Comments on Dem Debate 2020

Over the last week, many pundits in independent media have been screaming for Bernie Sanders to “take off the gloves”, and hit Joe Biden on his abysmal record in the senate. Really, for the most part in the debate, this did not happen. Sanders had a few good messages, particularly over the coronavirus in relation medicare for all, though in the end, Bernie was cordial and refused to call Biden out on his many lies.

For me, this was the main takeaway: Biden continued to lie, and without any push back from the MSM. This should be obvious to many, considering the corporate media is backing Joe Biden, and conveniently over looking his past record, including his current mental breakdown.

Biden seemed to have changed his mind on many issues, appropriating many of Sanders' main talking points, and stump speech topics. The major issue of Climate change, though Biden mentioned its importance, perhaps putting the US back into the Paris Accord, Bernie's response was “big deal”. For certain, the Paris Accord, though wonderful on good intentions, does nothing in terms of the climates immediate threat to the welfare of the planet. Biden was playing politics, lying and mid debate, popping the announcement about putting a woman on his ticket. The MSM pundits went berserk on Twitter, like this revelation likened to the second coming of the Saviour. To be fair, it was rather pathetic.

Biden's biggest lie of the debate concerned his drastic cuts to social security. Sanders' called the corporatist candidate out on the untruth, asking the television audience to check it out on You Tube. Low and behold, there's Biden doing just that, pushing the republican agenda.

The problem is the majority of Biden supporters would not know how to look up the You Tube channel, as most are over 65. And this is the problem. Many experts have said, that in order for Bernie to win against Donald Trump, he must bring out new voters, specifically young voters. Curiously enough, per many exit polls, Sanders' main stay are young voters, aged 18-40. In fact, in order to win, the average American voter, will not come out to vote if there is nothing of value to vote for.

The MSM are falling over themselves to protect Biden's track record and his obvious mental decline. CNN declared Biden the winner of the debate based on spurious evidence. Biden was called out on many lies of the same, and because the neoliberal class depend so much on *identity politics*, and certainly not the issues, of course Biden was the winner, because he managed not to mentally cave in mid sentence.

Overall, the debate was a disappointment. Sanders' could have called so much more out on his opponent. Though he preferred to fall back on his stump speech talking points, rather than attack on the present time issues raised during the debate.

I believe this was Sanders' opportunity to call out the Russia-gate and red baiting from the Democratic establishment and, unfortunately, chose to remain silent. This is another punch in the gut for the progressive movement.