During the run-up to the 2016 presidential election that would deliver Donald Trump as our 45th president, I wrote several posts about the neoliberal Democrat Hillary Clinton, like this one. That followed Bernie Sanders’ first bait-and-switch, where Bernie “I’m going to deliver a revolution” Socialist Sanders turtled, dropped-out, and endorsed a corporatist in Clinton.
We all know the end-game, don’t we? And yet, duped progressives again threw significant support behind Bernie’s faux revolutionary rhetoric and Democratic Socialism once more. Is it any surprise that the result was basically the same yet again?
Blame it on the Orange Man.
Because most Americans are binary to a fault, they can’t get their brains around the idea that Sanders was a Socialist sham. I mean here was a 78-year-old white guy who hadn’t held a job outside politics since 1980, when he was elected for the first time as mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
Democrats have one narrative trope and one only: blame it all on the Orange Man. Actually that’s become a Democratic cliché.
Question: Who caused the coronavirus pandemic?
Democrat: The Orange Man.
Whatever the problem is, the Democrat scapegoating will always lead back to the Orange Man. Both CNN and MSNBC, the “liberal” equivalent to Fox News has gavel-to-gavel coverage of the latest “bad” that the Orange Man has done, or whatever incorrect thing he’s said that day, rehashed over the week, magnified for months, and dating backwards a year or longer.
That’s not to say that the Orange Man should be anyone’s choice for a model of how to live one’s life, or a mentor, or hero. But, how about turning the record over, eh?
Democrats have united behind another old white guy. Joe Biden. Biden’s kind of “creepy” don’t you think? Google “Joe Biden” and “Creepy” and see what comes up.
Since Democrats have no purpose in life other than defeating the Orange Man in November or whatever month we decide it’s safe to vote, that’s the choice. The Orange Man, or Pervy, Creepy Joe.
And the response from “legitimate” journalistic sources is this garbage, with Democrats again excusing their white male from being held responsible for sexual assault (like they did with Bill Clinton). At least one Democrat’s not sweeping this shit under the rug. This publication asks, why are the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Nation taking a man’s word over a women’s? Come on drive-by, be better! Objectivity isn’t covering-up the bad things on your side of the ideological divide.
Oh, yeah. We gotta’ get to the ice cream thing.
Enough of the old white guys. An old white gal, Nancy Pelosi, seems to think it’s okay to show-off two refrigerators that cost slightly less than I’ll make in my primary job this year, stocked full of bougie ice cream. Can you say, “tone deaf”?
Nancy “Antoinette” Pelosi says, “Let them eat ice cream”
Nancy and most of her corporate Democrats don’t give a rat’s ass about people like you and me, those of us who don’t live in gated communities and wonder what the hell we’re going to do if the economy doesn’t find a road back to something approximating normalcy, any time soon.
But of course, just keep blaming the Orange Man.