Buttigieg: Trump ‘Rode the Tail End of the Obama-Biden Economic Recovery’
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg said President Donald Trump did not improve the economy.
Instead, he argued Trump “rode the tail end of the Obama-Biden economic recovery.”
Buttigieg said, “Let’s look at the economy. Look, the president is not good at much, but he is very good for taking credit for having rode the tail end of the Obama-Biden economic recovery, but even pre-pandemic we were having a lot of trouble especially in my part of the country, the industrial Midwest, manufacturing was going into recession. Now we are where we are. The economy is in such precarious shape, unprecedented unemployment numbers, unbelievable pain that people are experiencing and because of the inaction of this White House, but that’s likely to get worse as we go into the fall.”
“So if they want to battle on the economy, let’s have that battle,” he continued. “But let’s also remember that our democracy, our national character and our ability to fight a deadly pandemic are all on the line, not to mention the fact that the United States also needs to restore our credibility around the world. Something that’s very important both for our security and, in my view, for democracy and other shared priorities around the world.”
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JOE BIDEN HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING
FOR AMERICA BUT HE SURE GOT RICH DOING IT!
As a senator, Biden
vigorously voted for several similar bills. In short, based on his voting
record, Joe Biden is not (and never was) a champion of disadvantaged Americans,
unless you consider multi-billion-dollar credit card corporations and
millionaires “disadvantaged.”
This year, it’s Mr.
Biden. Financial industry cash flowing to Mr. Biden and outside groups
supporting him shows him dramatically out-raising the president, with $44
million compared with Mr. Trump’s $9 million.
Biden and Harris, said Obama at
the DNC, would "rescue the economy, like Joe helped me do after the Great
Recession." Rescue? Was this a laugh
line? As Louis Woodhill noted in a May 2012 Forbes article, "[u]nder Obama,
the worst recession since the 1930s has been followed by the slowest economic
recovery in the history of the republic. In a very real sense, there
has been no recovery at all — things are still getting worse."
Dissecting Obama's Delusional DNC Speech
By Jack Cashill
Barack
Obama's speech at the DNC's misbegotten cyber-convention worked only for those Americans,
including most in the media, who paid no serious attention to the eight years
of Obama's presidency. As I document in my book Unmasking Obama, I and scores of other journalists, many of them unsalaried,
did pay attention. What follows are some of the riffs that I, and
likely they, found most entertaining.
Obama
began by telling us the Constitution "wasn't a perfect document,"
implying that he would have done better had he been there. Its
redeeming quality was that it established "a system of representative
government — a democracy — through which we could better realize our highest
ideals."
As
late as March 2011, Obama seemed to believe this, saying, "With respect to
the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that's
just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has
passed."
In
2012, with re-election looming, Obama unilaterally decided he could suspend
deportations through executive orders. He gave out a million or so
work authorizations while he was at it, arguing that he personally could make
laws that were "more fair, more efficient, and more just" than
Congress. Curiously, that is almost exactly what Stalin told the
Politburo when he forcibly collectivized Ukrainian farms.
Said
Obama at the DNC: "Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he
can't. And the consequences of that failure are
severe. One hundred seventy thousand Americans
dead. Millions of jobs gone while those at the top take in more than
ever."
To
blame Trump for the COVID dead is disgraceful, pure
demagoguery. Trump resisted the urge to nationalize the response and
allowed each state to respond to local conditions. As a result,
perhaps a third of American deaths occurred in just three of our bluest states
— New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. A much higher percentage
of people died of COVID in the U.K. Was Trump responsible for
those? As to "those at the top" who profited — people like
Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos — they are almost all Obama-supporters.
"For
eight years," said Obama, "Joe [Biden] was the last one in the room
whenever I faced a big decision." Biden was certainly in the
room on January 5, 2017. So were Comey, Brennan, Rice, Clapper, and
Sally Yates. The "big decision" here was how best to tie
Trump to Russia and subvert his presidency, "by the book," of course.
In
speaking of the Biden-Harris ticket, Obama told the DNC, "They'll expand
health care to more Americans, like Joe and I did ten years ago when he helped
craft the Affordable Care Act and nail down the votes to make it the law."
The
DNC might have invited Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber to explain how those
votes were really nailed down. Said Gruber when he thought no one
was looking, "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did
not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes,
the bill dies."
"Lack
of transparency is a huge political advantage," Gruber
continued. "And basically, call it the stupidity of the
American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for
the thing to pass."
