THE BILLIONAIRE DEMOCART PARTY FOR AMNESTY & WIDER OPEN BORDERS
Bernie Sanders tours Michigan to prop up the Democratic Party
By Matthew Brennan
22 October 2018
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders took part in a rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday to support Democratic Party candidate for governor, Gretchen Whitmer. The event was part of his current nine-state tour to promote both nominally “progressive” members of the Democratic Party as well as thoroughly establishment figures like Whitmer in the November midterm elections.
Sanders’ tour is part of a systematic effort to use the broad support Sanders gained in 2016 as a presidential candidate to prop up the militarist and right-wing policies of the Democratic Party.
The event in Ann Arbor on Friday was notable for what it revealed about Sanders’ call for a supposed “political revolution” against the “billionaire class” two years ago.
First, the candidates Sanders chose to promote in Michigan on Friday were of the most thoroughly conformist character, almost entirely oriented to the interests of the rich and the upper-middle class.
One of the speakers was current Congresswoman Debbie Dingell. The multimillionaire Dingell is the financial heiress to the Fisher Body auto fortune and political heiress to the 85-year-old “Dingell dynasty” in the 12th District congressional seat. A former GM auto executive, Dingell, along with her husband John Dingell, has been a staunch ally of the Big Three auto companies and the UAW, which have collectively driven down wages and created miserable working conditions for hundreds of thousands of autoworkers in the area. She is also a fervent proponent of trade war and the right-wing “Russian interference” campaign.
Also speaking were the two US Senators from Michigan, Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow. Peters made his career in the stock market as an officer at Merrill Lynch and vice president of investments for UBS PaineWebber, while Stabenow has given key votes to help with banking deregulation and bills attacking immigrant “sanctuary” cities. Both have been reliable supporters of military funding and the financial interests of Wall Street, including the federal budget that increased military spending by $60 billion last month.
Whitmer’s choice for lieutenant governor, Garlin Gilchrist, spoke as well. Gilchrist is currently the Executive Director for the Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR) at the University of Michigan. The CSMR research program, as the WSWS pointed out earlier this year, is being developed to “aid and abet the campaign to carry out Internet censorship” and is seeking a leading role in shaping the policies that will restrict access to information on the internet for tens of millions.
And then there was Whitmer, who spoke only briefly and made very vague statements about “fighting” for clean water, “affordable degrees,” “workers’ rights” and “civil rights.” She is currently being promoted by the New York Times as one of the party’s “breakout sensations” because she is “targeting the union vote” and pledges to “fix the damn roads.”
Whitmer, like every other candidate at the rally, studiously avoided any concrete policy proposals and invoked only the most toothless of slogans. The daughter of a former CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and longtime fixture in the state party apparatus, Whitmer did not even try to invoke some of the evening’s vague calls.
After two hours, Sanders finally took the stage. Sanders spoke in favor the woefully inadequate “fight for the $15 an hour wage” and the vague slogan of “Medicare for All,” which has been taken up by the Democratic Party establishment. He carefully avoided speaking about anything related to “billionaire class.” One brief reference to the “criminals on Wall Street” got the loudest applause of the night, but Sanders quickly moved on to other subjects.
At one point in his speech, Sanders spoke about the significance of his upset presidential primary victory in Michigan in 2016: “That victory, and in 21 other states, told the entire world we are not satisfied with status quo politics. Many ideas which I talked about were considered radical, but you know what’s happened in the past three years? Those ideas are now supported by millions!”
Sanders neglected to remind his audience that he immediately threw his support behind the epitome of “status quo politics,” the militarist and right-wing candidate Hillary Clinton, within a month after winning Michigan. Nor did he mention that he has now become a leading figure in this right-wing political party, which has shifted even further to the right since 2016.
The other revealing aspect of the evening was the marked decline in enthusiasm. In February 2016, just ten miles down the road, Sanders drew an overflow crowd of 10,000 people to his rally at Eastern Michigan University. In contrast, the 1,000-person capacity auditorium on Friday was about 90 percent full. The audience was dominated by professionals and party-connected young people, with very few workers.
Also notable was what did not come up even once all night: any opposition to or even mention of the unending wars being waged by US imperialism around the world. After over a dozen speeches from leading Democrats in the state and Sanders, one would have no idea that over 80 percent of the most recentfederal budget bill was earmarked for military spending, or that the US is threatening was against Russia and China, with incalculable consequences.
Barely mentioned was anything related to the ongoing and deepening attack on millions of immigrants—including 12,000 detained children—as well as the growing crisis facing young people through drugs and deaths of despair. Needless to say, there was no mention of socialism, despite Sanders’ false association with the term.
