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| Blumenthal and Sanders |
Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders is exciting agita in some
Democrat breasts, and he knows it.
Sanders, who arrived in Springfield, Massachusetts at the
Mass Mutual Center on a wave of primary wins, told enthusiasts in the crowd,
“Some of you may have noticed that the political establishment and the
corporate elite are getting very nervous. You know what? They have a right to
get nervous. We’re going after them.”
Sanders has been going after the Democrat political
establishment and the corporate elite since his 1988 honeymoon days in the Soviet
Union. The political trajectory of the leading Democrat candidate for president
was set in the student revolution days of the 70s. Sanders may be the only live-wire protester of that time who has failed to grow up in the intervening years.
Marxism is an outworn creed; the Berlin Wall fell in 1989; Fidel Castro’s
seemingly endless Cuban Revolution puttered forward when Fidel died, leaving
his brother communist Raul to solider on; the socialist revolution in
Venezuela, once the pearl of Latin American countries, ran out of toilet paper
a few years ago and is now little more than a failed socialist hovel. And yet
Sanders goosesteps -- yes, Virginia, the fascists were also socialists -- on through the rubble.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, a catch basin
for anti-Castro Cubans, hit an obvious nail on the head when he said that Sanders could not be a Democratic-Socialist
because 1) Sanders is not a Democrat, and 2) he is not a Democratic-Socialist in the
manner of modern-day Sweden, which is much friendlier to free markets than Sanders.
The American left stopped thinking about Sweden in the 70s and hardly realizes that
present day Sweden “is the country of pension reform, school vouchers, free
trade, low corporate taxes and no taxes on property, gifts and inheritance.
Sweden affords its big welfare state because it is more free-market and free
trade than other countries. So if they want to redistribute wealth they also
have to deregulate the economy drastically to create that wealth,” according to
Swedish economist Johan Norgberg.
Sanders, Rubio said, is a common variety
Marxist pledged, like Castro and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, to overturn a free market system in
favor of state capitalism, commonly called communism.
Among Democrat establishment figures showing signs of agita
is James Carville, an anti-establishment figure active during the Presidency of
Bill Clinton. Surveying the correlation of forces within his party, Carville
said, “Only two things are going to happen, Bernie or brokered” – meaning
either Democrats will coalesce around an increasingly successful Sanders
presidential campaign or the present Democrat primary will end in a brokered
Democrat convention, during which establishment Democrats lashed by Sanders on
the presidential stump will determine who President Donald Trump’s opponent in
the upcoming 2020 elections will be.
U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal ought to support Sanders, but prudence
has knocked the edge off his valor. “I would support any of the leading
presidential candidates over Donald Trump, but I am not endorsing anyone at
this time,” said Blumenthal. The senior Senator from Connecticut has crawled
very far out on a progressive limb: He
supports Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s
ruinous Green New Deal, as does Sanders and, even though the is a senator from
what used to be called “the insurance capital of the world,” Blumenthal favors a
federal takeover of the insurance industry. His non-enthusiastic support of the
Sanders presidential candidacy has led some to suppose that Blumenthal lacks the
courage of his campaign convictions.
U.S. Senator Chris
Murphy recently told a sycophantic interviewer that he would have no problem
supporting Sanders should he prevail in the Democrat primaries now underway.
Citing Sanders’ enthusiastic supporters, Murphy had said, “I think
Bernie Sanders will beat Donald Trump,”
but he too is waiting to see who Democrats will choose to represent them
against their rhetorical Great Satan of the Democrat Party, President Donald
Trump. Governor Ned Lamont, apparently the sole Democrat politician in the
state with a spine, has pledged his support to former Vice President Joe Biden.
Most other prominent Democrat office holders are waiting for a conclusive vox
populi following the primaries.
As of this writing, former
mayor of South Bend, Indiana Pete Buttigieg has thrown in the towel and the
candidacy of Senator Elizabeth Warren is sputtering, though it has not yet
flamed out. Super Tuesday will further thin the Democrat primary herd. Former
Obama Vice President Joe Biden recovered in South Carolina from a primary
drubbing and, of course, former three-term Republican Mayor of New York Michael
Bloomberg, now a Democrat, has enough cash in his piggy bank to continue his campaign
through what, many believe, may be a brokered convention full of seasoned Democrats
who are not overly enamored of social-democracy; the liberal heirs of President
John Kennedy prefer their democracy unadulterated and straight from the bottle.
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