Biden
and Harris, said Obama at the DNC, would "rescue the economy, like Joe
helped me do after the Great Recession." Rescue? Was
this a laugh line? As Louis Woodhill noted in a May 2012
Forbes article, "[u]nder Obama, the worst recession since the 1930s has
been followed by the slowest economic recovery in the history of the
republic. In a very real sense, there has been no recovery at all —
things are still getting worse."
Here
was one of my favorite Obama lines: "Joe knows the world, and the world
knows him." No one denies that, especially not the Russian and
Ukrainian oligarchs. In February 2009, Biden was the first to say,
"It is time to press the reset button and to revisit the many areas where
we can and should be working together with Russia."
During
a 2011 speech, Biden boasted of visiting a high-tech hub on the outskirts of
Moscow. With a proven talent for taking care of those close to him,
a talent he would hone in China and the Ukraine, Biden encouraged American
venture capitalists to invest there. By the way, yes, this is the
same evil Russia that Trump allegedly colluded with.
According
to Obama, Biden and Harris "believe that no one — including the president
— is above the law, and that no public official — including the president —
should use their office to enrich themselves or their supporters."
At
the time Obama ran for U.S. Senate in 2004, he was still struggling to pay his
student debts. Today, the Obamas have a net worth north of $40
million, almost as much as the Clintons and slightly more than Hunter Biden.
Biden
and Harris, Obama insisted, understand that the military ought not to be used
"against peaceful protesters on our own soil." Obama
actually said "peaceful," and no one apparently laughed.
Biden
and Harris also understand that "political opponents aren't 'un-American'
just because they disagree with you." Catherine Engelbrecht had
to chuckle at that one. Engelbrecht faced twenty-three distinct
audits or inquiries for daring to organize a Tea Party in Texas. The
IRS stalled or rejected the applicants of hundreds, if not thousands, of
comparable groups as well.
In
public testimony, Engelbrecht asked Congress "to end this ugly chapter of
political intimidation. There was a time when people of goodwill
were encouraged to participate in the processes of government, not targeted
because of it." Obama and Biden would not have been re-elected
in 2012 without that "ugly chapter."
Obama
assured us, too, that Biden and Harris understand that "a free press isn't
the 'enemy,' but the way we hold officials accountable." Tell
that to Sharyl Attkisson. Then with CBS News, Attkisson endured an
unprecedented campaign of Deep-State cyber-harassment for her failure to be
"reasonable" in her Benghazi reporting.
Meanwhile,
James Rosen, then chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, went three years
unaware that the DOJ was surveilling his personal and professional
communications. So invasive was the DOJ's surveillance that it moved
even the Washington Post, if not to condemn the action, at least to report it.
After
several minutes of multicultural blather, Obama closed by accusing Trump of exactly
what his administration did in the closing months of the 2016 campaign:
"tear[ing] our democracy down if that's what it takes to win."
Mr.
Barr, let's get those indictments ready.
Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.
Fact Check: Joe Biden
Mismanaged the 2009 Stimulus
20 Aug 2020470
4:28
CLAIM:
Joe Biden led America’s economic recovery in 2009, when he oversaw the Obama
administration’s stimulus.
VERDICT: FALSE. Biden’s management
of the stimulus was a disaster, with a buggy website and failures like
Solyndra.
Democrats keep citing Biden’s role
in the 2009 stimulus as evidence that he would be best to manage the recovery
of the American recovery from the coronavirus. Billionaire mega-donor and
failed presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg made that argument on the fourth
night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Thursday.
But the facts say otherwise.
President
Barack Obama campaigned on
providing a $50 billion stimulus for the U.S. economy. By the time he took
office, in the wake of the global financial crisis, that figure ballooned and
eventually hit $862 billion in federal spending.
Obama gave Biden the job of
overseeing the stimulus. But things went wrong from the start.
The official
website monitoring the stimulus, Recovery.gov, was plagued by bugs, even
listing stimulus grants as having been sent to congressional districts that
simply did not
exist.
Moreover, much of the spending went
to state and local governments to protect public sector union jobs, not to
generate economic growth in the private sector. Other grants went to pet
projects that had very little broader economic impact.
Senators
John McCain (R-AZ) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) released a report on the
waste in the stimulus, as Politico noted:
There’s $4.7 million for Lockheed
Martin to study supersonic corporate jet travel. More than $210,000 for the
National Institutes of Health to study the sex lives of college students. And
roughly $233,000 for California college students to conduct exit polls in
Africa about voting patterns.
