After 25 years, I'm extremely burned out on saying obvious stuff like "there shouldn't be medical bankruptcy" and "people deserve paid sick days" and then being berated as a Bernie Bro. After a quarter century, the psyop has worked to fully demoralize me.

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 8, 2022

Before the BernieBro accusations, it was that you were “unrealistic” and what you wanted was “impossible.” Then the BernieBro crap came along and worked very well indeed — because it neatly combined with a lot of mediocre mostly-women reporters’ strange desire to re-enact their romantic disappointments on the protean canvas of Bernie Sanders hatred.

How that developed exactly, I’ll never know. But it is an example of a truly well-run propaganda operation and of how little most people can control their own minds.