Skip to main content

Biden And Democrat Leftists

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.   

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Obamagod!

My guess is that Barack Obama is a bit too modest to consider himself a Christ figure , but artist will be artists. And over at “ To Wit ,” a blog run by professional blogger, journalist, radio commentator and ex-Hartford Courant religious writer Colin McEnroe, chocolateers will be chocolateers. Nice to have all this attention paid to Christ so near to Easter.

The Blumenthal Burisma Connection

Steve Hilton , a Fox News commentator who over the weekend had connected some Burisma corruption dots, had this to say about Connecticut U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal’s association with the tangled knot of corruption in Ukraine: “We cross-referenced the Senate co-sponsors of Ed Markey's Ukraine gas bill with the list of Democrats whom Burisma lobbyist, David Leiter, routinely gave money to and found another one -- one of the most sanctimonious of them all, actually -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal."

Did Chris Murphy Engage in Private Diplomacy?

Murphy after Zarif blowup -- Getty Images Connecticut U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, up for reelection this year, had “a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference” in February 2020, according to a posting written by Mollie Hemingway , the Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist. Was Murphy commissioned by proper authorities to participate in the meeting, or was he freelancing? If the former, there is no problem. If the latter, Murphy was courting political disaster. “Such a meeting,” Hemingway wrote at the time, “would mean Murphy had done the type of secret coordination with foreign leaders to potentially undermine the U.S. government that he accused Trump officials of doing as they prepared for Trump’s administration. In February 2017, Murphy demanded investigations of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn because he had a phone call with his counterpart-to-be in Russia. “’Any effort to undermine our nation’s foreign policy – e