Posted on 06/26/2019 7:24:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tonight, the debates for the Democratic Nomination for president of the United States will begin. Not one, but two glorious nights of NBC’s new, not ‘Must See TV’, but ‘Well, If the Yankee Game Is Rained Out and There Isn’t A Three Stooges Marathon On, Kinda Sorta Gotta See TV!’
Presidential races and nominating contests are supposed to be about the presentation of new ideas. Means by which we can move beyond existing problems facing our country, both real and perceived. Instead we are to be treated to a contest of who can bring something superficial and meaningless, yet new to the political scene.
The current state of the Democratic Party is one committed not to the best interest of the country as a whole, but instead, a parade of identity politics. The differences we have been told repeatedly, and correctly, do not and should not matter.
And when that sort of political approach takes hold, the true issues of substance become watered down into bland nothingness. True issues like rising student loan debt, Iranian aggression, government overreach, all become secondary or even tertiary concerns. Once these issues become merely a backdrop to the identity politics show they’re reduced to mere interchangeable pieces and often insignificant parts. The candidate with the popular superficial qualities simply appropriates the ideas of the more insightful but less “made for the stage candidate” rather than vice versa.
This problem becomes ever more compounded with the current state of the race to not only unseat but tear down President Trump. Virtually every mainstream media report on a candidate’s every move is qualified with a race, gender, age, or sexual orientation description.
The current nomination fight is nothing more than a race to the left. Which candidate can get to the furthest extreme the fastest? Free college, free income, free health insurance (not to be confused with health care). Who can promise the most for nothing? And then each will simply parrot the other. Then judgment will be rated on the basis of the identity factors of the people who said the same thing.
The debates, assuming you can still call them “debates,” will be 15-second soundbites of tired and predictable rhetorical catchphrases. “Existential threat,” “No one is above the law, even the President,” and “Russia, Russia, Russia” will doubtlessly and countlessly be echoed by each “debater” until one is declared the winner based on how loud and how often they shout these tired talking points. And of course, their identity factor and victimhood score.
There exists no discernable difference of ideas or principles among the candidates, at least not since John Delaney and John Hickenlooper were both loudly booed off stage last week. Both had the audacity to denounce socialism at the California State Democratic Convention. The nerve of them!
If all the candidates are promising the same thing, what, really, is the difference between any of them substantively? One might as well judge the candidates based solely on the things, we, as Americans, should deem unimportant. All the identity factors they proudly tout. As a former presidential candidate once declared, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” Perhaps used in a different context, but still quite relevant.
So, let the Identity Politics Pageant commence. And pray the baseball games aren’t rained out.
With so many running, I don’t even know who half of these people are.
Who is Eric Swallwell(sp?)?? But as a white presumeably heterosexual male, he is low man on the totem pole.
So what distinguishes them?
Bernie Sanders is openly socialist
Pete Buttgig(sp?) is openly homosexual
Kamala Harris has mixed ancestry so she’s also a proud non-white candidate.
Cory “Spartacus” Booker and Castro from San Antonio are proud members of minority groups.
Elizabeth Warren is a woman.
I’m sure they will all agree on one issue, that Trump is Hitler, Trump is the greatest threat to world peace who has ever lived.
I’ll bet even that group of crazies could figure out that some of the far left goals just can’t work.
I’m reminded of Robert De Niro in “Wag the Dog” telling Dustin Hoffman that the conflict they are faking to save the President isn’t a war, “It’s a pageant.”
There is going to be a year and a half of this stuff
get your popcorn ready
I’m sure I’ll reach my nausea overload point inside of 30 minutes, but I’m going to watch this dumpster fire for schadenfreude purposes anyway.
It will be ALL identity politics, SJW spew and derision for Trump and us deplorables.
Non-stop.
And, to top it off, they will try to out do each other on those fronts.
Plus free everything.
First question for Warren:
“You want open borders and refuse to help fix our broken immigrations system. The Green card holder from your state killed 7 biker veterans, how does it feel that he wasn’t sent packing as the law permits, are you pleased about this leniency allowing him to stay and kill Americans?”
Next question:
Why do you want to kill American babies but protect illegal alien babies?
After a bunch of anguish, gnashing of teeth and a few thoughts of suicide, I’ve decided the rat debate is not worth breaking my 11 year habit of not watching TV.
There’s likely to be a “live” thread here on FR. I can get enough enjoyment from that to keep me amused.
Yeah I did see it
He should be send back to were he came from after he served his prison sentence. I do hope the took his Green Card away.
I would take Biden out if i was one of the lesser candidates, show three stills of his hand on a breast of three different young girls and say, he has a serious molesting problem and we don’t need another democrat molester in the wh.
Its that disneyworld?
Eric Swallwell is the recipient of Mayor Peter Puffer’s affections.
Drinking game for every time:
Harris mentions she was a booty call, err prosecutor
Booker mentions reparations
Sanders mentions free stuff
Petey boy mentions his “husband”
Biden gropes, touches, hugs someone
Liz mentions free stuff
Double shot for every time Trump is called a racist, homophobe, bigot, misogynist, existential threat
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