Valley Insiders Added to Biden Transition Team
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After an election year in which the tech giants repeatedly interfered in the election against President Donald Trump, Joe Biden is now rewarding Silicon Valley by appointing insiders to a range of roles in his transition team.
Shortly after election night, the Financial Times reported that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is being considered to lead a key tech task force inside the White House.
As Politico recently reported, four more Google and Facebook emp
Silicon Valley Megadonors Go All In for Biden: $100 Million Anti-Trump Ad Blitz
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A little-known super PAC backed by major donors from Silicon Valley and boosted by massive amounts of left-wing “dark money” is unleashing tens of millions of dollars in attack ads against President Trump in the final weeks of the presidential campaign in order to boost Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in battleground states, with an unprecedented $100-million-plus dedicated to the calculated effort that began in late September.
The super PAC, named Future Forward, became the largest Democratic PAC in just one month, with unprecedented election spending in the last month leading up to elections.
According to media-tracking firm Advertising Analytics, while remaining under the radar, the PAC is on pace to spend over $100 million on TV and digital ads in support of Biden in the final month of the campaign and is currently airing anti-Trump ads throughout battleground states.
The unprecedented spending by the little-known PAC has outdone every other group on behalf of Biden, outside of the Biden campaign itself, by nearly four times and is in large part due to contributions from Silicon Valley billionaires and dark money sources.
On Tuesday, Future Forward reported to the Federal Election Commission that it raised $66 million alone in just the six weeks between September 1 and October 15 — a haul powered by Silicon Valley billionaires, with $29 million of the October money coming from left-wing dark money groups and through the PAC’s affiliated nonprofit, which isn’t required to disclose donors.
Ironically, despite running the largest super PAC funded by billionaires, corporations, and dark money, the PAC’s bare-bone site calls for “serious campaign finance reform” in order to “reduce the influence of big corporations and billionaires on our elected officials.
Future Forward is led by Chauncey McLean, a former Democratic Party operative credited with revolutionizing the way Democrats target voters through television ads in the 2012 election for former President Barack Obama.
Until late September, the biggest-spending Democratic super PAC in the general election had aired only a single television ad during the campaign.
In July 2018, Future Forward published an ad aimed at convincing voters that Trump doesn’t serve the interests of the masses.
Entitled “Happy,” the ad depicted three separate constituencies supporting Trump’s policies.
“These people are happy with the direction of the country,” the ad says after showing groups of white nationalists, wealthy tycoons, and Putin-supporting Russians.
“The idea is pretty simple: it is shocking that the people who are most happy with the direction of the country are also the most evil,” Nick Kaplan and Tim Gordon, the creators of the ad, told Ad Week in July of 2018.
The bulk of Future Forward’s donations have hailed from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz ($22 million) who has extensively researched how to have the greatest impact on voters. Along with Future Forward, he believes getting a strong message out immediately prior to voting is the ideal strategy, Recode reported.
In addition to Moskovitz, an array of Silicon Valley donors have contributed to Future Forward, including longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt ($2.5 million) who served as an informal tech adviser to the Clinton campaign and was closely involved in building Obama’s 2012 voter-targeting operation.
New York Times reporter Ken Vogel first spotted the Schmidt donation, highlighting the fact that Schmidt, the ex-CEO of Google and former chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, who served as technical advisor to the company up until February (and still holds about $5.3 billion in the company’s stock), was serving as a chairman on the Defense Innovation Board, an advisory group aimed at bringing new technology to the Pentagon, while donating to the anti-Trump PAC.
“Knowing that individuals who openly despise and undermine President Trump serve on those boards while only two of 15 people on our campaign’s national security advisory committee landed positions in the administration is nothing short of horrendous,” said J.D. Gordon, who served as the Trump campaign’s national security adviser, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Schmidt has increased his donations to Future Forward since, with reported donations of over $2.5 million.
Other contributors include: Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson and his wife Erica Lawson ($6.5 million); Crypto trader Sam Bankman-Fried ($5 million); Former chairman and CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams, who also founded Blogger and Medium, two of the largest and most notable internet platforms ($2.5 million); and Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings and his wife, philanthropist Patty Quillin ($1 million).
