To be fair, it’s not like Delaney has his finger on the pulse of the Democratic Party anything.
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Huh. With Biden, Inc. coming in, I guess we have a new version of discourse that makes me think, “I can’t tell if that’s satire or not.”
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As a human who talks with farmers and ranchers, who grows some food in Central Texas, who work as support crew for environmental justice workers, it is hard for me to find the right words to describe how bad this choice below is.
Either Biden is bought and paid for, or he is getting very very bad advice:
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I suspect it’s a matter of comfort level. I notice a distinct Obama-tinted theme to his appointments. Although bad advice is certainly in the mix as well.
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Of course he is. You don’t spend five decades in politics without it.
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Yeah, despite all their protestations to the contrary that his upcoming administration will not be Obama-lite or similar, Biden’s picks overall seem Obama-esque to me as well.
Ugh.
Comfort level is what we are all hungry for.
Comfort level is exactly what we need to be avoiding if we are going to address the mission-critical issues that may actually cause Cult45ers to turn away from their death cult if they see real progress being made. The whole “are you better off now than you were 4 years ago” pitch.
With inshallah the 2020 election over and done, my takeaway loud and clear is that identity politics is dead. Dead dead dead. Rafael Cruz and Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and Herman Cain, Stephen Miller and Stephen Miller, my own [off the boat] Chinese family members… one’s genetic, familial or ethnic background is no indicator of political agenda.
It’s all about track records and whose networks one is in. At the risk of stating the obvious, I know it always has been, but the shorthand that political pundits have lulled us into using has been part of the disastrous mistake that got us into our current clusterfk.
That said, lemme flip that coin over because it’s solstice today and in the spirit of the increasing light… this… (with apologies for reposting elsewhere on this bbs):
IIRC from years back, Jim Hightower [former head of Texas Dept of Ag] said at his bookreading that he had a conversation with at the Texas lege with a congressperson that forced him to conclude (and I am paraphrasing): “the honest Texas politician is the one who stays bought.” Meaning, she/he/they don’t switch sides or vote against the interest of their original/first donor-lobbyist.
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Seems like Biden, Inc. are touting the diverse identities of his picks far more than their (sometimes blatantly anti-99%-of-us) policies. The concept of “identity politics” is very alive and well.
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Inclusivity? Check.
I am not ungrateful.
- Assuming that all minorities vote for Democrats? Nope. Uncheck.
- Assuming that the poorest Americans will vote for someone who understands their situation and who will work to better their situation (e.g. not vote for
)? Nope.
Reading this kinda makes my head hurt:
(sorry, it’s paywalled, ish, I think you get one free article a month or something)
All bets are off.
IMO it’s all this now.
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I am, when such appointments are accompanied by policies that hurt rather than help people who aren’t billionaires. It amounts then to little more than the window-dressing of black or brown faces in high places. It’s mere, you know, “identity politics.”
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I haven’t had much time or energy to deep-dive the track records of Biden’s picks, for those whose work and history I am ignorant of.
It’s been an excessively weird tango, watching Biden preach bridging the divides and promising bipartisanship while AOC continues to say everything that needs to be said and more than that, needs to be done.
As a reluctant, exhausted community organizer, I can’t tell if Pelosi and Biden are pushing back hard on AOC’s relevant and forward-thinking agenda items because they believe she’s < super huge ironic quotes > “divisive” / < s h i q >, or if they simply need to sound like they are ever so distant from her wild’n’crazy ideas so that their own agendas seem oh-so-much-more-reasonable and palatable to those in U.S. congress who identify as “moderates” WTFTM.
I could be completely wrong.
Biden’s political positions have evolved over the years, and I am all for people changing their minds and making better choices. I’d be a fool not to think that he’s got advisors curating The Optics wrt his appointees esp. right now, because this is something under close scrutiny right now. Getting the pre-vetted (i.e. previous appointees) like Vilsack to fill some empty jobs is such a no-brainer.
Yeah, the current crew in the WH sure had its own of that and still does.
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And the incoming crew doesn’t?
C’mon, man!
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The London Times. The Murdoch-owned Times. It’s been 40 years since it was reputable. I am disinclined to believe a word emanating from any Murdoch-owned media. YMMV.
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Surprise surprise surprise (not).
This is the guy who says he sees no problem with billionaires. Clearly including those who make their billions from usurious loans that people take out for something that should be free in the first place.
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Goodbye Social Security?
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And hello austerity. Which in turn may lead to another Republican in the White House after 2024.
The Boomer politicians in both party establishments are reaching the endgame in late-stage capitalist Musical Chairs. If you’re under 55 and not sitting down right now prepare to be standing without any real support for the rest of your life.
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It’s really breathtaking how quickly he’s willing to burn every ounce of potential good will he needed from the progressive wing of the party to get his ass elected in the first place.
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