DNC: 'Top Sekret Plan for
Midterms'
I was buying a gallon of kombucha tea at Whole Foods for a block
party by my neighbors who fancy themselves upscale members of the
"resistance." I had hoped that this disgusting concoction
would clear their heads and digestive tracts so they'd stop pestering me to
vote for the Democrats. Stuck at the bottom of the grocery cart was
a memo a prior shopper had accidentally left behind.
The name of the author was lost under a splotch of what
appeared to be gluten-free, fat-free, sugarless soy yogurt, but I could make
out most of it. Forewarned is forearmed, so I'm sharing it.
A. Our Agenda
5. Global warming is the moral
equivalent of World War II, and all
our people and resources must be mobilized to keep the planet's climate from
changing.
6. Diversity is our strength, and it's okay for people to self-identify
as Indians, blacks, or Hispanics if they want to add to the diverse pool, even if the
diversity is make-believe.
7. Merit is overrated. Equal outcomes are what we
want. (Except in basketball.) Keep bright
students from achieving their potential in public schools.
8. More welfare for everyone, including free
health care. It will cost trillions, but we all know we can keep raising taxes as high as we
need to (except on the countless billions in tax-exempt NGOs who fund what
we want them to fund). And anyway, math is so hard that only
conservatives can figure out this is unworkable, and when they do, we just
attack them as "heartless."
We'll just keep adding to the free pile: universal housing, free
college tuition, universal basic income. (And with open borders, the
"universal" part is really "universal.") We can
continue to count on at least one third of the voters thinking "free"
means someone else will pay for it.
1. Encourage mob
attacks on conservatives. (We
can count on the media to downplay them as they have the attempt to murder the
entire Republican House leadership, beat up Republican leaders, and keep
every conservative from ever dining out.) Heck, the press is still claiming that a right-winger
shot Gabby Giffords. It worked
when a communist shot JFK, and it still works for us. The best part
is this: it keeps people from sticking out their necks to oppose us or defend
dissenters.
2. Make sure mandatory college event fees are paid out only to
left-wing speakers, and if, by chance, any group funds a conservative on campus
with its own funds, demand that the college rescind the
invitation. If it fails to, we start a riot and beat up anyone who dares attend. Free speech
is overrated unless it's ours. We own academia, and let's keep it
that way.
C. Midterm Action Plan
1. We began strong by a highly publicized hearing on Brett
Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court in which we showed America
that no charge is too insubstantial to keep us from using it. (It's
true that "Believe All Women" doesn't apply to Bill Clinton or Keith
Ellison and certainly not to the late Ted Kennedy or Chris Dodd, to name just a
few. But it should be good enough to keep those soccer moms in our
camp.) Pictures of people mobbing the Senate and screaming, pounding
on the doors of the Supreme Court, and linking up again with
sharia-supporter Linda Sarsour, bemoaning the sad new fate which will
befall women now that Kavanaugh has been confirmed, should really nail our
female support, especially since the press so rarely lets women know what she
stands for. It shows how distraught we really are and why they
should be, too, at the confirmation of a man who somebody thinks did something
to her thirty-some years ago, which none of her claimed witnesses substantiate
2. Then there's our plan to tag Trump with the failure to deal
firmly enough with the Saudis. He should geld the Saudi effort to
check Iran, cause a spike in oil to $300 a barrel, and throw out a
$150-billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia because a fake journalist who was
really a Muslim Brotherhood propagandist was killed on Saudi territory in
Turkey. (Ignore the mistreatment by Turkey's Erdoğan, who has placed
300 journalists in prison, or Iran's or China's treatment of any
dissenters). I know that our press pals will stay mum on this, just
as they ignored Obama's silence when journalists were slaughtered
in Charlie Hedbo's offices in
France or American journalist James Foley was beheaded. Right now
they are hoping that reformist Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman will be toppled along with Trump, ignoring the fact that the king
has fired almost the whole leadership of its foreign intelligence
service and put the crown prince in charge of restructuring the
intelligence agency. (Let's keep that development from public
notice.)
Make sure Jewish voters know
nothing about Khashoggi,
especially not his celebrating Hamas and its genocidal war to wipe them out:
Everything in this war is new, including the weapons that entered
Gaza; how did they enter despite the siege? Thousands of rockets
entered a small country that is besieged from the land, sea and
air. This fact alone is a miracle[.] ...
The distinguished combat performance of its men and the huge
network of tunnels that extends for miles under Gaza and the borders with
Israel and Egypt were used brilliantly to inflict unprecedented losses on the
enemy; they will be used and reused whenever the enemy invades. All
of this proves that the movement wasted no time while ruling in Gaza.
