Having subjected myself to the much-hyped, barnstorming, astroturfed, national socialist “Fight Oligarchy” tour by Bernie and AOC, one can’t help but notice that it’s heavy on the soaring rhetoric and notably absent of specifics.
(Let’s note the irony of Democrats calling themselves the opponents of “oligarchy,” being the party of the oligarchs, bankrolled by the king of oligarchs, George Soros.)
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Yes, okay, oligarchy is bad.
How about policy?
What are you going to do about oligarchy?
Crickets.
All you get is vague lambasting of billionaires and “oligarchs” — the ones who don’t cut checks to Democrats. Somehow George Soros’ name never comes up.
Why won’t they make specific policy pledges?
If lofty rhetoric alone drove out the base, so many Democrats wouldn’t have fled the plantation back in November.
Prior to becoming president, Biden promised a $15/hour minimum wage to get the rubes out to vote.
After assuming office, he didn’t lift a finger to make it happen. In fact, as president, he literally never mentioned it again.Similarly, back when she was positioning herself as a progressive to lure Bernie Sanders voters in the 2020 primary, Kamala Harris flip-flopped 180 degrees on Medicare For All in a single day.
What happened in those 24 hours?It’s not that she was hamstrung by principle — she is unburdened by those — it’s that, in that tiny window, her consultants and donors got hold of her and informed her that endorsing it was a red line she couldn’t cross if she wanted to maintain her status as the establishment’s favored puppet.
Whatever one thinks of raising the minimum wage or Medicare For All, they are absolutely popular with huge swathes of the public, and would almost certainly give Democrats electoral victories if the voters truly believed they would deliver on them.
But they won’t, because they are first and foremost beholden to special interests.
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The same phenomenon, before Trump, often cropped up on the right.
For decades and decades, Republicans promised to close the border and stem the flow of immigrants, because they understood the base desperately wanted it.
Yet in election cycle after election cycle, once they got into office, absolutely nothing changed on that front.
Why?
The “business community,” represented by the Chamber of Commerce types, benefits greatly from open borders.
Watch George W. Bush admit he doesn’t care at all about border control when he has no elections to run for any longer, in stark contrast to his fake promises to do something about illegal immigration when he pandered to the base.
What I’m trying to say is that we’ve spent many long decades living in a fake democracy. Trump, a proxy for populist rage, was never supposed to get in charge, which is why the Deep State has spent a decade trying to destroy him.