…
McCain cited $500,000 for Arizona
State University to “study the genetic makeup of ants to determine distinctive
roles within the ant colony” and another $450,000 to “study division of labor
in ant colonies and develop a model for humans to determine the optimal
strategy for distributing a specialist in a variable work environment.”
There were
other outrageous
projects, like money to the Napa Wine Train, and a golf course in San
Francisco.
Notably,
both McCain and Coburn blamed Biden: “Asked who is to be blamed for such
projects in the stimulus bill, the two senators pointed to Vice President Joe
Biden, who once likened himself to a “sheriff” overseeing stimulus
spending,” Politico reported.
But by far
the most memorable symbol of Biden’s mismanagement was Solyndra, a solar panel
manufacturer to which Biden gave over
half a billion dollars in loan guarantees. He even personally visited the plant
in California, as did Obama.
“By
investing in the infrastructure and technology of the future, we are not only
creating jobs today, but laying the foundation for long-term growth in the 21st
century,” Biden promised at a
groundbreaking for the company, in terms similar to the promises he makes today
about “green” energy.
And then, just months later,
Solyndra went bust.
Biden kept
predicting that things would eventually work. In 2010, he and Obama promised a
“Recovery Summer.”
That summer never came. Unemployment
remained stubbornly high, and Republicans swept the midterm elections in the
House of Representatives.
Ultimately, the stimulus failed — by
its own standards. Obama’s economic team said that the stimulus would prevent
unemployment from rising above eight percent. It went much higher than that,
and for far longer than predicted.
The economy eventually recovered —
slowly — in spite of Biden and the stimulus, not because of them.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior
Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday
evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020
Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner
of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter
at @joelpollak.
WE KNOW WHAT
OBAMA-HOLDER-BIDEN DID FOR THEIR CRONY BANKSTERS! THEIR CRIME TIDAL WAVE IS NOT
OVER AND NONE HAVE GONE TO PRISON!
As a senator, Biden vigorously voted for several similar
bills. In short, based on his voting record, Joe Biden is not (and never was) a
champion of disadvantaged Americans, unless you consider multi-billion-dollar
credit card corporations and millionaires “disadvantaged.”
This year, it’s Mr. Biden. Financial industry cash
flowing to Mr. Biden and outside groups supporting him shows him dramatically
out-raising the president, with $44 million compared with Mr. Trump’s $9
million.
"The
reference to what “Trump’s done” is a
fraud,
since the both the Democrats and
Republicans
endorsed, on a nearly unanimous
basis,
the multi-trillion dollar bailout of Wall
Street in
March."
"Biden reassured Wall Street and the billionaires, “I’m not looking to
punish anyone.”
I’ve also fallen toward a
consultant theory of change — or like, a process theory of change. So a lot of
people on the left would say that the Hillary Clinton campaign largely ignored
economic issues, and doubled down on social issues, because of the neoliberal
ideology of the people who worked for her, and the fact that campaigning on
progressive economic policy would threaten the material interests of her
donors.
Democrats nominate Biden in inane display of political reaction
21 August 2020
The
Democratic National Convention concluded Thursday night with the formal
acceptance of the party’s presidential nomination by former Vice President Joe
Biden, after a final two-hour session that was full of empty clichés, inane
rhetoric and nauseating insincerity.
The
atmosphere Thursday was more of a religious revival than a political event.
There was incessant emphasis on the personal moral superiority of Biden
compared to Trump, accompanied by increasingly maudlin testimonials to Biden’s
alleged deep concern for children, the downtrodden, and virtually anyone who
crossed his path. One former White House official referred to Biden’s “empathy
skills,” a phrase which recalls the old wisecrack: “Sincerity—if you can fake
that, you’ve got it made.”
The sheer
contempt for the intelligence of the
population
and the viewing audience was
summed up
in Biden’s acceptance speech. His
speechwriters
appeared to have been trying
to cram
every possible trite phrase into a
single
20-minute address.
He ran
through a laundry list of promises, from climate change to racism to student
debt, none of which the Democratic Party has the slightest intention of
actually carrying out. Only two phrases had real meaning.
Biden
reassured Wall Street and the billionaires, “I’m not looking to punish
anyone.” This sent a message to the financial aristocracy that, while the
candidate was compelled to make demagogic attacks on the wealthy for electoral
purposes, these would have no lasting consequences. “Nothing
will change” for the super-rich, he told a Wall Street fundraiser last year,
and that pledge he will keep.
