The Democratic Establishment Strikes Back

After 3 attempts, 32 years, and 5 primaries as a candidate, Joe Biden finally won his first set of delegates in his quest to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. Within hours, the powers that be in the liberal establishment saw their opening and pounced on the remaining candidates, applying pressure to get them to drop out and support Biden.

With no clear path to the nomination for anyone, thanks largely to the screwed up way in which Democrats distribute their delegates proportionally, rather than fight, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg took whatever they were offered as payoff and quit.

What makes no sense is when they did it. Pete quit on Sunday, Amy on Monday. Super Tuesday is, well, Tuesday. With early voting, anywhere from a quarter to a third of the votes on Super Tuesday were already cast. The ballots are in the box, those votes can’t be changed. Anyone who voted for either of those candidates would have been better off writing in their dog’s name.

The primaries are so clustered together because states want their votes to count. Usually, after the first few races, the field starts to thin out because there was time in between votes and losers would see their fundraising dry up. Now, with votes stacked on top of each other, building momentum is much harder.

With early voting, the candidates have already been campaigning and running ads in all the states voting today. In addition to all the early votes they’ve gotten, their names will still appear on the ballots. How many people going to the polls today will not know Pete and Amy dropped out? Not many, but some.

It’s been clear from the start that the Democratic establishment wanted Joe Biden to be the nominee - he was next in line and they’re desperate to recapture whatever good will still exists among Democrats for Barack Obama. And the only thing Joe Biden has going for him is his association with the former President.

So why now? Biden had been Obama’s Vice-President this whole time, so what is new that caused this Godfather-esque “settling of all family business”? That one victory in South Carolina.

Apparently, the powers that be were convinced what was holding Biden back was his lack of wins. Rather than waiting for him to string one of those together, they should’ve set the standard at him stringing one coherent sentence together. His win in South Carolina was expected, the only thing surprising about it was the margin. But it was just one win, in a state he’d always led in the polls. Getting excited by this and consolidating power at this moment is like working to get every other golfer to drop out of the US Open to stop Rory McIlroy because Tiger Woods sank a 3-foot putt on the 3rd hole.

There is no guarantee Joe Biden has what it takes to win the nomination. Throughout his career, the biggest obstacle he’s faced has been himself. He’s a horrible campaigner, gets basic facts wrong, lies about easily disproven events from his own life, forgets where he is and what he’s running for, has a bad temper, and appears on the verge of sleep when most candidates would be feeding off the energy of the crowd. What’s sad is, of the remaining candidates with a chance of winning, at age 77, Biden is the youngest candidate left.

If this Democratic primary were a fiction book it would be published as a parody.

“A communist, a billionaire, and a man suffering early stages of dementia walk into a polling place…” sound like the set up to a bad joke because it is, just not one meant to be deliberately funny. That any of those people could end up being the nominee of a major political party and stand a chance of becoming President of the United States is a joke that is on all of us.

Tonight, we’ll have a better idea of whether or not this flexing of party muscle will work; if the party power structure’s preferred candidate has a shot at preventing the party’s non-party member candidate from winning their nomination. But it’s becoming more and more likely that no one will win the nomination through the voters, leaving it to a fight at the convention.

The funniest part of all of this, if you can call it funny, is it all could have been avoided. If one candidate had stood up to Bernie’s radical agenda rather than ape it, the consolidation the Democratic establishment is pushing now wouldn’t have been necessary or forced. They all offered their own version of Bernie-lite; Biden did too. That leaves Democratic voters a choice between a veggie burger and a pile of dried leaves on a bun. Neither is appealing to the other, and whichever side loses will likely be inclined to skip the meal altogether. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.

The clutch of endorsements by failed Democrat candidates for Joe Biden reveals a deep anxiety born of a new understanding of the mortal threat to the life of the Democrat party presented by Bernie Sanders, a threat that goes beyond the sheer numbers piling up in a trump victory which will likely cost the Democrat party down ballot races.

