Among the errors implicit there... ?
Both parties are corrupt... which doesn't make them equally corrupt, or that "all of the time" or the same ?
Both parties had an opportunity, post 9/11 and post 2008... to address their issues. Both failed.
On the left... the Occupy Wallstreet movement had some real potential... but pissed it all away in orgasms of ideological bullshit. It never did accomplish more than annoy people by trashing public spaces... to "generate awareness" they already had... and do nothing meaningful about it. Save the planet by texting xxxx to yyyy?
On the right... the battle was directly engaged between the entrenched corruption of the uni-party... from the grassroots... by activism that changed the outcome of elections. Not all of that was pretty... but, Democracy isn't supposed to be... never has been... shouldn't be all and only a gentleman's club.
Trump clearly isn't that much of a gentleman. It's part of what makes him successful. He's got the blue collar appeal Bloomberg can't buy, while trying. Most of what pisses off Democrats... is that he should be in their camp... but, there are good reasons he isn't ? Instead... he's slowly eroding the Democrats core base... the defections becoming more than a rumor this cycle... and that trend is accelerating... will be more in the future, because of how the response has alienated them all the more with patronizing platitudes that are clearly phony.
That he's a Republican... isn't the choice of the Republican establishment ? Until this election, the Republican establishment were still Trumps primary opponent, and the only one that presented any real threat to his political survival. But, the Republican establishment didn't have the means to resist him ? Because... they were already compromised... making it easy to beat them at the polls with simple truths. This cycle... those FEW who are not already ushered out... like Paul Ryan... are more intent on testing the breezes behind them instead of the headwinds... and they are capitulating.
Whether Trump wins his contests or not... those R's elected this cycle... are TRUMP Republicans and mostly NOT recycled garbage from the old regime... that still controls the Democrats...
Trump is not the "end state" of that change in process on the right. He's just a guy who leaped in front of a parade that others blindly refused to admit existed. Otherwise, almost everything the left says about it, and about him, is entirely about defending their own corruption (and nothing else)... from the risk of that perception that the other side is actually succeeding in rooting out that problem on the right... and are now closer than evern to winning the outright ability to force it being rooted out on the left, too...
Gerrymandering... following this election... ensures the R's (now the Trump Party) will re-write lines to make that happen in 2 years... "that" still not being about R's beating D's... as much as about R's fixing their own problem... shoring up the foundations... while still leaving D's saddled with their incapacity to do so.
The solution for Democrats is simple... Fix the problem in your own party... or die.
Thus far... Democrats are choosing to defend the fraud, to protect the corruption of the few... while allowing the CIA to choose who controls the party for them... and then going insane when that choice fails ?
So, Democrats are set up now... already crossing the lines trying to impose speech control ? Not just trying to "silence the right"... but ensuring YOU don't step out of line and try to elect... Gabbi or Pete... who might not be corrupt enough for them ?
None so blind... |
