Going back to early 2017 the Propaganda machine was hard at work demonizing Trump and setting up the Silly Joe memes to get his face out there and attach it to voters.
Today I see ""Bernie is right Joe is wrong we need universal healthcare" at the top of Redshit. That site and especially the politics sub are fully controlled propaganda that do not permit high visibility dissent or calling out the Party Leader as wrong about anything... But this stands out.
I have a hypothesis the next election will be framed by media as Bernie versus whoever is left from the current administration. This completed the agenda of making the US a single party system and still gives voters the illusion of choosing the head of the one party. They shut out other candidates regularly and the Repubs are on the media hate list now.
Just a hypothesis but the Joe memes were pronounced right at this time 4 years ago, next to the "empty inauguration" photo push the media used to make fun of the winner. I'll revisit this in 3.5 years to see if we are a single party country like China of if I was just pessimistic today, but considering the similarities the US has to early Cultural Revolution it seems prudent to wonder how like China the USs cultural cancel movement will go. The tactics we are already seeing in govrnment-corpirate alliance can and have been used to eliminate political parties and prop up a fake democracy before.
If the establishment want bernie then yes.the people having a say ended on the twentieth.