In the last couple blog posts I pointed out (correctly) that the GOP does not represent America’s political and economic preferences, and that voting for them, if you’re not (1) loaded, (2) racist, or (3) anti-democracy, makes no rational sense.
However, readers possibly took from this that I am a Democrat. I am not. I hold the Democratic Party in very low esteem. Bill Clinton was an exceedingly Wall Street-friendly executive, and contributed to the deregulation of the financial services sector. What happened in 2008, he shares part of the blame.
Clinton has since apologized for it, but he also contributed to the mass incarceration problem in this country. A shameful legacy, despite his apology. One recalls John Belushi smashing the guitar in “Animal House” and then muttering under his breath, “Sorry.”
I was never enchanted by Obama. When he was first elected, people just gushed on Facebook. “Our guy is in the White House!” YOUR guy?? He’s not your guy. He’s Wall Street’s guy; he’s Harvard’s guy. (How easily Americans are charmed and seduced—a frightening reality.)
We got Obamacare, which was a half-measure; we did not get universal healthcare—like the rest of the developed world. We got: no refusal for pre-existing conditions and subsidized premiums. It was an improvement, but a very limited one. Blue Cross Blue Shield was thrilled. And anything that thrills Blue Cross Blue Shield is bad policy. The national insult that is BCBS should not exist.
There is also a body count, which we did not get with Trump (yes, I just said something positive about Trump). With Obama’s drone program, he rained death and destruction on Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia, regularly killing civilians. He should be in prison (so should Clinton).
And then there’s Biden. Biden is a 1970s Republican—at best. He’s basically a pile of clothes taking up space. Much of what is said about him is incorrect. He is not senile, he is not incompetent. He is old guard, and is operationally a Republican (like the Clintons and Obama). A friend of mine put it this way: “Biden's like an old communist-party apparatchik, whom the Central Committee decided can be General Secretary.”
Is he better than Trump? Well, that’s a low bar. A capuchin monkey would have been an improvement. In closing, Biden is a thoroughly unimpressive executive. Elizabeth Warren should be president, if Americans supported their own interests. Which they don’t.
The Democratic Party has posed as a labor party and they are not. They have been Wall Street-friendly and anti-union and have been just as “big business” as the GOP. It has been a poor showing. Yes, they are slowly moving toward the center, but it has been a few bad decades, and they have much to apologize for.