Aside from the $29 million of dark money raised in the first two week of October through the PAC’s affiliated 501(c)(4) nonprofit, Future Forward USA Action, FEC reports show an additional $3.9 million from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, another dark money group that has injected tens of millions into Democratic super PACs.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund has been characterized as one of the “key groups founded to resist Trump” by the left-leaning Atlantic while Politico has called it a “massive ‘dark money’ network” responsible for “boost[ing] Democrats” in the 2018 midterm elections.
Another listed dark money donor to Future Forward is the Democracy PAC ($1 million), a super PAC created by leftist billionaire George Soros in 2019 for the purpose of influencing the 2020 presidential election.
The group’s ambitions are not limited to the presidential race.
In a confidential four-page memo circulated to major donors last week and obtained by Recode, Future Forward and four other Democratic outside groups (Senate Majority PAC, the Strategic Victory Fund, Way to Win, and Mind the Gap) planned $28 million in advertising to boost MJ Hegar, the Democrat challenging Texas Sen. John Cornyn in an uphill race, of which $10 million was expected to come from Senate Majority PAC while another $18 million needed to be raised as of last week.
“Based on an extensive analysis undertaken by Future Forward PAC and Senate Majority PAC (SMP), we believe that Democrats have a plausible chance to flip the TX Senate seat with a major financial investment in the race over the next week,” the memo reads. “We can push the odds of victory up significantly—from 23% to 35-55%—by blitzing the airwaves in the final two weeks.”
Since that memo, Senate Majority PAC announced an $8.6 million campaign in Texas to boost Hegar.
Despite accepting unprecedented amounts of dark money sources, in August the Democratic National Committee (DNC) had adopted a ban on accepting dark money in its 2020 platform.
While Democrats argue that the only way they can rein in big money in politics is to first use it to win, Republicans, who generally oppose major campaign finance reform efforts, have noted the hypocrisy.
“It’s just like everything else Biden stands for. He believes it until it’s of political benefit to reverse himself,” said Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh.
In addition to the millions being pumped into political ads, Big Tech has been suppressing speech potentially damaging to Biden.
Just last week the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) which stated that it “believes that Twitter has violated FECA and the Commission’s Regulations by making corporate in-kind contributions to Biden for President.”
Big Tech’s censorship of election-related content has continued to rise with Twitter repeatedly censoring the President as well as users posting about mail-in voter fraud and with multiple social media platforms censoring a bombshell New York Post story alleging that Biden engaged in a corruption scandal.
On Tuesday, Breitbart News reported how Google, the world’s most powerful technology company, is actively interfering in the coming election by burying links to Breitbart News articles in its search results.
Last week, Google program manager Ritesh Lakhkar slammed the selective censorship that’s deployed by Google and other corporations.
“I disagree with the corporations playing God and taking away freedom of speech on both sides,” Lakhkar added.
As the nation enters into the final week leading up to the election, with unprecedented donations from Silicon Valley megadonors, major tech founders and executives, including those of Facebook, Google and Twitter, have been devoting staggering amounts of time, funding and effort to steer the elections through wide scale speech suppression along with major dark money contributions.
Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
Democrats Call on Biden to ‘Cancel $50,000 of Student Loan Debt’
More Democrats are calling for President Joe Biden to take sweeping action and cancel a large portion of student loan debt as he continues to issue a series of executive orders on a range of issues.
Although Biden continues to take more executive actions than any of his predecessors in his first weeks in office, he has yet to address student loan debt — an issue central to the platforms of many of his former presidential challengers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has continued to press Biden to provide student debt relief.
“@POTUS should cancel $50,000 of student loan debt,” she said Sunday evening, echoing the calls of other progressives pressing Biden to take action:
RT if you agree:@POTUS should cancel $50,000 of student loan debt.
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) March 8, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) actively encouraged Biden to cancel student debt, as has Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who said the president’s willingness to cancel up to $10,000 is simply not enough.
“Many won’t fully feel $10k in forgiveness until after a Biden presidency is over, when they’ve spent 10 years paying off the other $20k+ Dems should be championing policy that people can feel ASAP,” she said, stressing the need for Democrats to “go big” on the issue:
Average student loan debt in the US is ~$30k (LOTS have more)
Many won’t fully feel $10k in forgiveness until after a Biden presidency is over, when they’ve spent 10 years paying off the other $20k+
Dems should be championing policy that people can feel ASAP. We need to go big.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 17, 2021
Philadelphia’s city council has taken it a step further, collectively calling on the administration to “enact a plan by the end of President Biden’s first 100 days in office to cancel all student loan debt and begin the transition to education as a public good.”
