Hillary Clinton, September 9, 2016:
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it.”
Clinton slimed an entire demographic for mere partisan political advantage. Well, I’d like to inform Ms. Clinton that “deplorables” exist in her own party. They were on display in South Carolina last night. It was an extremely ironic episode in shaming Bernie for his “socialism” while the other 6 advanced different degrees of it. Medicare For All, the Green New Deal, Free…, named and unnamed boosts in taxes, open borders, etc., are, in their own ways, heralding a socialist future.
To add to the irony, 2 billionaires were on the stage. How could big-moneyed men be so socialistic, whether under Steyer’s environmental radicalism or Bloomberg’s nanny statism/gun grabs/Green New Deal? They’re either grossly ignorant or simply pathetic.
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn in his The Red Wheel series on the Russian Revolution recounts a realistic conversation in 1916 between Lenin and Alexander Parvus, a long-time socialist (indeed, “democratic socialist” as they all called themselves, and was the title of Lenin’s publication, Social Democrat) and successful businessman. In Solzhenitsyn’s rendering, Parvus concocted the scheme of enlisting the financial help of Kaiser’s Germany to fund Lenin’s seizure of power in Russia. German money, indeed, kept the Bolsheviks afloat in Russia as a revolutionary enterprise in 1916 and 1917. Parvus was rich – like Bloomberg and Steyer – and was free with his money to advance the cause.
Lenin’s old trope about using the money from the rich to buy ropes to hang them would be quite appealing to Bernie bros. But why are Mike and Tom so eager to walk under the noose? The contradiction is so glaring that the only practical conclusion is that they are fools.
That’s another reason to keep the whole gang from ever getting close to the White House.
Watch the debate highlights below.
RogerG