Sarah Kendzior; disingenuous, misguided, or just plain stupid?

I like Sarah Kendzior. Back when she was a freshly minted Dr. Phil who found herself squeezed off the tenure track, she used to write about that. The writing was heartfelt and convincing because she knew what she was talking about.

She has yet to find that track, but she may no longer care. Check out the brand she’s built. This woman is going places! She’s one 60 Minutes profile away from becoming a serious public intellectual!
 
But when I consider that, and when I read of the various accolades she has won over recent years (Foreign Policy named her one of the 100 people you should follow on Twitter to make sense of global events), I have to marvel at the fact that the bar has been set so astoundingly low.

Take her latest effort as “op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail” for example; Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance.

Ah yes, “the resistance!”

That one word conjures all sorts of imagery of heroic anti-Nazi derring-do in occupied Europe during the ’40s. The French resistance. The Dutch resistance…

The Greeks and Poles resisted too. In every case we saw courageous citizens, infinitely out-manned and out-gunned, standing against the Nazi behemoth.

That’s not the resistance Kendzior is talking about. No, she’s talking about the resistance to Trump’s election victory. This is not a resistance led by courageous partisans hiding out in the woods and risking their lives for a cause.

It is a resistance led by Hillary Clinton and a Democratic Party elite that a year ago lost an election in spite of having more Wall Street money behind it than any previous campaign in US electoral history.

I can see why they’d be pissed.

At the same time, the claim that the Dem Party establishment or any of the mainstream media platforms Kendzior regularly appears on are even remotely threatened is beyond hokum.

Seriously?

Some players in the internet ecosystem want to squash net neutrality so they can be more profitable, not because they want to silence the Globe and Mail and the US news sites the Globe loves to parrot, the Washington Post and the NYT.

As you know, all those platforms are vehemently anti-Trump.

What’s being silenced are media platforms that question the narrative of the Dem Party elite and the “resistance,” sites like RT and Sputnik and Michael Chossudovsky’s Global Research.

So relax, Sarah… so long as you continue to faithfully toe the official DNC line, you’ve nothing to worry about!