And the former vice president denounced Trump for being too soft
on Russia, threatening to hold Vladimir Putin accountable for allegedly paying
bounties to Taliban fighters who attacked American troops in Afghanistan. This
phony story is just the latest fabrication by the New York Times in its
four-year-long campaign to provoke a US war with Russia.
The tone for the convention’s final day was set by the report
Thursday afternoon that a group of 73 former national security officials from
four Republican administrations were endorsing Biden and denouncing Trump in an
open letter to be published in the Wall
Street Journal. The list includes an array of militarists and police-state
operatives who are responsible for the death of millions of people in Latin
America, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Among the
most prominent and most deserving of prosecution for war crimes endorsing Biden
are:
·
John Negroponte, with a bloody record from the contra terrorist
war against Nicaragua to the occupation of Iraq in the 2000s;
·
Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the
1991 Persian Gulf War, and secretary of state during the 2003 Iraq War, in
which he played a central role in justifying a war based on lies;
·
Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency
and later CIA director, who oversaw CIA torture programs and domestic spying;
·
Robert Blackwill, deputy director of the National Security Council
with responsibility for Iraq war policy in 2003–2004;
·
Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center
under the younger Bush; and
·
William Webster, director of the FBI under Reagan and of the CIA
under the elder Bush.
The
support of these former leaders of the military-intelligence apparatus only
underscores the real character of the conflict between the Democratic and
Republican parties, the twin political instruments of the American ruling
elite.
The
Democrats oppose Trump, not because of his tax cuts for billionaires or his
attacks on democratic rights and the rights of immigrants and refugees, but
rather because of differences over foreign policy related to the Middle East
and particularly Russia. An incoming Biden administration would immediately
adopt an even more provocative and aggressive anti-Russian policy.
This was
underscored in one segment after another of the final day’s program leading up
to Biden’s acceptance speech, with military veterans and Republicans brought
forward to speak in video segments. The most strident pro-war message came from
Senator Tammy Duckworth, who denounced Trump as the “coward in chief” for his
alleged capitulation to Putin over the bounties.
As for domestic policy, Biden’s closest political associate, his
Senate chief-of-staff Ted Kaufman, who heads the transition team preparing for
a future Biden administration, told the Wall
Street Journal Wednesday that the rising federal budget
deficit would make ambitious spending programs impossible. “When we get in, the
pantry is going to be bare,” Kaufman said. “When you see what Trump’s done to
the deficit… forget about COVID-19, all the deficits that he built with the
incredible tax cuts. So we’re going to be limited.”
The
reference to what “Trump’s done” is a
fraud,
since the both the Democrats and
Republicans
endorsed, on a nearly unanimous
basis,
the multi-trillion dollar bailout of Wall
Street in
March. The coronavirus pandemic—which, as a
result of
the policies of the ruling class, has produced a social and
economic
catastrophe for the American population—has been
utilized
by the ruling elite as an opportunity to loot the public
treasury.
And it is the working class that will be forced to pay.
Despite
claims by Bernie Sanders that Biden could become the most progressive president
since Franklin Roosevelt, the real policy orientation of a future Biden
administration was signaled by the appearance of billionaire Michael Bloomberg,
who gave the last speech before Biden himself was introduced, pouring scorn on
Trump as a poor businessman and incompetent manager. It is the billionaires and
the military-intelligence apparatus, not political charlatans like Sanders, who
will call the shots if the Democrats win the White House.
Next week
will put the ultra-right ravings of the Republican Party and the Trump White
House on display. The Democratic Party masquerades as the friend of the workers
while doing the bidding of the corporate elite; the Republican Party, under
Trump’s direction, is working to develop a fascist movement. Both parties are
the enemies of the working class, which must develop and build an independent
revolutionary alternative.
BIDEN
WAS SELECTED BY BANKSTER-OWNED OBAMA BECAUSE OF HIS LONG HISTORY OF SERVING THE
BANKSTERS!
Biden
backed brutal bankruptcy bill in 2005
By Chris
Talgo
In 1999, then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) declared, “I’m not the senator from MBNA.”
Apparently, Biden felt it was necessary to clarify that he did not exclusively
represent credit card giant MBNA because his constituents were thoroughly
confused, based on his track record of being a shill for credit card companies
located in the First State.
Then, six years later, Biden inserted his
foot directly into his mouth (again) when he championed the notorious (and
ill-named) Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA). A
more appropriate name could have been the Act to Protect Credit Card Companies
and Shaft Students and Workers.
In short, BAPCPA was a terrible bill that
favored credit card companies, big banks, and millionaires over working-class
borrowers. It also is solely responsible for the fact that student loan debt is
totally impossible to dismiss -- even after one has declared bankruptcy.
