I read the NYT article on how the Clinton campaign plans to beat Trump.
The thing that immediately struck me on why they’re going to lose is their plan to delve deep into polling data on why Trump was succeeding where he has and co-opt it.
None of the political establishment, left or right, gets it. Bernie supporters are as livid as those on the right but arguably for the wrong reasons.
The one thing the Occupy crowd and the Tea Party has in common is that they are both sick of the establishment and status quo. Believe it or not they are the same coin but different sides of it.
The Occupy crowd sees business and corporations as the issue. They’re half right. All of their targets are all beneficiaries of an oligarchy and being deeply in bed with the government through self-serving bills written by lobbyists and passed with glowing “Good for business.” PR statements.
The Tea Party sees an overreaching government hindering small business and going against the wishes of their votes intent. They react to open borders and a lack of real opportunity where talent, competitive capitalism and money are centered around government favored companies written by lobbyists and passed with glowing “Good for business.” PR statements.
Both sides love Bernie and Trump for much the same basic principle big money and absolute power has corrupted politics absolutely. However the left has not come up with enough testicular fortitude to overthrow their old guard. There is still enough belief that Clinton is a savior even though their much heralded Bill never won a term with a majority of the popular vote. He waltzed into his first term with 44% of that vote.
Polls will never substitute for leadership. Republicans ignored the polls to the point of their own demise and Democrats, being the good socialists/authoritarians they are, just believe the right people haven’t interpreted it yet.
The left sees business cronies corrupting government, while the right sees government cronies corrupting business. The commonality between the two are the cronies and their law breaking and dishonest behavior. The entire left right two party game is to get you to support one side of the Crony coin. The end result now is that the Crony coin has a debt value of 19 trillion.
Bernie's folks don't want open borders either because of high unemployment among black and Hispanic youth and hordes of immigrants drive down wages.