Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselve
Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders and cast themselves as saviors
Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?
ANIS SHIVANI
This week, on the night of the Indiana primary, I read one of the most loathsome political screeds it has been my misfortune to encounter.
It was an alarm bell raised by Andrew Sullivan, arguably the greatest hypocrite of the Bush era, on par with his partner in many crimes Christopher Hitchens (remember Islamofascism?). Sullivan proclaims that the election of Trump would be an extinction-level event. Well, perhaps it will be.
But the extinction Sullivan is most worried about is clearly that of his own breed of callous elites, who could care less about normal human beings who do not have decent jobs and who live in crappy housing and who are so desperate to find a way out of the trap that even someone like Trump starts sounding rational to them.
Now this panic alert, designed to get us in line behind Hillary, is raised by the man who ended The New Republic as we knew it (which then went on to end and then end again), promoting racist and imperialist dogma during his reign at the magazine in the 1990s, and then, with his finger in the wind (which to him and that other arch-hypocrite Hitchens meant being like George Orwell), turned into one of the biggest shills for the war on terror, the Iraq war, the whole works, all the while denouncing the fifth column within our ranks. This so-called journalist, who has no record of liberal consistency, who keeps shifting to whoever holds moral power at any given moment, is scaring us about the mortal threat that is Trump.
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/06/our_awful_elites_gutted_america_now_they_dare_ring_alarms_about_trump_sanders_and_cast_themselves_as_saviors/
Squinch
(51,094 posts)irisblue
(33,067 posts)interview on 5/6/16 are infuriating.
Jemmons
(711 posts)They seem to underestimate the vast difference between the core beliefs of the democratic party and the "new democrats". It was a rude awakening when Hillary almost lost Iowa and later big states like Michigan and Indiana. But it will be nothing compared to the shock they will feel if enough core voters abandon ship and she looses in the general election.
It is strange that they are so blind to this. Their assumptions and predictions have been so wrong that you would think that they would notice. But so far they seem to have made no adjustments.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)That's all that will be left of the party--and not a hell of a lot of people would vote for that crap.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Last Gasp...maybe. I hope not...
Some have thought if we had elected McCain/Palin the "Crash of Values" would have become more apparent and we could have gotten the Oligarchs and the Rest of the Trash out sooner ....
But, the Counter Argument is that the American People who got "Over Mortgaged" and "Credit Carded Debted" would have suffered so badly that photos on CNN of starving Americans, thrown out of their homes and photos of Starving Children, the "New Homeless" living under bridges and raiding Dumpsters for Food would have just been....TOO MUCH. It would have interfered with Celebrity Culture of Kardashians and Bruce Jenner and the Most Important Social Issues of Today for the Wealthy and Entitled would have been put on the "Back Burner."
We Can't have that in our American Culture. Only the Rich and Entitled are allowed to survive along with the Poor who appear on Jerry Springer and fight over their Kids Paternity.