The old pros of the Democrat establishment understand that a Bernie Sanders candidacy represents a mortal threat to them but the really savvy old Democrat pros know that a Bernie Sanders presidency is perhaps an even greater threat to their occupancy of the swamp. Sanders is not a Democrat even so it is not that Bernie resides outside the strict definitional contours of the Democrat party as a socialist or a democratic socialist, it has to do with Sander's philosophy. Sanders is a true believer, he is a communist, a Marxist, a revolutionary who wants to overturn our entire political system which means that he will turn out Democrats as soon as he will turn out trump Republicans.

All leftist revolutionaries dispose of useful idiots as an immediate first step upon obtaining power. The list is long, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Maduro, and so on. That is not to submit that Bernie will resort to murder, but he will resort to extraordinary moves to substitute his own base for the corrupt present-day Democrat power structure. The bulk of his voters understand this to be the whole point of his candidacy. So if Bernie is denied the nomination, it is almost as bad for them as if he were defeated in the election because they equate the power structure of the Democrat party with the established power structure of the swamp. They mean to destroy both power structures and put themselves in its place. They think this is a noble crusade but we all know that it will end in tears. It will end in tears for them as they are disposed of as useful idiots and it will end in tears for the whole nation.

The Democrat party establishment, not unlike the Republican establishment, is in business, an enterprise that we conservatives should see for exactly what it is, a business. The Democrats are clever, they introduce race, women's rights, gay issues etc. into the mix to make the whole operation appear as something other than a business. For decades, before Donald Trump, the Republicans appeared as the party of business, that is, a party that existed to protect the world of business. The clever Democrats managed to appear as the party of the aggrieved, hence, the race hustles, the madness of the women's issues, the tribalism etc. all the while in reality the Democrats sold out to Wall Street and any other power organization, often funded with public monies, such as teachers unions who could contribute the money and the numbers to keep them in business.

Trump exposed much of this when he attacked the trade deals and open immigration which favored both parties whose principals got fatter and fatter as they sold America to China. We saw the reaction in both parties to the effrontery of Donald Trump in announcing the Emperor has no clothes. The rush to resurrect Joe Biden, a dead man walking, is a desperate move to divert the electorate away from these realities and onto some shiny object.

So the Democrats have chosen the lesser of two evils, a loss with Joe Biden is to be preferred to a loss, or even a victory, with Bernie Sanders. If they nominate Biden, the Sanders base revolts. If they nominate Bernie, the whole country revolts-including much of the Democrat party base we often referred to as Reagan Democrats, lunch pail Democrats, deplorables, or just plain working people. I believe the Democrat establishment would rather fight a smaller war against Bernie's base and leave fewer bodies on the field. They are acting to contain down ballot losses which they believe will be greater under Sanders than under Biden. Sanders will nationalize the election and the whole Democrat party will go down with him. Biden will be cut loose and every Democrat will run an individual, localized race with a better chance of survival.

Bernie's base will insist that this is a nationalized election and it will suck every Democrat candidate into the vortex. Win or lose, the Democrat establishment is in mortal peril. For the Democrat establishment it ain't personal, it's just business.

Wow what a Great Post.

I have the attention span of a 6 year old with severe ADD and it held me to the end.

Bernie IS a communist and even if HE maybe isn’t willing to put people out of their misery, WE KNOW that the white college kids and grads would set up death camps without BLINKING.

YES, a lot of people on the right have guns.

I grew up around gangsters. Not a whole lot of people with guns will use them in a fight.

And fear and complacency will keep others out of the fight.

300 million guns are only worth something if a lot of Patriot are willing to pull the trigger to off a human.

Not all are.

Again, Great Post. Maybe the most well written and thought out one i’ve read in a while.

FR is pretty good in the middle of the night to early mornings sometimes :)

Before the masses come :)

Not that I don’t love the masses!!

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