Wait a minute, I thought Joe Biden was the
consummate defender and advocate of the working class and oppressed. Far from
it. In reality,Biden’s political career of more than four decades was predicated
upon protecting the interests of credit card companies.
And he and his son, Hunter, were
compensated handsomely for doing so. According to a 2019 GQ article titled “How Biden Helped Strip
Bankruptcy Protection From Millions Just Before a Recession” -- “one of the
biggest credit card companies in Delaware, MBNA, hired Joe Biden's son Hunter
in 1996. Even after Hunter became a federal lobbyist in 2001, he stayed on at
MBNA as a consultant at a fee of $100,000 per year, meaning he was pulling in a
six-figure salary at the same time his father was pushing for the industry's
top priorities.” Can you say, quid pro quo, Joe?
As if the backroom deals and “you scratch
my back, and I’ll scratch yours” shenanigans that Biden blatantly engaged in
before, during, and after BAPCPA was passed were not bad enough, the bill
wrought untold damage among the very people Biden constantly claims to protect.
According to Adam J. Levitin, professor of law at Georgetown
University, BAPCPA “was perhaps the most anti-middle class piece of legislation
in the past century.” And, as Levitin writes, “Biden used his clout to push for
the law’s passage and to defeat amendments to shield servicemembers, women, and
children from its harsh treatment. When votes were taken, ‘Middle-Class Joe’
was no friend to the middle class.” It sure seems that Biden abandoned his
Lunchbox Joe persona when it came to voting in favor of BAPCPA, not to mention
that he strongly supported amendments that made the bill even more hostile to
the middle class!
And adding insult to injury, Biden also
voted against several amendments that were specifically meant to help several
“underprivileged” groups. As Levitin writes, “He voted against three amendments to ease bankruptcy requirements for consumers whose financial
troubles stem from medical expenses. He voted against an amendment that would have helped seniors keep their
homes. He voted against exempting servicemembers and widows of
servicemembers killed in action from the law’s eligibility restrictions. He voted
against an amendment to exempt women whose financial troubles
stemmed from deadbeat husbands’ failure to pay child support or alimony. And Biden even voted against an amendment that would have ensured that children of
debtors could still be given birthday and Christmas presents. Biden also voted against allowing debtors to pay their union dues
during bankruptcy,
potentially imperiling their employment and ability to achieve financial
rehabilitation.” Could Biden’s voting record on this bill get any worse?
Actually, yes.
Not only did Biden strongly oppose BAPCPA
amendments aimed to help “disadvantaged” groups, he voted for two giant
loopholes that effectively allowed millionaires to shield their assets from
collectors after they filed for bankruptcy. What a joke, Joe.
As a senator, Biden vigorously voted for
several similar bills. In short, based on his voting record, Joe Biden is not
(and never was) a champion of disadvantaged Americans, unless you consider
multi-billion-dollar credit card corporations and millionaires “disadvantaged.”
Chris Talgo (ctalgo@heartland.org) is an editor at The
Heartland Institute.
Obama’s State
of Delusion ... OR JUST ANOTHER "Hope & Change" HOAX?
”The
delusional character of Obama’s State of the Union
address on
Tuesday—presenting an America of rising living
standards and
a booming economy, capped by his declaration
that the
“shadow of crisis has passed”—is perhaps matched
only in its
presentation by the media and supporters of the
Democratic
Party.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/01/oxfam-richest-one-percent-set-to.html
“The general
tone was set by the New York Times in its lead editorial on Wednesday, which
described the speech as a “simple, dramatic message about economic fairness,
about the fact that the well-off—the top earners, the big banks, Silicon
Valley—have done just great, while middle and working classes remain dead in
the water.”
OBAMANOMICS:
The report
observes that while the wealth of the world’s 80 richest people doubled between
2009 and 2014, the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population (3.5
billion people) was lower in 2014 than it was in 2009.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/01/oxfam-richest-one-percent-set-to.html
In 2010, it
took 388 billionaires to match the wealth of the bottom half of the earth’s
population; by 2013, the figure had fallen to just 92 billionaires. It fell to
80 in 2014.
THE OBAMA
ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS
“The goal of
the Obama administration, working with the Republicans and local governments,
is to roll back the living conditions of the vast majority of the population to
levels not seen since the 19th century, prior to the advent of the eight-hour
day, child labor laws, comprehensive public education, pensions, health
benefits, workplace health and safety regulations, etc.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/01/oxfam-richest-one-percent-set-to.html
“In response
to the ruthless assault of the financial oligarchy, spearheaded by Obama, the
working class must advance, no less ruthlessly, its own policy.”
