Mediating

To achieve success in the US, real liberals (not pseudo-liberals like Kevin Drum) will have to create their own media organizations and journalistic outlets, as any candidate remotely like Bernie Sanders will be far more strongly resisted next time by the neoliberal mainstream press.

And it can’t be measly, tiny websites like The Daily Kos, but media orgs that can rival Fox News in reach and their ability to be on message, and that while not resorting to the dupery and flimflam of Fox must still present paths to a successful capitalist- and neolib-resisting world. In addition, they must present this as a better life for everyone.

By necessity, most identity politics must be omitted, most Tumblr types excluded, and pretend resisters like Amanda Marcotte and Kevin Drum must not be allowed anywhere near it.

The focus must be on class struggle, on unity (yes, I know this is funny after talk of who must be excluded), and on how all lives — not just some chosen group of identity-politics-identified Special People — can be made better by true resistance to neoliberalism and predatory capitalism.

Fighting the mainstream media will be just as important next time as putting forward viable candidates, if not more so.