The Bernie Sanders progressive revolution has been knock-out punched by the Democratic Party establishment.
On the one hand, you had a gay man, Peter Buttigieg drop out of the election and endorse the establishment candidate Joe Biden, surely delivering the power of the LGBT vote, a historically progressive contingent, to Biden. You also had Amy Klobuchar drop out and endorse Biden, which surely helped to deliver Biden the critical support of Amy's home state, Minnesota, an otherwise historic bastion of progressiveness. The move probably also helped Biden capture the support of Amy's zombie-like "I follow women because I am a woman" voters, who were only just as likely to vote for Elizabeth Warren, a progressive whose presence helped to split the progressive vote.
Through the tag-team tag-ins, endorsements and intricacies named above, Biden, the reigning Vice President champion, came out swinging in a crucial round. Aided by his legacy as Barack Obama's sidekick, Biden captured a whopping 60-65% of the Black vote. It was a demographic that the Sanders revolution had struggled with historically, anyway (I suspect this meme actually hits the truth on the head 100%).
Had Warren elected to remain in the race and continue to split the progressive vote, I would assume her to be a Deep State plant or, at the very least, the worst, egotistical depiction of herself that people had expected. Only now does her dropping out give Sanders the slightest inkling of a chance of a comeback. But Biden has probably done enough damage that the establishment can coast the rest of the way now that Michael Bloomberg is also dropping out and likely to endorse him. If need be, Biden has enough votes that the Democratic Party can swing some super-delegate shady stuff to squeak out a victory. In turn, the establishment can breathe easy. As long as the Coronavirus can be contained, with Trump or Biden, Wall Street wins. Trump is business-first enough (1, 2), and Biden is business-first enough (1), that global corporations, investors, traders, the ultra-rich and status-quo pensioners will walk away happy.
It is actually quite bizarre that this is the outcome, given how much Wall Street is loathed outside of that circle of global corporations, investors, traders, the ultra-rich and status-quo pensioners. As evidence of that hatred, this is the top hit on Bing, of 128,000,000 results:
And so, we see an appendage of big tech (Bing, owned by Microsoft) not only failing to censor but even promoting, via its "top-result" feature, an angle of the social justice revolution that could potentially turn that very revolution, which big tech sponsors, against big tech's interests.
What does that tell you about smug confidence, power and control?
On the one hand, you had a gay man, Peter Buttigieg drop out of the election and endorse the establishment candidate Joe Biden, surely delivering the power of the LGBT vote, a historically progressive contingent, to Biden. You also had Amy Klobuchar drop out and endorse Biden, which surely helped to deliver Biden the critical support of Amy's home state, Minnesota, an otherwise historic bastion of progressiveness. The move probably also helped Biden capture the support of Amy's zombie-like "I follow women because I am a woman" voters, who were only just as likely to vote for Elizabeth Warren, a progressive whose presence helped to split the progressive vote.
Through the tag-team tag-ins, endorsements and intricacies named above, Biden, the reigning Vice President champion, came out swinging in a crucial round. Aided by his legacy as Barack Obama's sidekick, Biden captured a whopping 60-65% of the Black vote. It was a demographic that the Sanders revolution had struggled with historically, anyway (I suspect this meme actually hits the truth on the head 100%).
Had Warren elected to remain in the race and continue to split the progressive vote, I would assume her to be a Deep State plant or, at the very least, the worst, egotistical depiction of herself that people had expected. Only now does her dropping out give Sanders the slightest inkling of a chance of a comeback. But Biden has probably done enough damage that the establishment can coast the rest of the way now that Michael Bloomberg is also dropping out and likely to endorse him. If need be, Biden has enough votes that the Democratic Party can swing some super-delegate shady stuff to squeak out a victory. In turn, the establishment can breathe easy. As long as the Coronavirus can be contained, with Trump or Biden, Wall Street wins. Trump is business-first enough (1, 2), and Biden is business-first enough (1), that global corporations, investors, traders, the ultra-rich and status-quo pensioners will walk away happy.
It is actually quite bizarre that this is the outcome, given how much Wall Street is loathed outside of that circle of global corporations, investors, traders, the ultra-rich and status-quo pensioners. As evidence of that hatred, this is the top hit on Bing, of 128,000,000 results:
And so, we see an appendage of big tech (Bing, owned by Microsoft) not only failing to censor but even promoting, via its "top-result" feature, an angle of the social justice revolution that could potentially turn that very revolution, which big tech sponsors, against big tech's interests.
What does that tell you about smug confidence, power and control?
