samun goyan bayan manyan wakilai kamar yadda Hillary Clinton ta yi a farkon tseren. A watan Agustan da ya gabata, karkashin matsatsi na tushen tushe, da DNC zabe a soke kuri'un manyan wakilai a babban taron jam'iyyar Democrat don kada kuri'a na farko na tsarin tantancewa. Ba a yi zabe na biyu ba tun 1952.
Lokacin da ƙwararrun ƙwararrun lokaci suka nace cewa abin da ke faruwa a yanzu ba zai iya faruwa da gaske ba, lokaci ya yi da za a sake duba ƙa'idodin. Shekaru da yawa, mun ji cewa 'yan Democrat masu ci gaba na gaske ba za su iya shiga cikin majalisa mai ma'ana ba. Yanzu, tare da tasirin da ya wuce adadinsu na girma, mambobin majalisar da suka zo kwanan nan suna yin abubuwa da yawa don taimakawa sake fasalin tattaunawar siyasa - musamman Pramila Jayapal, Ro Khanna, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley da Rashida Tlaib.
Yayin da ba shi da tushe, layin da "DNC za ta yi amfani da shi 2020" ya dace don yin tasiri mara kyau. Babu shakka wasu sun yi imani da gaske, tsohuwar ra'ayi tana kawo ɓacin rai da kuma rage kuzari.
Shin yaƙin neman zaɓe na Bernie na 2020 yana fuskantar hawan tudu mai tudu? Tabbas haka ne. An shirya runduna masu ƙarfi don murkushe ta? Lallai.
Amma bari mu fito fili. Babban cikas a gaba ba DNC ba ne - kafofin watsa labarai ne. Kafofin yada labarai mallakar kamfanoni da masu tallan tallace-tallace na wannan ƙasa sune manyan shinge tsakanin Bernie Sanders da Ofishin Oval.
Yawancin lokaci suna aiki azaman farfaganda, manyan kafofin watsa labarai suna aiki azaman tsarin haɓaka ikon kamfani wanda ke da dogon garkuwa Jam'iyyar Democrat daga hade "barazana" na ƙungiyoyin jama'a da ƴan takarar populist masu ci gaba. Haɗin kai daga hagu - waje da cikin wuraren zaɓe - na ci gaba da haɓaka.
Yana da mahimmanci cewa masu ci gaba su haɓaka ƙalubalen ƙalubale masu inganci ga kafofin watsa labarai masu hidima ga tsarin manyan kuɗaɗe. Fiye da kowane ƙarfi, reflexive juya daga kamfanoni kafofin watsa labarai ya tsaya tsakanin mu da Bernie Sanders shugaban kasa.
In sharp contrast to campaigns with enormous budgets for Astroturf, the first Sanders presidential campaign was able to effectively defy the conventional wisdom and overall power structure by inspiring and mobilizing at the grassroots. His campaign was — and is — antithetical to the politics of corporate media.
Misalai biyu na ɗaukar labarai, daidai shekaru uku tsakani, suna nuna abin da yaƙin neman zaɓe na Bernie 2020 zai fafata. A farkon Maris 2016, a wani muhimmin lokaci a lokacin yaƙin neman zaɓe na farko, manazarcin FAIR Adam Johnson rubuce cewa Washington Post "An gudanar da labarai mara kyau guda 16 akan Bernie Sanders a cikin sa'o'i 16. . . taga wanda ya haɗa da muhimmiyar muhawarar Demokraɗiyya a Flint, Michigan, da juzu'in safiyar gobe. "
Days ago, when Bernie Sanders launched his campaign with a big rally in Brooklyn, the MSNBC coverage was so slanted that an kima daga Glenn Greenwald ya bayyana a ƙarƙashin taken "MSNBC Duk da haka Har yanzu Yana Watsa Ƙarya Ƙarya, Wannan Lokaci Game da Jawabin Buɗewar Bernie Sanders, kuma Ya ƙi Gyara su."
Greenwald’s critique of MSNBC focused on flagrantly inaccurate anti-Sanders commentary from a former Hillary Clinton aide that immediately followed the senator’s Brooklyn speech. No Sanders supporter was included in the discussion. The coverage prompted an email from FAIR founder (and my colleague) Jeff Cohen to an MSNBC vice president: “You have no trouble finding hardcore Clintonite Bernie-bashers; please offer some balance in your analysts. In today’s Democratic Party, there’s clearly more sympathy for Bernie than the Clintons — but not on MSNBC.”
Ya kamata a lura da cewa Post is owned by the world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, while MSNBC is owned by Comcast, "kamfanin nishaɗi mafi girma a duniya."
Don magance makaman farfagandar kafofin watsa labaru a yanzu, ya kamata mu fahimci cewa arsenal shine babban makamin da ikon kamfani zai yi amfani da shi a kan yakin Bernie 2020. Dole ne mu fuskanci rundunonin kafofin watsa labaru na kamfanoni yayin da muke ƙarfafa ayyukan kafofin watsa labaru masu zaman kansu na kowane iri.
Norman Sulemanu shi ne wanda ya kafa kuma kodineta na kasa RootsAction.org. Ya kasance wakilin Bernie Sanders daga California zuwa Babban Taron Dimokuradiyya na 2016 kuma a halin yanzu shine mai gudanarwa na Cibiyar Sadarwar Bernie Delegates da aka sake farawa. Sulaiman shine marubucin litattafai goma sha biyu sun hada da Yaƙi Ya Sauƙaƙe: Ta yaya Shugabanni da Kwanan Tsayawa Kashe Mu Don Mutuwa.
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