Well I Never! To think that the notably independent and farseeing and evolved voters in the Democratic Party could all suddently change direction and march in lockstep and vote for Joe Biden all across the land!
Except in whitish places like Vermont and Colorado and Hispanic places like California where the wokerati went for Bernie.
Over at Unz, fellow Ex-Brit John Derbyshire explains Bernie through his experience with the housing market. Back in 1967 he and his then girl-friend just out of college bought a house -- in London.
Anyway. The comparison with the GOP in 2016 is glaring.
Back in 2016 the GOP bigwigs hated Trump and did all they could to delegitimize him. But the GOP faithful were utterly fed up with being sold down the river by their leaders and so they voted for Trump anyway. And so now the old GOP establishment is done for.
And un-opposed Trump is scoring vote totals about equal to the total vote in the Democratic presidential primaries.
In 2020 the Democratic voters are responding to their leaders and voting for the clueless -- but establishment -- candidate Joe Biden. So you tell me how Democratic voters are educated and evolved and special and #WeBelieve and all the rest of the rubbish.
And tell me how noble and wise the Bernie voters are voting for socialism. Look. Socialism, or the administrative state or whatever, does not help young people trying to start out. Because the more power you give government the móre it is going to sell its soul to existing interests with money to burn.
Take California and its AB5 bill to torpedo the "gig economy." It was promoted by State Representative Lorena Gonzales who was responding to the union movement.
Hello millennials and Gen-Zers. The unions are not your friends! They are all in favor of crystalizing the economy and handing out the bennies to people that have paid their dues.
If you are a young person you want an open economy open to talents. You want lazy old "OK Boomers" to be taught a lesson and retired early so you can get their jobs. You want an economy where old tired workers that aren't worth their salaries get dumped so you can step into their jobs at a fraction of their salary.
If you are a young person you want to be able to work for anything or nothing -- also known as internships -- so you can get your foot on the ladder. But if the unions are running the show, and if there is a minimum wage and if there is an AB5 that stops you working as a contractor then the first rung on the ladder has been sawn off.
If you don't realize that then you are a fool and a knave and you are going to get what is coming to you.
And if, in addition, you are a Bernie voter you are advertising to the whole world that you are a knucklehead and a fool and a knave what don't know nothin'.
Actually, what we are seeing is that the Democratic Party is split between its Gentry and its Clients. The Gentry voted for Bernie and the Clients voted for Biden.
The problem, I think, is that the interests of the Gentry and the Clients are in conflict.
This has been happening slowly over the decades. After all, in the beginning a century ago the lefty progressive Gentry were just a few elitists and the Clients were the whole working class.
But now with widespread higher education the Gentry is a fair sized voting bloc that expects sinecures in the administrative state and also expects to impose its secular religious views on the whole country.
Over the same time the Commoner segment has been growing as more and more Americans have grown out of the Client sector and become modestly independent people that don't want to truckle to a lordly Gentry.
I'd say that the potential loot for the Gentry and the Clients is limited. Because it has to come out of the hide of the Commoners and the Commoners have had it with paying for Gentry in the administrative state and education and the non-profit sector and they are fed up with paying loot to people that vote for the Gentry.
Look, I'm just a deplorable what don't know nuttin. But I find it odd that the Dems are going flat out for total government health care, total student debt relief, and complete demolition of the economy with the Green New Deal. That's not what I expect from a crafty Machiavellian ruling class that knows its stuff.
Something does not compute in Liberal Land. It seems that all the batters are wildly swinging for a home run instead of just trying to get on base.
You tell me what that means.
Except in whitish places like Vermont and Colorado and Hispanic places like California where the wokerati went for Bernie.
Over at Unz, fellow Ex-Brit John Derbyshire explains Bernie through his experience with the housing market. Back in 1967 he and his then girl-friend just out of college bought a house -- in London.
We were two working-class kids not long out of college. (We’d both graduated in 1967.) Our two families had a combined net worth of … zero. And we bought a house—in London! The asking price was three times my annual salary as a young cube jockey.Good luck for any Learn To Code guy trying that in London or Bay Area or Seattle in 2020!
Right there you have an explanation for the radicalism of young adults and the “OK, Boomer” sourness.Granted, Derb. But with Bernie these clueless youngsters are voting for more of the same. Because it was Gentry liberalism tied into the administrative state that rolled money into higher education and forced kids into debt. And it is the administrative state, goaded on by the educated Gentry, that has made housing unaffordable, partly by subsidizing mortgages and partly by land-use restrictions -- which in England are insane, because we can't destroy our wonderful English countryside can we?
Anyway. The comparison with the GOP in 2016 is glaring.
Back in 2016 the GOP bigwigs hated Trump and did all they could to delegitimize him. But the GOP faithful were utterly fed up with being sold down the river by their leaders and so they voted for Trump anyway. And so now the old GOP establishment is done for.
And un-opposed Trump is scoring vote totals about equal to the total vote in the Democratic presidential primaries.
In 2020 the Democratic voters are responding to their leaders and voting for the clueless -- but establishment -- candidate Joe Biden. So you tell me how Democratic voters are educated and evolved and special and #WeBelieve and all the rest of the rubbish.
And tell me how noble and wise the Bernie voters are voting for socialism. Look. Socialism, or the administrative state or whatever, does not help young people trying to start out. Because the more power you give government the móre it is going to sell its soul to existing interests with money to burn.
Take California and its AB5 bill to torpedo the "gig economy." It was promoted by State Representative Lorena Gonzales who was responding to the union movement.
Hello millennials and Gen-Zers. The unions are not your friends! They are all in favor of crystalizing the economy and handing out the bennies to people that have paid their dues.
If you are a young person you want an open economy open to talents. You want lazy old "OK Boomers" to be taught a lesson and retired early so you can get their jobs. You want an economy where old tired workers that aren't worth their salaries get dumped so you can step into their jobs at a fraction of their salary.
If you are a young person you want to be able to work for anything or nothing -- also known as internships -- so you can get your foot on the ladder. But if the unions are running the show, and if there is a minimum wage and if there is an AB5 that stops you working as a contractor then the first rung on the ladder has been sawn off.
If you don't realize that then you are a fool and a knave and you are going to get what is coming to you.
And if, in addition, you are a Bernie voter you are advertising to the whole world that you are a knucklehead and a fool and a knave what don't know nothin'.
Actually, what we are seeing is that the Democratic Party is split between its Gentry and its Clients. The Gentry voted for Bernie and the Clients voted for Biden.
The problem, I think, is that the interests of the Gentry and the Clients are in conflict.
This has been happening slowly over the decades. After all, in the beginning a century ago the lefty progressive Gentry were just a few elitists and the Clients were the whole working class.
But now with widespread higher education the Gentry is a fair sized voting bloc that expects sinecures in the administrative state and also expects to impose its secular religious views on the whole country.
Over the same time the Commoner segment has been growing as more and more Americans have grown out of the Client sector and become modestly independent people that don't want to truckle to a lordly Gentry.
I'd say that the potential loot for the Gentry and the Clients is limited. Because it has to come out of the hide of the Commoners and the Commoners have had it with paying for Gentry in the administrative state and education and the non-profit sector and they are fed up with paying loot to people that vote for the Gentry.
Look, I'm just a deplorable what don't know nuttin. But I find it odd that the Dems are going flat out for total government health care, total student debt relief, and complete demolition of the economy with the Green New Deal. That's not what I expect from a crafty Machiavellian ruling class that knows its stuff.
Something does not compute in Liberal Land. It seems that all the batters are wildly swinging for a home run instead of just trying to get on base.
You tell me what that means.
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