On Super Tuesday (yesterday), the Democratic Party may have stepped from the brink of a full-throated endorsement of truth-in-labeling. Appearances matter a lot, and most Dem voters seemed appalled at appearing to fondle a cranky septuagenarian holdover from the days of Tom Hayden and the SDS. They seem to want their socialism in an accumulation of smaller doses and without the “socialism” title. Comrade Sanders scraped a few wins in hard-left bastions (read California) and lost in many other locales that turned out to be more hospitable to another doddering septuagenarian of the plodding socialism-lite wing. A Super Tuesday vote for slow motion socialism?
When that great uncle, fresh from the dementia unit in a chronic care facility, becomes a party’s alternative to the ranting great uncle at Thanksgiving dinner, you know that the Dem bench is nearly empty. They both are nuts: one literally so, and the other a lifetime believer in falsehoods.
One wants to replicate the carnage of a long-dead Swedish socialism, thinking that the adjective “democratic” makes it all better, while extolling the virtues of totalitarian health care and literacy campaigns for the purpose of mind control. After all, Castro, Maduro, and Lenin can’t be all that bad … he says.
The other wants to dial back from “11” – to, let’s say, “9” – every one of the half-baked ideas to ooze out of the minds of the Squad and that good ol’ SDS crank. Instead of a real Green New Deal, the other wants a lime-green one. Instead of a full-on Medicare for All, he proposes a more haphazard government takeover but will, over time, eventually transform all health care workers into government employees. As for any damaging fallout, well, another group of government employees will be hired to clean up the mess, ad infinitum. Take each childish blathering of AOC and he will adopt it … but add a little water.
So, Dems, you have a choice between honest and damaging socialism and honest and damaging socialism-lite. And while you’re at it, vote to make pre- and post-natal abortion, along with gun confiscation, a commonplace. Both the honest fool and the demented one insist on it. They only differ in the amount of lead on their throttle-pressing foot.
RogerG