Bernie Defends The AMA

Bernie Defends The AMA

Are You Feeling The Bern?

I used to be a Bernie guy.

Back in 2016, and in 2020, I thought he was the real deal. I even attended a rally in San Antonio.

I thought he was a chance for something resembling justice. But that was before he bent the knee. First to Hillary. Then to Biden and the DNC establishment machine he claimed he was fighting against.

It was also before he showed his cowardice on Palestine, waiting months into a literal genocide before mumbling anything about Gaza, and even then, he’s still avoided using the word genocide like it might burn his tongue. Something even Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican, has been able to clearly label it.

Bernie’s campaign staff had people dragged out of a rally for waving a Palestinian flag, very progressive and “revolutionary” of him.

So let’s talk about praxis versus theory.

Because it’s one thing to write a book about billionaires being bad. It’s another to actually accomplish something that breaks corporate power.

RFK Jr. has actually done it.

He basically single-handedly forced ethyl mercury out of vaccines, by suing Big Pharma and winning. He got artificial colors out of food, colors that Europe banned due being linked to ADHD in kids, and had been phased out years ago throughout the EU and Canada. He’s the guy who went after Monsanto and won, exposing the cancerous disaster of Roundup.

That’s tangible, measurable action against corporate power. What has Bernie done? He hasn’t “shifted the Overton Window.” He just surfed a wave of growing leftist discontent with capitalism and then redirected it straight back into the Democratic Party, the establishment that got us here in the first place.

During a recent exchange in the senate RFK tried to talk about how the medical establishment is compromised by corporate money, and Bernie cut him off before he could even finish a sentence.

Then Bernie mocks him for questioning the medical establishment, including the AMA. RFK says, “There’s a difference between established medicine and the medical establishment.”

A sharp point, but Bernie brushed it off.

It’s the same trick Elizabeth Warren, another self labeled “progressive”, tried to pull when she went after RFK, accusing him of suing Big Pharma just to “financially enrich himself.”

Notice the framing, she didn’t say he was holding corporations accountable for poisoning people, or that he was forcing billion-dollar industries to answer for the damage they caused.

No, she painted it as if poor, helpless Big Pharma was the victim, and RFK was some ambulance-chaser trying to cash in. That was a calculated smear designed to flip the moral script, to make fighting corruption look like corruption itself.

The problem for both Bernie and Warren is that RFK was right. The AMA, the crown jewel of America’s medical establishment, has been a corporate mouthpiece for decades.

This is the group that helped fuel the opioid epidemic by cozying up to Purdue Pharma and pushing painkillers as “safe,” and only changed their tune after the bodies started piling up and the situation could no longer be ignored.

The knew way before it got that bad, but didn’t change course.

They spent decades systematically excluding Black physicians, barring them from membership until the late 1960s.

They fought tooth and nail against Medicare and Medicaid when they were first proposed, because they cared more about protecting private profits than public health.

And today, they continue to take money from pharma companies while pretending to be neutral arbiters of science, they’re a cartel.

The Democratic Party machine and their media stenographers have gone into overdrive trying to smear RFK. They’re pumping out hit pieces, pushing the “conspiracy theorist” label on loop, and working overtime to plant the idea in people’s minds that RFK is dangerous, unserious, and fringe.

Because he’s one of the few who’s proven he can actually win fights against the corporate establishment. Bernie never made the DNC nervous. RFK does, which must be why they wouldn’t even allow him to debate Biden during the primary, and why he defected over to the regime of chaos.

That’s another point where the contrast with Bernie gets even sharper. Bernie loves to rail against corporate greed, and sure, he’s given some fiery speeches that made good headlines.

But what’s he actually done to make those corporations bleed? Has he dragged Big Pharma into court and forced them to pay damages? Has he made food giants pull toxic additives off the shelves? No.

At best, Bernie’s nudged the conversation leftward for a news cycle or two, only to funnel that outrage right back into the same machine that protects these corporations.

What RFK has actually said about vaccines gets twisted beyond recognition. He’s not some cartoon anti-vaxxer hiding in a bunker with tinfoil on his head, what he’s been arguing is that vaccines should be held to the same standard of safety as every other medical product, and that pharmaceutical companies shouldn’t get blanket legal immunity when their products cause harm.

He’s pushed for more rigorous evaluation, more transparency, and more accountability, not for tossing out vaccines altogether. But of course, the establishment and their media mouthpieces spin that into “he wants your kids to get polio,” because it’s easier to smear him than to admit that Big Pharma shouldn’t be above the law.

This is another point where the difference between RFK and Bernie really comes into focus.

RFK actually goes after the structural corruption, he points out the legal shields, the captured regulators, the way Big Pharma writes the rules to protect itself.

He doesn’t just talk about “bringing down drug prices,” he talks about ending the immunity that lets corporations profit without consequence. Bernie rails against “greedy drug companies” in speeches, but never pushes the hard levers that would actually break their stranglehold.

He tiptoes around the real fights, because the second you say corporations shouldn’t be immune, the whole establishment starts screaming.

RFK leans into that fight, Bernie avoids it.

RFK actually left bruises on Big Pharma. Bernie just gave them a stern lecture and then voted for the same establishment he claims to be against.

RFK has actually gone after Big Pharma and won. He’s actually forced real changes. Bernie writes nice speeches about billionaires while helping Biden shovel weapons into Israel’s genocide.

At some point you have to stop asking what people say they stand for, and look at what they actually do.

Bernie’s legacy will be that he inspired millions, then handed them back to the very machine that crushed them. Twice.

He showed people the rot of capitalism, then told them to go vote for the rot’s frontmen.

That’s managed dissent.

RFK, on the other hand, has spent his career torching bridges with the establishment. He’s actually dragged corporations into court and forced them to change. You can disagree with him on plenty, but you can’t say he’s just another career politician reading slogans, and that’s exactly why they’re doing their best to take him down, and why Trump teamed up with him.

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”