After 40 years of subscribing to the New York Times I am canceling my subscription. I hope if you are reading this you too will think about how you consume information. It really does matter.
The writers, managers, editors, etc. at the NYTimes want change but, they want Obama Change. In their “changed world” they can still vacation in Nantucket, go to Europe from time to time, send their kids to expensive colleges, plan for comfortable retirement, drive a Volvo and, KEEP THEIR STATUS. This is why the pundits, writers and editorial staff are going after Bernie Sanders. They sandbagged him in 2016 and they are at it again in 2020. They don’t want “real change” they want to tinker and feel good about it.
Bernie Sanders is not touting “Obama change” — that loathsome tinkering with a failed system. Take ACA — I have “great” health insurance, subsidized by my employer, and just because ACA was passed my health insurance didn’t stop getting worse. I pay $6,000/year for my wife and I, my co-pays increase like clockwork and getting care and medicine is time consuming, confusing and always difficult. At the end of the year my wife and I pay around $12,000 for our coverage/drugs/doctors/etc. People who benefitted from ACA are forced to buy/obtain healthcare which sucks. ACA helped million but it also propped up a healthcare system which is the root of our problem — a limited and rapaciously priced industry. A perfect centre-left solution — tinker but do not replace. Status quo-ish. Interestingly, the Geithner-Obama bailout did not spare banks any of their bells and whistles while propping up a system which really sucked — maintaining a banking system where a centre-leftist could still give a one hour speech and be paid $250,000.
Bernie Sanders is too far left for the Obama, Geithner, MSNBC, CNN, NYTimes, Nantucket, Volvo, Ivy League, Carville centre-left. James Carville sees a Sander’s nomination as suicide. Chris Matthews sees it as a Nazi invasion. And during the last debate Chuck Todd asked “should the candidate with the most delegates at the end of the primary season be the nominee, even if they are short of a majority?” Only Bernie said “yes.” The rest of the candidates refused to say the vote winner should be the nominee — signaling they will never disrupt the centre-left’s elite status. The New York Times, Chris Matthews, Carville, Clinton(s) and the rest of them will feel just fine with the “not Bernie” candidates. Let the printing presses begin!
I’m cancelling my New York Times subscription and I will do all I can to stop rewarding the people, places, media outlets, etc. who want to stop our democracy when it messes with their status. No wonder Trump gets so much mileage railing against the limousine liberal hypocrisy of the people who attack him.