This background is important for Arab intellectuals and writers
who, incomprehensibly, have been attacking the notion of resistance in the
ongoing Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza. This strange
phenomenon warrants analysis. Regrettably, the number of such
intellectuals here in Saudi Arabia is higher than average. If such a
trend continues it will destroy the kingdom's honourable claim to support and
defend the Palestinian cause since the time of its founder, King Abd Al-Aziz
Al-Saud[.]
Make certain as well that they and New Yorkers are unaware of
how he
celebrated 9/11, blaming it on
U.S. support for Israel.
D. Latinos
We are embarrassed to learn that we cannot count on the Latino
vote as we thought we could. (There was even a slight snag this week
when Pelosi, along with Castro-lover Democratic congresswoman Barbara Lee,
went to campaign
for Donna Shalala in Miami's Little
Havana, where they received a rude reception.)
Luckily, people like George Soros came up with a master plan – pay
thousands of Hondurans to storm our border, marching through Guatemala and
México. Surely, the picture of those downtrodden (almost entirely
young men) will tug at their heartstrings and make Americans rush to Nancy Pelosi's
view that we should never
build that wall and that
we should just abolish ICE and every effort to close
our borders.
Unfortunately, Trump's message to Guatemala and Mexico that they'd
better not let this happen seems to be paying off, but if they get through,
think of how appealing that will be for still uncommitted voters to hop on the
no-borders-no-ICE train with us.
I was about to toss this in the Whole Foods recycling bin but
decided instead to make it an attachment to my letter to Hillary
Clinton. She says she's considering running again, and I'm
encouraging her to just do it. Keep this agenda alive,
girl. We're counting on you, our own political version of Miss
Havisham.
Democrats Advised Not to Speak About Unpopular Open Borders
Policies: ‘It Is Very Difficult to Win on Immigration’
14 Oct
20183,755
3:13
Democrats
running for re-election in the 2018 midterms are being advised to not speak
about the issue of immigration as consultants admit the zero-enforcement, open
borders positions of the Democrat Party are unpopular with swing voters.
In
a memo obtained by the New
York Times, left-wing consultants with the Center for American
Progress and the think tank, Third Way, advised Democrats running for election
to spend “as little time as possible” talking about the immigration issue
facing the nation, where more than 1.5 million immigrants are admitted to the country every
year.
“Sanctuary attacks pack a punch,” says a four-page memorandum, prepared
by the liberal Center for American Progress and the centrist think tank Third
Way, that has been shared at about a dozen briefings for Democrats in recent
weeks. The New York Times obtained a copy of the memo, whose findings are based
on interviews and surveys conducted over the summer. [Emphasis added]
…
Democrats,
the strategists who prepared the memo advised, could neutralize the attacks if
they responded head-on. But they
should spend “as little time as possible” talking about immigration itself,
and instead pivot to more fruitful issues for Democrats like health care and
taxation. [Emphasis added]
…
“It is very difficult to win on
immigration with vulnerable voters in the states Trump carried in 2016,” the
strategy memo said, arguing that “even the most draconian of Republican
policies,” such as family separation and
threats to deport the Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who were brought to
the United States as children — failed to sway most of them. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News exclusively reported, House
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has given the GOP ammunition to run on
the issue of immigration for the midterm elections, introducing legislation
that fully funds President Trump’s proposed border wall on the U.S.-Mexico
border.
Meanwhile, Democrats have geared up
for the 2018 midterm elections by running on a platform that would abolish
the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which would end all
immigration enforcement across the United States. Three in four swing voters oppose the
Democrats’ “abolish ICE” initiative.
How
unpopular is the Democrats' plan to abolish ICE? 3-in-4 swing voters say they
oppose it. Nearly 70 percent of Americans say they oppose it. https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/01/poll-3-in-4-swing-voters-oppose-democrat-plan-to-abolish-ice/ …
Poll: 3-in-4 Swing Voters Oppose Democrat Plan to Abolish
ICE | Breitbart
Despite
Republican efforts to run on the issue of uninfluential tax
reform, Trump’s immigration reduction plan has sweeping support among not only
Republican voters, but swing voters and black Americans.
In
an April Harvard/Harris Poll, nearly 2-out-3 supported reducing legal
immigration levels to the U.S. In May, 52 percent of swing voters opposed allowing big businesses
to import more foreign workers to compete against their fellow citizens for
coveted blue-collar and white-collar jobs.
Most
specifically, 61 percent of swing voters in battleground districts who saidimmigration has changed their
community claimed those changes are making life “worse” in America.
