Letter: We were played by the Democrats

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To the Editor-

Two years ago a CBS News journalist round table said Joe Biden’s clear mental and physical decline was the most under reported story of 2024. Let me correct that…of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 AND 2026. The last 8 years. But true self reflection demands the question…why was that? The answer is because most Corporate Media are Democrat propagandists. I call them BLUE MAGA. Under reported because they chose not to report it. And they outright lied. Calling those of us who spoke out, meanies and further gas lighting us.

Debate nite I said a prayer “Let him screw up bigtime”. I didn’t have to wait long..In the first 5 minutes he fell on his face and stayed there. Even then my good friend, a DEM alder, said “Wow, Jody, can you believe how much Trump is lying?” I replied “ARE YOU WATCHING WHAT I’M WATCHING?”

These phony ‘post-event’ autopsies by the media wore thin. There should be a label for journalists. If they donated to D or R, put that in their taglines. These corporate lackeys were given their marching orders from KJP “I can’t even keep up with him”, Pelosi, Obama, Clyburn, the FBI, the DOJ, the entire Cabinet, the VP, Biden’s shrewish wife Jill, Bernie, Raskin, Schumer, the DNC and the entire Democrat Party.

This outrageous fraud upon the American people by government employees and politicians must be adequately investigated. This cannot just be forgotten. This put ALL of us in harm’s way for years. Not just Americans, but Palestinians, the entire World, etc..WE WERE PLAYED BY THE DEMS.

You know what happened next. Kamala was shoved down our throats. Vote for her or vote for Hitler. See, that worked in 2016 and 2020. 2024 Americans said “nothin’ doin'” We defeated BLUE MAGA and I was thrilled. We proved we could do it. DEM Party numbers plummeted. I quit the Party. WE WERE PLAYED BY THE DEMS.

Progressive AOC/Bernie turned out to be massive hypocrites. Kamala lost in Nov 2024. DEMS were still not demonstrating any sort of circumspection or self-analysis and not taking any responsibility for doing things like spending $2.5 million in ‘production costs’ on Oprah, spending millions of dollars on five star hotels for campaign staffers, and putting her face on the Sphere for $450,000 a night. WE WERE PLAYED BY THE DEMS.

AOC has always been controlled opposition, from Day One. She’s nothing but a deep-state astroturfed, smurf funded, wind-up doll, cosplaying as a “progressive” glass ceiling buster. AOC’s career was launched by two Israeli venture capitalists, Joe Raby and Cheni Yerushalmi of Gage Strategies. The origin story is left out of her bio, but suggests an Obama-esque trajectory toward national power and MONEY. WE WERE PLAYED BY THE DEMS.

BLUE MAGA DEMS lamented “Whatever happened in 2024? Was it our messaging?” It is now 2026 and DEM candidates have added a cutesy word to their candidates. Democrat Socialist. We’ve got it..this is how we win again! Surely the public will buy it.

The Corporate Media trumpets Corporate Democrats are finished. Their card is punched. They will be replaced, or more likely absorbed, by a Mamdani-led Democratic Socialist bureaucracy in short order. Though Mayor Zohran is even more overrated as an orator than Barack Obama or Ronald Reagan, he’s now proven that he possesses their same transformational political skill, as his gambit backing three shaky DSA candidates and easily winning all three hands was a masterstroke, one that did mark “a new era for the Democratic Party,” as CNN analyst Van Jones put it.

It’s not Bernie redux. Vermont’s scruffy Senator Sanders will still be trotted out as a totem, a symbol of the insufficiently ruthless old days, tolerated by the DSA’s humorless young leadership in the same way poor old Stepya Verkhovensky was by the young radicals in Dostoyevsky’s Demons. But the 2026 NY Primaries Tuesday (11% turnout) was not about advancing Bernie’s cause.

What happened in NY is being described in many places as a big win for populist or “anti-elite” politics, but it’s the opposite. This was simultaneously a wipeout of Clintonian party hacks and Bernie’s staid F.D.R.-style big tent politics, in favor of a slickly marketed revolution with a young ethnic vibe.

The Zohran movement is an obvious elite fixation, built atop the exotically batshit boutique ideas that America’s nitwit rich find thrilling, like publicly funded “gender-affirming care,” “humanity has no borders,” “no cops, no prisons” smooching on NAZI tattooed guys and my personal favorite, “the institution of the family acts as part of the carceral system.”

If the Sanders campaign was a referendum on the presidency of Barack Obama, the Zohran/DSA revolution is a referendum on America itself, led by people who aren’t the least bit embarrassed to tell you they hate this place. There’s a smorgasbord of batshit statements by DSA folk along those lines, led by the charming Mamdani pal, Hasan Piker. Piker has a new fan, Francesca Hong of Wisconsin. He handed her $50 Grand this week. HONG is plumb nuts. I have watched her in the Assembly. She throws extremist crap at the wall and sees what sticks. She refuses to do the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of the session, like a 5 yr. old brat. Remember when Russ Feingold did that? Julie Lassa? Katrina Shankland? Vinnie Miresse? Nope, because they were/are respectful public servants. Who worked for US.

That’s the difference between the Sanders movement and this new “tidal wave.” Sanders loved every inch of Vermont and was desperate to implement ameliorative social reforms he sincerely believed would turn around a country and a government he revered, borders and all. His platform was designed to fit in the American system, only with government acting as a tougher negotiator for the ordinary person.

The Zohran revolution, meanwhile, is a whole-hog, f**k-it, “real-thing” marketing version of pretend socialism. Boy, is it ever selling with our beautiful people, who’ve never met a bad idea they didn’t love. Just bear in mind, these fancy DEM Socialists promoted genocide Biden/Harris, belong to the DEM party, pay DEM dues, take bags of money from the DEM Party. They are beholden to the BLUE MAGA DEMS. They are, my dear countrymen and women, PLAYING YOU AGAIN.

Jody Hurrish
Stevens Point