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As the title says, the Dems are going to fuck up in 2020 and lose. And this time, it will be their own fucking fault. See, what they don't want you to know is there's a fundamental, irreparable breach in the party structure.
One part of it, and unfortunately the part with all the real power and money, is the corporate wing of the party, the ones who call themselves "moderates" and who, by the standards of any civilized nation, are a center-right, corporatist clusterfuck. These are the dynastic politicians, the Clintons and the Pelosis and so on. Notably, they are what the Republicans used to be until about the mid-90s, and Clinton's so-called "welfare reform" has done more to harm the poor than anything the GOP had done from the Depression up until that point. These people *are* Republicans, and modern Republicans are basically the Christian answer to the Taliban, except too weak and obese and low-testosterone to grow facial hair.
On the other side, we have the ones who are triggering all the RWNJs who infest this site like a bad case of bedbugs: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and so on. You can tell they scare seven shades of shit out of our "friends" on the right wing (wrong wing) because of how much barely-disguised panic they elicit in the form of almost obsessive insults and smears. Make no mistake, the Fox crowd is shitting their Depends (well, more than usual I suppose...) at the idea of them taking over.
Now, because the corporate wing owns the Democratic party, and because they've been fighting the same election campaign battle (1972, if you're curious) for goddamn near half a century, they're going to miscalculate. They're going to run the "safe" choice, Biden. And they're gonna get fucking clobbered. Why? Because the data leading them to even consider Biden as "the safe choice" are massively skewed, ridiculously out of date, and not in line with reality.
The guy's a senile, creepy old ignoramus, and he does not resonate with most of the Democratic voters. I am not one to dump on someone due simply to low Charisma scores, if for no other reason than that I'd have to drag on myself all the damn time. But Biden is toxic. Not just because he's apparently a gross toucher, but he's like Bob Dole and post-Alzheimer's Reagan rolled into one and then given a good beating with the Schlemiel Stick. The corporate wing wants him in charge because he'll keep the gravy train going; he's essentially Dubya for the donkey team. He will obey his handlers, one of whom will likely be Hillary Clinton doing a damn good Dick Cheney impression. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
I predict this is going to come to a head in 2020 with a massive GOP win as the Democrat voter base splits along age and income lines. Honestly, this is nothing more than a reflection of the fact that the corporate Dems are, as I said before, basically Republicans, and this election season is going to make that quite clear. We may, assuming there's anything left to preside over, have a chance in 2024, but who knows what the country will look like by then? Who knows if there's even going to *be* one? This is karma.
One part of it, and unfortunately the part with all the real power and money, is the corporate wing of the party, the ones who call themselves "moderates" and who, by the standards of any civilized nation, are a center-right, corporatist clusterfuck. These are the dynastic politicians, the Clintons and the Pelosis and so on. Notably, they are what the Republicans used to be until about the mid-90s, and Clinton's so-called "welfare reform" has done more to harm the poor than anything the GOP had done from the Depression up until that point. These people *are* Republicans, and modern Republicans are basically the Christian answer to the Taliban, except too weak and obese and low-testosterone to grow facial hair.
On the other side, we have the ones who are triggering all the RWNJs who infest this site like a bad case of bedbugs: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and so on. You can tell they scare seven shades of shit out of our "friends" on the right wing (wrong wing) because of how much barely-disguised panic they elicit in the form of almost obsessive insults and smears. Make no mistake, the Fox crowd is shitting their Depends (well, more than usual I suppose...) at the idea of them taking over.
Now, because the corporate wing owns the Democratic party, and because they've been fighting the same election campaign battle (1972, if you're curious) for goddamn near half a century, they're going to miscalculate. They're going to run the "safe" choice, Biden. And they're gonna get fucking clobbered. Why? Because the data leading them to even consider Biden as "the safe choice" are massively skewed, ridiculously out of date, and not in line with reality.
The guy's a senile, creepy old ignoramus, and he does not resonate with most of the Democratic voters. I am not one to dump on someone due simply to low Charisma scores, if for no other reason than that I'd have to drag on myself all the damn time. But Biden is toxic. Not just because he's apparently a gross toucher, but he's like Bob Dole and post-Alzheimer's Reagan rolled into one and then given a good beating with the Schlemiel Stick. The corporate wing wants him in charge because he'll keep the gravy train going; he's essentially Dubya for the donkey team. He will obey his handlers, one of whom will likely be Hillary Clinton doing a damn good Dick Cheney impression. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
I predict this is going to come to a head in 2020 with a massive GOP win as the Democrat voter base splits along age and income lines. Honestly, this is nothing more than a reflection of the fact that the corporate Dems are, as I said before, basically Republicans, and this election season is going to make that quite clear. We may, assuming there's anything left to preside over, have a chance in 2024, but who knows what the country will look like by then? Who knows if there's even going to *be* one? This is karma.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 29 2019, @09:54PM
Last time it was their fault too for kicking out Sanders the way the did.
This time it will be their fault as well for convincing themselves they didn't do anything wrong last time and it was all Trump's fault.
Next time will probably follow the same pattern.
Oh, and you've terribly miscalculated the nature of the "corporate wing". They're not just "basically republicans". They're corporate sock puppets representing industrial groups that hedge their bets on both parties and would rather see the democrats lose altogether unless they can put one of their own on the ticket by withdrawing their support and supporting the Republicans once they fail the primaries.
And that's what makes either party a loser's bet. Sure, they'll give you net neutrality and make a few green initiatives. But not enough to matter. Only enough to grab you by the balls so you'll keep getting invested in their little team sports. They'll deliberately keep the stuff people care about weakly legislated so every election you're forced to vote on that and only that issue. And then they'll fuck you up in every other possible way. They'll make the worse possible socialized health care so it will always hang at the balance of a budget cut. They'll mess up the education system just enough people won't come out of it with an actual useful skill set but too invested in their graduation diploma that they'll never go against it...
Point is, it's all a pyramid scheme and regardless of who is in power, as long as they have "mainstream" support, they're not part of the solution. They're the fucking problem.