Biden’s remarks at the February CNN town hall surprised many progressives after he dismissed the prospect of unilaterally canceling up to $50,000 in student debt.
“I will not make that happen,” he said of the call, prompting the White House to clarify the administration is continuing to examine ways to eliminate up to $50,000 in student debt:
From the Biden town hall on CNN last night, this questioner asked about canceling $50,000 worth of student debt:
“What will you do to make that happen?”
“I will not make that happen.” pic.twitter.com/Y7auUT2YQZ— The Recount (@therecount) February 17, 2021
STUDENT DEBT:
Jen Psaki says President Biden "doesn't favor $50,000 in student loan relief without limitation." https://t.co/dTpOeennP5 pic.twitter.com/o0LxxJ9Sf3
— Forbes (@Forbes) February 17, 2021
“He was reiterating his previous stated position, which is that he doesn’t favor $50,000 in student loan relief without limitations,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki clarified, adding that Biden would be “eager” to sign a measure providing $10,000 in student debt relief.
In a 2019 meeting with 100 super-wealthy potential donors, Biden assured the gathering that he would not demonize the rich and would only increase their taxes slightly while ensuring that their standard of living would not be affected by any of his policies. He also stated: “I’m not Bernie Sanders. I don’t think 500 Billionaires are the reason why we are in trouble”. Further, he unabashedly emphasized that the wealthy are not the reason for income inequality and “If I win this nomination. I won’t let you down. I promise you.” STEVE McCANN
Further, the dubious choice of Kamala Harris as the vice presidential nominee was made solely to placate and reassure Wall Street and the wealthy, as she was viewed by them as being very deferential to the mega-rich class based on her days in California. STEVE McCANN
The Unholy Alliance of Big Business Billionaires and the Democratic Party: Destroying tax-paying middle class Americans.
Years ago, one of the most hated people in this country was Samuel Insull. Insull was a gaffe-prone liberal elite utilities magnate, with a gaffe being where a liberal slips up and tells the truth. A hundred years ago, while testifying before Congress, Insull was timidly asked by a congressman whether treating his employees more humanely might increase productivity. I can almost picture Insull doing the liberal sneer as he retorted that, "In my experience, the best way to increase efficiency is to have a long line of men at my gates". For slipping up and telling the truth, years later FDR hounded Insull to the ends of the earth, eventually having him extradited from Greece only to have this scoundrel acquitted.
What has changed since then? Have liberals stopped the open borders that make it hard for Americans to find work and lower wages? Nope. Liberals now spend untold fortunes on public relations to hide what they are doing. Liberalism is now so awful that liberals must hide the truth and destroy anybody with the temerity to speak the truth.
Even worse, since the cultural revolution of the 1960's, liberals have had two parties while we Americans have had no representation at all, at least up until Trump. The fact that Trump thought average people should have our interests protected and promoted is precisely why they were willing to lie, cheat, steal, maim, and murder to remove Trump from office. When Democrats do an electoral sweep, liberals win, and when Republicans win big, America and Americans lose. This is the way liberals want to keep things. Liberals are painfully aware that when Americans have a choice, liberals don't have a chance.
The Unholy Alliance of Big Business Billionaires and the Democratic Party
Destroying tax-paying middle class Americans.
Ten years ago, Democrats were insisting that wealthy business tycoons and Wall Street fat cats who didn’t “pay their fair share” were the single greatest threat to America. “We are the 99 percent!” was soon to become the battle cry of millions of Obama voters who believed that big businesses were preying upon everyday Americans, and that they were too influential in shaping politics.
Last year, those same multi-billion-dollar corporations and their fat cat leadership were vital allies of the Democrats, central players in a “well-funded cabal” that was “working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change the rules and laws, steer media coverage and the flow of information” so that the Democratic nominee would win the election. Those aren’t the words of a right-wing conspiracy theorist, as you may know, but the words of TIME magazine detailing “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.”
What changed in those ten years? When did the Democrats go from loathing big corporations to loving them, and when did big corporations go from being loathed by Democrats to carrying their water and undermining the political will of everyday Americans to curry their favor? After all, if it were the will of everyday Americans to elect a Democratic president in 2020, why would a “well-funded cabal” be needed to “change the rules and laws” or manipulate the “flow of information” to achieve that outcome?