New Federal Reserve report
US
median income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery”
The yearly income of a typical US household dropped by a
massive 12 percent, or $6,400, in the six years between 2007 and 2013. This is
just one of the findings of the 2013 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer
Finances released Thursday, which documents a sharp decline in working class
living standards and a further concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich
and the super-rich.
Why the rich favor the
Democrats
There's little doubt that today's Democrat Party is the party of
the rich. Actually, that's an understatement. Far more
than billionaires are involved. A better expression of reality would be to say a
fundamental core of Democrat coalition is the managerial class, also known as
the elite. These are the people who run the media, Hollywood and
the entertainment industry, the big corporations, the universities and schools,
the investment banks, and Wall Street. They populate the upper
levels of government bureaucracies. These are the East and West
Coasters.
The alliance of the affluent with the Democrat Party can be seen
in the widely disproportionate share of hefty political donations from the
well-to-do going to Democrats and a bevy of left-wing causes. It's
also why forty-one out of the fifty wealthiest congressional districts are
represented by Democrats.
BLOG: DEMS LOVE SOCIALISM FOR ILLEGALS TO KEEP THEM COMING AND
BREEDING ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE AND SOCIALISM FOR BANKS. TRILLIONS OF
DOLLARS OF IT!
Bernie Sanders is an exception. But he's an
anomaly viewed as dangerous to the party, which is why he's being crushed by
the Democrat establishment.
Why do the wealthy align with the Democrats? The answer
may seem counter-intuitive, but it is really quite simple. It's
surely not ideals or high-minded principles. Nor is it
ignorance. Rather, it boils down to raw self-interest.
In his book, The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, Christopher
Caldwell notes that rich Americans think themselves to be as vulnerable as
blacks. They are a relatively small minority of the
population. They fear being resented for their wealth and power and
of having much of that taken from them. Accordingly, the wealthy
seek to protect what is theirs by preventing strong majorities from forming by
using the divide and conquer principle.
As R.R. Reno writes when reviewing Caldwell's book: "Therefore, the richest
and most powerful people in America have strong incentives
to support an anti-majoritarian political system." He goes
on: "Wealthy individuals shovel donations into elite institutions that
incubate identity politics, which further fragments the nation and prevents the
formation of majorities."
Some of the rotten fruit of the wealthy taking this approach
include multiculturalism, massive immigration of diverse people,
resistance to encouraging assimilation, racial strife, trying to turn
white males into pariahs, and the promotion of gender
confusion. Through
it all, society is bombarded with the Orwellian mantra that
"diversity is strength," as if repeating it often enough can make it
so. It is also why patriotism and a common American culture are so
disparaged today. Those from the upper strata of society project the
idea that if you're a flag-waving American, you must be some kind of retrograde
mouth-breathing yokel.
The wealthy as a groups are content to dissolve the glue that
holds the U.S. together. And it is all done to enhance and preserve
their power, wealth, and influence. This is why they so hate Donald
Trump. He strives to unite people and the country, although
you'd never know that that is what the president is doing if you
live in the media bubble. Trump's MAGA agenda is
an anathema to the managerial class.
To quote Reno one final time:
The next decade will not be
easy. But it will not be about what preoccupied us in the sixties,
and which Caldwell describes so well. Rather than the perils of
discrimination we are increasingly concerned with the problem of disintegration
— or in Charles Murray's terms, the problem of "coming apart."
Trump and the GOP he is molding are the vehicles to restore and
strengthen national solidarity. Trump said at the Daytona 500, "No matter who wins, what matters
most is God, family, and country." That is not
the Democrat agenda. As seen in Democrat politicians, their
policies, and the behavior of their major contributors, the aim is to further
weaken the social and national bonds in America. There is a lot
at stake here. If solidarity wins, the Republic can survive
and prosper. If the Democrats and their wealthy cohorts do,
then the middle class withers, the Republic dies, and the rich and their
managerial class get to rule the roost. That is what it comes down
to.
ALL
BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS. ALL BILLIONAIRES WANT WIDER OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY
AND HELL NO TO E-VERIFY!
In addition,
establishment Republicans are no better than Democrats at stemming the flow of
illegal immigration because big businesses reap the benefits of this cheap labor without incurring any of the
social costs.
This is why
the SEIU supports blanket amnesty for illegal aliens.
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