A
similar CBS/YouGov poll in June found that 55 percent of swing voters in
battleground districts believed the border wall is a
“good idea that can probably be completed” or a “good idea that should be
tried, even if it can’t be completed,” as Trump wants.
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Tell Democrats: Ignore Migrant Caravan
5:08
Democratic leaders are urging their party’s 2018 candidates to ignore migration issues even as the fast-growing caravan of migrants walks northwards through Mexico.
On Sunday, media reports said the caravan has grown to 7,000 people — up from 3,000 last week — and more people are seeking to join the migration.
On Saturday, the Democratic leaders declared “The president is desperate to change the subject from health care to immigration because he knows that health care is the number one issue Americans care about.” The statement from Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer urged Democratic candidates to ignore public worries about the migration:
Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Republicans in Washington are making a mess of our health care system, causing premiums to increase and care to decrease while threatening to gut protections for pre-existing conditions. Democrats are focused like a laser on health care and will not be diverted.
.@realDonaldTrump is desperate to change the subject from health care to immigration because he knows that health care is the #1 issue Americans care about. The GOP is threatening to gut protections for pre-existing conditions. Dems are focused like a laser to #ProtectOurCare.
The Democratic leaders’ advice is likely to be embraced by Democrats and progressives, partly because health care is a top issue for Democratic partisans. But migration and economics are top issues for GOP-leaning voters.
A September poll of 1,228 registered by Harvard-Harris asked respondents to choose their top three issues. Overall, healthcare was picked by 37 percent while immigration was picked by 33 percent as one of the most important issues. Thirty-four percent of independents picked healthcare while 29 percent picked immigration. Twenty-eight percent of moderates picked healthcare while 24 percent of moderates picked immigration as a top-three issue.
But migration is also wrapped up in voters’ concerns about the national security and national security, which were the third-ranked and fourth-ranked priorities.
On October 18, President Donald Trump said the election is about “Kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order, and common sense.” On Sunday evening, Trump Tweeted:
The Democrats’ Saturday statement came as the migrants pushed their way into Mexico, amid passive resistance from the Mexican government and support from sympathetic Mexicans. Late on Sunday, the Associated Press reported:
TAPACHULA, Mexico — A growing caravan of roughly 7,000 Central American immigrants continued its trek toward the United States on Sunday, blowing past Mexican police and immigration officials.,,,Gerardo Hernandez, head of the civil protection agency in the municipality of Suchiate, Chiapas, said that as of Saturday night, 7,233 immigrants had been registered at a shelter in Ciudad Hidalgo.The group formed an imposing bloc as it began to march Sunday. Many Mexicans who live in the area lined the highway, handing out free clothes, sandwiches and bottles of water while cheering the caravan on.
On Sunday, reporters said that more Hondurans want to join the caravan:
Guatemalan journalist @luisassardo just sent me this message from Esquipulas, Guatemala, near the Honduran border:
2,000 more leaving Honduras. Asking for volunteers and donations to help.
A caravan may be marching but the best way to describe this moment is an exodus
Most of the migrants are eager for low-wage jobs, but many are also looking for healthcare, schools, and welfare from U.S. taxpayers. Their goals are a boon to U.S. employers, renters, and retailers, for government aid workers and education officials, and also for elite progressives who wish to display their preference for distant peoples over their fellow nationals.
But the migrants’ goals are an economic burden for blue-collar and white-collar Americans whose wages, federal aid, and education resources will be diverted to aid the migrants.
Watch–Caravan Migrant Says March to U.S. Border Is for Jobs, Not Asylumbreitbart.com/politics/2018/…
The migrants expect to cross the border because many of their relatives have already exploited the catch-and-release loopholes to walk past U.S. border guards and into U.S. jobs. The primary loophole is the 2015 Flores decision, which requires migrants who bring a child to be released before the judicial process ha time to order their deportation.
Throughout 2017 and 2018, Democrats and business-first Republicans in Congress have refused Trump’s pressure to close the loopholes, build a border wall, and fund larger detention centers. They have not even tried to impose penalties on the American companies which fund the migration by hiring the migrants so they can pay their debts to the cartel-affiliated coyotes.
NYT, WashPo, AP now admit the 2nd 'caravan' migrants openly say they are trying to get US jobs, not fleeing from criminal gangs. Media also admits migrants knowingly bring kids to get through the Flores loophole. OK, less media condescension = more truth bit.ly/2CsFYsN
Overall, the Washington-enabled flow of illegal migrants and legal immigrants shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor.
That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. The policy also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.
Immigration also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations living in the coastal states.
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