I remember the precise moment where it had become obvious that Obama was betraying his constituents on this issue. Barack Obama, tasked with tearing down the structural power of big business billionaires, spent 2011 demonizing Bank of America and its leadership for their greedy practices, like charging customers a monthly fee for debit card usage. As you can imagine, Bank of America executives were shocked by Obama’s “audacity” to invite them to help finance the 2012 Democratic National Convention. To entice the bank’s executives, Democrats even moved the president’s acceptance speech to Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, where they courted wealthy donors and sold them million-dollar skyboxes that allowed them to sit high above the masses below that hated their guts because the president had whipped them into a jealous frenzy.
Obama spent his days winking at Occupy Wall Street protestors, and his nights undermining them entirely by ensuring that big corporate lobbyists would have a seat at the Democratic policymaking table. And it seems to have worked, because in 2016 and 2020, big money donors, particularly in the securities and investment industry, provided financial support to the Democratic presidential candidates that dwarfed the big money donors’ contributions to Donald Trump.
One can only imagine the furor about how dark corporate money was influencing the outcome of the election if the contributions in those years were so decidedly in Trump’s favor, but since they weren’t, Democrats haven’t seemed to notice. But one might think that they should have, because Democrats’ historic distaste for these globo-corporate profiteers, who are currently financing Democratic political victories to advance their own self-interests, is ostensibly rooted in something fundamental to the Party’s professed nature, and that is the protection of American workers.
But the Democrats’ labor priorities saw a marked change in recent years from their labor union roots. No longer were they seeking wage protections for the employees of XYZ Widgets in Lansing, or to protect the workers of entire American industries. No, they began arguing that it is a human rights imperative to allow any foreigners, and particularly those from impoverished nations, to enter America illegally, and thus illegally compete for and undercut the wages of American workers.
This benefits illegal aliens, the big businesses who reap excess profits on illegal labor, and Democrats who are importing new voters. But, lucky enough for Democrats, their constituents seem to have forgotten altogether that they were once in favor of protecting the wages of American workers and taxpayers, who unquestionably suffer due to illegal immigration.
This symbiotic arrangement between big business and the Democratic Party is parasitic and destructive to the unwilling host that is the American citizenry, and not only in a financial sense. Giant, multi-national corporations are now the leading spokespersons for Democrats’ social initiatives and policy propositions. It’s incredibly likely that the first multi-national corporation that comes to your mind is one of countless that have entered a coalition of businesses supporting of the Equality Act, a radical proposition that is laden with vague language that is incredibly susceptible to broad abuses by politicians with power, and which will utterly destroy religious liberty in America.
With the Equality Act, the federal government is now seeking the broad authority to demand that a confused young boy must be allowed to shower with your sixteen-year-old daughter after volleyball practice, or that nuns must finance abortions. Global corporations, headed by multi-billionaires who have profited tremendously by undermining American voters and workers, have signed on in droves to support this broad, seemingly illimitable assault on individual liberty.
What unites the Democratic Party today isn’t the protection of blue-collar workers, as it once was, but the coddling of former college students who incurred large debts to get their socialist indoctrination, and who want their neighbor, the plumber, to pay those debts for them. Big business profits and lobbying are no longer a problem, of course, now that the profits are being used to benefit the Democratic Party and its platform exclusively. Big-tent concepts like tolerance and liberty are out of fashion, replaced by demands for coerced acceptance of countless provable and evil untruths, such as the notion that white people are inherently arrogant and ignorant, or that a boy is no different than a girl, or that to be an American citizen means nothing more meaningful than managing to get your feet on American soil.
And Democratic Party simply no longer seems to care about the obvious and objective madness in any of that.
The Democrats’ villains today are no longer rich business tycoons who don’t “pay their fair share” while exercising their power and influence to undermine American workers and strangle individual liberty. Today, it’s only too clear that the villains they seek to destroy are the very same taxpaying, middle-class Americans that they claim to have been championing.
William Sullivan is an author whose work discussing politics, economics, history, and culture in America has been frequently featured at American Thinker for over a decade.
ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS. ALL BILLIONAIRES WANT AMNESTY AND WIDER OPEN BORDERS. ALL BILLIONAIRES WANT NO CAPS ON IMPORTING CHEAPER FOREIGN WORKER.
