Yes, Mike Bloomberg, the Democratically Party is a crazy-left snake pit. Many people commenting on last night’s Democratic debate dwelled on Warren’s takedown of Bloomberg and the knife fight between Klobuchar and Buttigieg. I saw it differently. It was a brawl over who is most crazy-left. Combine the back-and-forth with the looney-left audience and you have a debate in an antifa bubble. Mike, face it, you have no place in that cuckoo’s nest.
Ironically and sporadically, the only one to approach sanity on the stage was Bloomberg. Yes, he’s crazy about goofy gun control, he’s a living insult to agriculture, and he’s got a Leninesque streak to control what’s on our kitchen tables. But on some matters – government-run health care, the absurdity of socialism, recognition of the basic responsibility for law enforcement – he was speaking truth to the power of the mob. On those occasions, he was the adult in the room.
Take Elizabeth’s Warren’s play to Bolshevik feminism at Bloomberg’s expense. True, Bloomberg may have been a pig in the workplace (NDA’s anyone?) but she plays up to it to support the aggrandizement of state power to manage more of the intimate details of our lives. I don’t know what’s worse: a male chauvinist or a hyper-left commissar of all interpersonal relations.
The Buttigieg/Klobuchar spat contained some real whoppers. For instance, Buttigieg assailed Klobuchar for voting to confirm Trump’s director of ICE. In that exchange, Buttigieg stepped all over his tongue in claiming that it was only Trump and this official who separated families. No, Pete, when illegal border-crossers with children were taken into custody, the children were separated – under Obama too. You can read about it here.
It became a burgeoning problem when Obama sent signals in thought and action, like DACA, that children can be a transit ticket into the US. Trump became saddled with a growing number of illegals who grabbed a kid, or parents who had one or more at hand, to illegally enter our country. Families became an increasing feature of illegal immigration at the start of the Trump presidency. But don’t interrupt Mayor Pete with facts as he jumps on the party’s train to no borders.
Mike, do you really belong in a party reeking with no-borders socialism and its inevitable cousin of central planning? I would think that last night’s snake pit would be enough for anyone to seek safer political environs. Sorry Mike, your indulgences in money to the party, gun grabs, and your conversion to climate change hysteria apparently aren’t enough to excuse the fact that you’re a rich white guy who can’t quite buy into the socialist fantasies. I don’t know where you belong, unless you’re a fetishistic masochist.
RogerG