The fault lines within the Democrat Party should be obvious to everyone.
The Democrat Party left, best caricatured by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had a diminished presence at the Democrat National Virtual Convention. AOC’s spiel was only a minute long, 14 minutes less that anyone else’s “15 minutes of fame.” A Republican Party Benedict Arnold, former Ohio Governor John Kasich, was given 4 minutes at the Democrat virtual convention to fume over the titular head of the Republican Party – until he can be impeached, again – President Donald Trump.
Biden’s tightrope walk over a leftist-socialist ravine was lucidly
described by Jeff Weaver, a top advisor to socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie
Sanders.
“The efforts to attract support from people like Kasich,” Weaver said,
“are part of building an electoral coalition; it's not the governing coalition…
We certainly have seen no backsliding on the substance’ of the issues that the
Biden and Sanders camps agreed to.”
Weaver fully expects Biden, should he be elected president,
to govern in accordance with leftist precepts. To govern, however, one must
first be elected to office. Once elected, Biden will be able – to vary a phrase
that passed from President Barack Obama’s lips to then Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev’s ears – to govern “with more flexibility” than may be suggested by an
intentionally misleading campaign.
Presidential campaigns, during which campaigners issue
promises they have no intention of fulfilling once in office, can be terribly
restricting, but the restrictions and campaign promises are easily shed once
one achieves high office. Trump is the only president in modern times that has
incorporated his campaign promises into his presidential polity, one of the
reasons he is so strenuously opposed by the usual professional
politicians. The Biden campaign will
attempt to expropriate Trump’s successful policies – only for campaign purposes.
The strings and pulleys of the new model Democrat progressive party have been
yanking Democrats to the left for years. And if one asks “Who really is running
the show?” the honest answer is progressives of every shape and hue.
We are told in an LA Times story that Weaver,
Sanders’ Minister of Information, “was deeply involved in the intraparty
negotiations both this time and four years ago.” Weaver said that the way Biden's
camp “reached out and worked” to forge agreements with Sanders on much of
the party platform leaves him with ‘no concerns.’"
All the socialist sulfur bubbling under the surface of
Democrat politics might have been effectively suppressed by a genuine convention
in which real delegates on a real convention floor might have taken a part in
shaping a real convention platform. But, Coronavirus providing a convenient pretext, Democrat Party
leaders were able to tuck under the bed real delegates, real floor debates, and
real political struggles, settling instead upon a convention like no other, a
virtual convention in which political stars designed their own virtual
political musical involving a great deal of contrapuntal pretense.
The play’s book was written by Biden associates and the so
called “moderate” wing of the Democrat Party -- the Kasich wing? -- but the
music has been written by leftists, resulting in massive discordancy. There is
not a single line in the Democrat
Party platform that does not bear the imprint of Sanders and Weaver.
No Bidenist, Weaver was yet able to pull a compliment out of Sanders’ socialist hat. "What Vice President Biden has been able to demonstrate,” he said, “is the breadth of his electoral coalition, the formation of a popular front" against Trump.
The “popular front”, it should be noted, was a temporary
alliance between communists and socialists in countries in which communists had
not yet seized power. Where communists did seize power, they quickly supplanted
socialists, driving them from the political field. Both Stalin and Trotsky
opposed the whole notion of a popular front because the imposture softens the
communist iron fist in the velvet glove. The popular front was never
democratically popular, and it was a “front” in every sense of the word,
meaning a militaristic revolutionary front and a democratic false front, a
proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Democrats have been unwilling to separate the protesting wheat from the violent tares because they wish by association to conflate the two -- for political purposes -- and use violence of every kind to drive Trump from office.
Will the imposture work?
That is the undecided question. Certainly Marxist storm-troopers engaged in
burning McDonald’s, assaulting police officers with cement filled bottles,
leading “protesters” in shutting down police stations, the left’s new
Bastilles, liberating stores in
Washington DC and Los Angeles of Gucci
bags, and establishing separate sanctuary safe zones in Seattle,
will not fall for the false campaign front.
Unification of the nation was the grand meme of the Democrat
virtual convention. Biden was presented as the party’s light-bringer and unifier,
an invigorated Prometheus driving out the darkness of the Trump administration.
However, there are some critics – even in a left of center national media – who
wonder how it is possible to unite a Democrat flock without a sustained effort
to drive from the Democrat sheepfold such Marxist wolves as lard the administration
of Black Lives Matter – not to mention the critically untouched anarchists of ANTIFA.
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