Further, the dubious choice of Kamala Harris as the vice presidential nominee was made solely to placate and reassure Wall Street and the wealthy, as she was viewed by them as being very deferential to the mega-rich class based on her days in California.
Report: Joe Biden Promises Wall Street Donors the Status Quo in Private Calls
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Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is promising Wall Street donors the economic status quo that they became used to before President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a report.
An investment banker on Wall Street told the Washington Post that in private calls with financial executives two months ago, Biden’s campaign assured them that talk of populist reforms on the campaign trail was nothing more than talking points.
The Post reports:
When Joe Biden released economic recommendations two months ago, they included a few ideas that worried some powerful bankers: allowing banking at the post office, for example, and having the Federal Reserve guarantee all Americans a bank account. [Emphasis added]
But in private calls with Wall Street leaders, the Biden campaign made it clear those proposals would not be central to Biden’s agenda. [Emphasis added]
“They basically said, ‘Listen, this is just an exercise to keep the Warren people happy, and don’t read too much into it,’” said one investment banker, referring to liberal supporters of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). The banker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks, said that message was conveyed on multiple calls. [Emphasis added]
In a statement to the Post, Biden’s campaign downplayed the influence of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — left populists on trade and economic policy — on the former vice president’s agenda.
“The Biden-Sanders task forces made recommendations to Vice President Biden and to the [Democrat National Committee] platform drafting committee,” Biden spokesperson TJ Ducklo said. “This anonymous source appears to be confused and uninformed about this very basic distinction.”
The report comes as Biden told AFL-CIO members on Labor Day that he will be the “strongest labor president” union workers “have ever had.”
“You can be sure you’ll be hearing that word, ‘union,’ plenty of times when I’m in the White House,” Biden pitched. “The words of a president matter. Union. We’re going to empower workers and empower unions.”
In the Democrat presidential primary, Biden told a group of rich Manhattan donors at a private fundraiser that “nothing would change” for them or their wealthy lifestyles if elected.
“I mean, we may not want to demonize anybody who has made money,” Biden said at the June 2019 fundraiser.
“The truth of the matter is, you all, you all know, you all know in your gut what has to be done. We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished,” Biden said. “No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change.”
Like failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Biden has enjoyed a cozy relationship with Wall Street executives, along with his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).
Most recently, Biden touted Wall Street’s support for his plan to abolish America’s suburbs by seizing control of local zoning laws to construct housing developments and multi-family buildings in neighborhoods. Likewise, Wall Street is fully behind Biden’s plan to hugely expand legal immigration levels, beyond already historical highs at 1.2 million green cards and 1.4 million visa workers a year.
The Biden-Harris ticket has elated Wall Street so much that for the first time in a decade, more financial executives are donating to the Democrat candidates than Republicans, the latest Center for Responsive Politics analysis reveals.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Biden’s Billionaires
By Steve McCann
Many years ago, while participating in a voter registration drive, I came upon a grizzled and disheveled old man sitting in the overgrown and weed-infested yard of his paint-starved house calming smoking his pipe. Despite his gruff demeanor, Ully (Ulysses) was very pleasant and loquacious as we talked for over an hour on topics ranging from the weather to the innate foibles of mankind. It turned out that he had to leave school after the fourth grade in order to work in the fields to help support his family and had toiled in a variety of menial and labor-intensive jobs ever since. Yet, he had a deep and thorough insight into human nature. Among his comments about the rich and ostensibly well-educated was: “All the money in the world cain’t buy a fool a lick of common sense.”
I was reminded of that observation after reading an article describing the 131 billionaires who are pouring millions into the coffers of the Democrat party and Joe Biden’s campaign in their mindless obsession to defeat President Trump in November. Among the prominent names are Jeff Skoll, a founder of eBay who has contributed $4.5 million; Laurene Powell Jobs of Apple and owner of The Atlantic magazine has donated $1.2 million, and Josh Bekenstein, Chairman of Bain Capital (co-founded by Mitt Romney), $5 million.
Far more Wall Street financers have also jumped on the Biden/Democrat party bandwagon than are supporting Donald Trump, whose policies have overwhelmingly revived the economy after the stagnation of the Obama-Biden years. The tech billionaires, not content to simply cough up untold millions in direct political contributions, are also funding massive voter drives, promoting mail-in balloting, creating divisive partisan news sites, aiding and designing the Democrat party’s digital campaigns and unabashedly censoring the social media accounts of the Trump campaign and innumerable conservatives.
