Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Middle Of The Road For President?

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Who should be next in the popular series, "The Worst Democraps Who Want To Be President?" Part III, at the end of November, was all about multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg. A mutual friend tells me he wasn't pleased with what I wrote about him. I'm sure he's gotten over it. Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that he's still mullin' whether or not to run. I hope he asks people who don't stand to make small fortunes if he does run. The Post report indicated that he thinks he has some kind of clue about what Democrats want. "I think," he claimed, "most Democrats want a middle-of-the-road strategy. They want to make progress, but they’re not willing to go and to push something that has no chance of ever getting done and wasting all their energy on that." What a pitiful clown!

Like Biden, Bloomberg is a tired old centrist with no vision and nothing to offer the country. And, like Trumpanzee, he thinks it would be just awesome to be president.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos


Bloomberg, of course, was referring to Bernie's platform-- i.e., things people want, like free state universities, Medicare-For-All, $15 minimum wage, etc. You know some of the other things that have been pushed by visionary progressive Democrats, each and every one of them something Bloomberg would have deemed to have "no chance of ever getting done" and wasting all that energy on? Let's skip the American Revolution, since there can be no doubt which side Squire Bloomberg would have been on. Also might as well skip the Bill of Rights. However, there was a time when free public education was looked at as an insane unattainable dream, a unicorn, not to mention land grant universities, yet each of them came into being after great battles between progressives and conservatives. And, of course, ditto for the whole concept of a minimum wage, which people like Bloomberg didn't just not want to waste money on, but had workers who demanded a minimum wage murdered. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were all deemed "impossible, out of the question" by people like Bloomberg and each was a struggle to achieve against all odds.

A few other "impossible" things progressives achieved by fighting people like Michael Bloomberg: food safety, the breakup of monopolies, the 8 hour workday, rural electrification, the emancipation of the salves, civil rights for minorities and then voting rights for minorities. None of those things grew on trees-- and none were achieved by a rich shit-head who thought they were too utopian to waste any energy on. How about consumer protection? Cleanup of water and air? Consumer protections? Workplace safety? The weekend? Do you think any of those things came easy? Thank God we had people unlike Michael Bloomberg fighting to make them realities. Michael Bloomberg would be an absolute catastrophe as a Democratic Party nominee. Why doesn't he run as a Republican again?

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10 Comments:

At 1:18 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Which middle? The Overton window middle, which has democraps occupying the space that once belonged to RepubliKKKans while the GOP are even much further to the right, or the real center, which is well to the left of the democraps?

I personally don't think that anyone in either position to be suitable for the needs of the nation. We need a new FDR (no obamanations need apply), not another poor excuse for a corporatist lackey to betray us to the wealthy once again.

 
At 2:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

He was always an asshole, edmondo. The kind of piece written depends on if DWT is feeling sheepdoggie or truthie that day.

"A few other "impossible" things progressives achieved by fighting people like Michael Bloomberg: food safety, the breakup of monopolies, the 8 hour workday, rural electrification, the emancipation of the (slaves), civil rights ...and then voting rights for minorities... Cleanup of water and air? Consumer protections? Workplace safety? The weekend?"

I would note:
Since 1980, the corporate and billionaire plan has been:
1) undo all of these reforms, most by FDR and the truly left Democratic party; the rest by LBJ and same.
2) allow democrap placeholders (Clinton and obamanation so far) to pause the ongoing undoing of all these things... but never allow a democrap to reverse them.

As long as idiot voters keep electing democraps instead of insisting on truly left/progressive people, this shall be the trend vector until all of those things, and many more, are destroyed and we are socially returned to the wild west where corporations and the money own and run everything except localized interactions.

Bloomberg would just be another placeholder. But since he's one of those billionaires who run things, I doubt he'd even pause anything. Obamanation didn't pause anything. We lost civil and voting rights under his admin, and he didn't do or say shit about it.

 
At 2:38 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is just tiring to see what's happened to the Democratic party establishment and this centrism. I will vote for Trump if a real progressive is not on the Democratic ticket.

 
At 3:46 PM, Blogger hester said...

Did you vote for him in 2016? The planet doesn't thank you for voting for Trump. The democrats ain't the best, but the planet.... come on man...

 
At 4:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hester, I don't like your "holier-than-thou" attitude. I did not vote for Trump in 2016, but, I will in 2010, not because I like him, but against the Dem Establishment. And, yes, for many, Trump is slightly less worse than the Dem establishment pols. At least, Trump has not started any new wars that the Dem establishment pols had already started. On the other hand, if Hillary were to have become the president, she would have started new wars to show how "tough" she is. Yes, its "humanity" that's at stake and will thank me in 2010.
This Trump hatred that DWT continues on this blog ad nauseam has become a joke. Just because Trump has bad manners? Other than his manners, Trump and the Dem establishment pols are largely no different. But, DWT and that Noah guy are beyond perceiving these nuances.

 
At 7:51 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I did not vote for Trump in 2016, but, I will in 2010 . . ."

See you yesterday, Ace!

 
At 6:21 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great catch Einstein at 7:51AM. Now, that really proves that the Dem Establishment is indeed so much better than Trump.

 
At 7:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

6:50 AM. Finally, a very well-thought out post. And yes, I do understand and agree with everything that you've mentioned in your post. In fact, I voted for Dr. Jill Stein in 2012 and 2016. I voted for President Obama in 2008, but within 2 months after his election, it was clear that his presidency was going to be the third term of President W. Bush. Despite agreeing with you, I am tired of seeing the Centrists/Corporatists dictate the Dem establishment. And, the Dem establishment hates the Left even more than does the GOP establishment. All said and done, the Dem party will ensure that the Green party never flourishes........I leave it at that, as I am tired of typing and no one really changes their opinions or others' opinions due to comments on a dysfunctional blog like this one.

 
At 10:49 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The dem VOTERS have been the ones who have prevented truly left parties/movements. It is the voters who keep the corrupt democrap party empowered and, thus, keep the Greens a weak minority.

Voters, *ONLY* voters could change that.

Disgruntled lefty voters voting for Nazis will never change that either.

I see we've long forgotten the lessons learned by the Germans in the late '20s. Too bad.

Once again, Santayana is proven prescient.

 
At 1:47 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

6:21

Who was running for president in 2010?

Now go back to sleep and we'll call you when your milk and cookies are on the table.

 

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