Progressive Political News

Bernie Sanders supporters have a multitude of criticisms of cable news shows, ranging from them being the supposed gatekeepers of the establishment to the networks being in cahoots with the corporate interests that fund their shows, hence the apprehension to actual progressive politics and the likelihood of both a higher tax bill and losing of their stranglehold on American politics. Chris Matthews, host of 'Hardball' on MSNBC is one of the premier anti-Sanders pundits on what is considered the premier anti-Sanders news network. Matthews has previously asked Joe Biden surrogate John Kerry " how big of a threat would Bernie Sanders be to the country ?" However, Matthews has well and truly outdone himself now. While Matthews was on another MSNBC show, Morning Joe, he proposed the ridiculous question of which Democratic Primary candidate would get out of their car and help you should you be involved in a car accident. Matthews stated: " It's sort of like...

Healthcare has been listed in several polls as the key issue heading into the 2020 Democratic Primary and subsequent general election against sitting President, Donald Trump. The ten remaining Democratic candidates all have differing policy ideals when it comes to healthcare, ranging from Sanders 'Medicare for All', Joe Biden favouring "building on Obamacare" - whatever that actually means is anybody's guess - or Pete Buttigieg's 'Medicare for all who want it', which is effectively a fancy, means-tested way of saying that he's in favour of a public option. Buttigieg's whole facade is that he's the young and intelligent moderate, a young Joe Biden, supposedly. His supporters love to scream about the fact that he would be the first gay president or that his wonkish and convoluted views on policy are exactly what's needed in order to break congressional deadlock, especially on healthcare policy. His plan - 'Medicare for all who ...

CNN journalist Chris Cillizza has spent most of his recent journalistic career being ridiculed on social media from all sides of the political spectrum due to his incredibly awful takes, seemingly living by the manta of 'well, if everyone hates me I must be doing something right!' Even fellow mainstream liberal journalists such as Charles Pierce and Todd Zwillich have asked Cillizza if he ever "spends a second critically thinking" and claiming Cillizza is "completely incapable of critical thought." When looking for things to write about, I often save pictures or keep bookmarks of things that I think could be interesting topics to comment on and after digging through the previously saved pictures I found an old Cillizza Democratic Primary 'Power Rankings' that was published at the very start of the primary process and thought it would be interesting to see how his predictions have held up over time. Now, we've all made predictions that hav...

Jason Johnson, who contributes to MSNBC and The Root, has spent the majority of the 2020 election cycle going to war with Bernie Sanders supporters on Twitter. Johnson is repeatedly negative towards Sanders and his presidential aspirations, garnering obvious pushback from Sanders' supporters. Following this, David Doel, host of progressive Youtube show The Rational National, recently produced a video of Johnson's comments about Sanders in early 2019 and the beginning of 2020. The video begins with Johnson's remarks about Sanders while on Morning Joe on the 2nd of January 2020, in which Johnson stated that he believed that Sanders supporters were not supporting him for policy reasons, just that his supporters saw him as some kind of Democratic saviour, also claiming that his supporters couldn't be convinced with policy arguments as all of Sanders' supporters are just "Bernie or bust type people". Now, I could tell you from personal experience that t...

One of the main talking points used against Bernie Sanders and his supporters is that their lack of enthusiasm and support for Hillary Clinton in 2016 directly led to Donald Trump becoming president, with Sanders supporters being labelled as privileged and sexist for not backing Clinton, and yes that includes you misogynistic Jill Stein/Green Party voters! However, our favourite anti-Bernie Democratic loyalist, Sally Albright, now insists that it isn’t pivotal that you support the Democratic nominee in order to defeat Donald Trump, should Sanders win the 2020 Democratic nomination. Albright recently claimed that “ 4 more years of Trump would be better in the long run ” as opposed to a President Bernie Sanders. This comes after the “moderate” wing of the Democratic Party have spent the past three years suggesting that apathetic Sanders supporters are the cause of every terrible Trump decision and we’d be in a utopia if us sexists would have just fell in line behind Clinton. In ...

The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union has literally dominated the mainstream news cycles for well over three years now. You’ll hear the word “ Brexit” likely within a few minutes of switching on virtually any news show.  The divisions within the country that led to Brexit (opposition to immigration, parliamentary sovereignty/opposition to globalisation) were the main reasons given to polling agencies and survey takers, which in turn led to the flourishing of another division surrounding Brexit: anyone who voted “Leave” is a far-right racist who hates immigrants and has no idea how an economy functions, and are poorer, less educated members of society.  But, with most insane hot takes, it has to go a step further. As you can see pictured above, our friend Laurence here is casually advocating for the genocide of any and all “Leave” voters. Quite how you can propose a genocide of any political dissidents and suggest that you’re morally correct is qu...