The political party they are gleefully underwriting in order to oust Trump is no longer the party of the middle and working class (which is now one and the same) but a two-tier assemblage in which the prey is sleeping with the predator. The witless wealthy and socially aware are in bed with the avowed socialists and militant Marxists. What is holding this marriage of convenience together is a mutual hatred of Donald Trump and the undoable promises made by Joe Biden and the Democrat party hierarchy.
In a 2019 meeting with 100 super-wealthy potential donors, Biden assured the gathering that he would not demonize the rich and would only increase their taxes slightly while ensuring that their standard of living would not be affected by any of his policies. He also stated: “I’m not Bernie Sanders. I don’t think 500 Billionaires are the reason why we are in trouble”. Further, he unabashedly emphasized that the wealthy are not the reason for income inequality and “If I win this nomination. I won’t let you down. I promise you.”
Further, the dubious choice of Kamala Harris as the vice presidential nominee was made solely to placate and reassure Wall Street and the wealthy, as she was viewed by them as being very deferential to the mega-rich class based on her days in California.
When the time came to deal with the Marxist/socialist wing of the Democrat party’s anti-Trump coalition, policy commitments, many diametrically opposite of what was promised the wealthy donors, were also guaranteed with a non-verbal pledge of we won’t let you down.
The first step was a de facto party platform. The 110-page Biden-Sanders Manifesto which includes, among other commitments, a massive job killing $2+ trillion climate agenda to phase out fossil fuel usage within 15 years, the elimination of cash bail, redirecting (i.e. cutting) funding for the police, dismantling all border protections, legalizing virtually all illegal immigrants and massively raising corporate and individual tax rates on the wealthy. This manifesto is a socialist screed that would destroy the middle class and permanently neuter the economy and nation.
An effusive Bernie Sanders proclaimed to the world that Biden and the Democrats have embraced his socialist agenda and that Biden would be the most progressive president since FDR. Sanders exposed not only the behind the scenes reality of today’s Democrat party but Biden’s figurehead role.
Further confirmation of the radicalization of the Party came about unexpectedly as the militant Marxist faction of the Sanders coalition forced the issue. Impatient and unwilling to wait until after the 3rd of November, Antifa and Black Lives Matter used the death of George Floyd as a pretext to take to the streets and begin their long-hoped for revolution. They claimed that rioting, looting, committing arson and attacking law enforcement was a necessity as this was a systemically racist country. Yet, they openly demanded immediate changes rooted in their radical Marxist ideology of class warfare not so-called systemic racism. As two of their preferred chants and graffiti slogans “eat the rich” and “abolish capitalism now” confirms.
Biden, the Democrat party hierarchy as well as virtually all Democrat elected officials refused to address the violence and those responsible. Thus, they tacitly approved of the lawlessness and by doing so flashed a green light to continue the riots. When forced to acknowledge the reality on the streets of the nation’s cities, they instead blamed Trump, the police, white supremacists and even the Russians. Due to their spinelessness, the armies of anarchy and revolution Biden and the Democrats unleashed will never be defeated or mollified by them.
Considering the vast dichotomy in the litany of promises made and actions taken, it is inevitable that either the moneyed elite or the mob of passionate true believers will be betrayed. There is no middle ground. Who will prevail?
Will it be the elites whose only weapon is money and fleeting political influence or the passionate mob whose weapons are unconstrained violence and intimidation? Will it be those who believe a revolution could never happen here or those who are currently inciting revolution with the implicit blessing of a major political party? Will it be those who believe that Biden and the Democrats, if elected, will be able to forcefully deal with the insurgents or the insurgents who now know that riots and extortion causes Democrat politicians to cower in the corner?
Beginning with the French Revolution and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, history has recorded that passionate mobs always prevail when dealing with a feckless ruling class or party. And the first casualties have inevitably been the wealthy elites.
I can envision sitting with my old friend, Ully, and asking him if he thought the wealthy elites, indiscriminately tossing money at the Democrats for the sole purpose of defeating President Trump, understood the pitfalls involved. He would lean back, slowly exhale a puff of smoke from his well-worn pipe and with uncontrollable anger in his eyes would say: “Nope. Those damn fools ain’t got a lick of common sense.”
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