Round One

PJ Media ^ | 7-24-2015 | Richard Fernandez

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Democrat against Democrat. Republican against Republican. Pretty soon it’ll be Marvel vs DC. What’s driving this outbreak of conflict? Is there a highly contagious, rage-inducing virus in the district water supply? Or are we watching formerly stable political coalitions beginning to fall apart? Here’s the case for collapsing coalitions.

David Wiegel at the Washington Post writes that at least insofar as the Democratic Party is concerned, internal politics is becoming a zero-sum game. He quotes Barney Frank’s roundabout way of asserting that the trouble with today’s Dems is there isn’t enough loot left to simultaneously pay off the black Democratic base and white leftist moonbats. ......

The rich white guys want gay marriage, environmental zoning, immigration, crony capitalism and arugula. Trouble is, if you give these things to the white liberals, it will starve and disgust the black base. The conflict is illustrated in the a quote cited the Washington Post article.

“We’re going to transform the economics in America so that we create millions of decent-paying jobs,” said Sanders in the clip. “We’re going to make tuition at public colleges free.”

“Jobs and college don’t stop the police from killing me!” said a woman in the crowd, audible in the room but not on official videos of the event. “Jobs and college don’t stop the police from killing me!”

The Big Tent was collection of naturally antipathetic interest groups held together by the prospect of other people’s money. For years there was enough to pay off the white part of the tent with enough left over to satisfy the black side of things. Now that the money’s run out they’re fighting for the same slice of pie. That, by definition, is zero-sum.

(Be sure to read the whole article)

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Don't miss these parts about

(1) "fraudulent declaration that Congress is a “small business” (to pay legislators their Obamacare subsidies)

(2) "President Obama illustrated the liberal bipolar disorder by exhorting Kenya to shift to solar power"

and (3) Milo Yiannopolulos of Breitbart argues that the coming years will see everyone set against everyone else and attributes it to identity politics being carried to is logical conclusion.