Electoral Sports

The blog topics to be published next week have to do with electoral history.

As I had previously written, I intend to post a few electoral topics—but not excessively in their numbers or their frequency—in each of the six consecutive months leading up to the general election scheduled for November 3, 2020. (This covers the months May to October.)

One thing to keep in mind is this: Neither the United States’s Republican or Democratic political parties represent us—the have-nots—and that is intentional.

I cannot muster excitement over a 2020 general-election matchup of Trump-vs.-Biden.

At this point, the United States presidential election is merely Electoral Sports.

Historical voting pattern can be referenced, when making arguments for why Team Red or Team Blue will likely have the better year, but this may as well be, say, baseball.

A batter [for a team] steps up to the plate, is about to perform, but before he does the viewer is given historical and statistical information [about the batter and/or his team] which renders human beings like that batter to be, ultimately, less human and unimportant.

The United States presidential election of 2020 promises will be no different.

‘The Democrats never learn’

Since 2016, just after Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton lost the United States presidential election to a Republican pickup winning Donald Trump, there has been a phrase often repeated.

The Democrats never learn.

This is about corporate Democrats rejecting progressivism—and some progressives, actual progressives, thinking the corporate Democrats are wrong in their understanding of the electorate and the period in which we are living.

This comes from those who voted the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination not to Hillary Clinton but to Bernie Sanders.

The Democrats never learn.

The progressives have it wrong.

Who hasn’t learned—at least not yet—are those progressives who are still being a part of the Democratic Party.

Being a part of the Democratic Party involves not just running for office in the Democratic Party. It also includes voting for the Democratic Party.

The Democrats—the corporate Democrats—do not have “their blinders on,” which are words used in the above Hard Lens Media video. (That video commentary is about the party’s recent loss, in a Republican pickup, of the special U.S. House election in California’s 25th Congressional District.)

The corporate Democrats have the party they, for the most part, want.

What the corporate Democrats really want, if they could get it to work out for them, was revealed and explained in 2014 by New York U.S. senator and minority leader Chuck Schumer.

“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia—and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”

I will re-post the quote with the emphasis (in bold) which allows one to accurately read between the lines of that important message.

“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia—and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”

Chuck Schumer, and the rest of his fellow corporate Democrats, would like to choose—if they can—for their voters to be Republicans.

[Republicans] are who and what Chuck Schumer and his fellow corporate Democrats want.

It’s who they are.

‘Leftists Jump the Corporate Democratic Ship, Leaving Sanders Behind’

Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford has a marvelous piece about numerous of the people who supported—and who voted—the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination to Bernie Sanders being unwilling to Vote Blue No Matter Who.

Link:

Leftists Jump the Corporate Democratic Ship, Leaving Sanders Behind

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I also recommend the following by Black Agenda Report’s Quetzal Cáceres:

Link:

The Sheepdog Caucus and So-Called “Democratic” Socialists

Obamagate

Jimmy Dore welcomed as his guest Max Blumenthal to discuss Obamagate.

‘Ray McGovern: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC’

Last weekend, Consortium News published  this latest by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the falseness of Russia-gate.

Link:

Ray McGovern: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC


I want to share the following readers comment:

For two and a half years the House Intelligence Committee knew CrowdStrike didn’t have the goods on Russia. Now the public knows too.

Twin Pillars of Russiagate Crumble

Maybe so. I sure that this is correct. But, so what. Everyone ‘knows’ those devious Russians hacked the DNC. I would love this silly assertion not to be the case but this is how propaganda and manipulation works. It’s all about inference, and associationist thinking which slowly seeps into the popular consciousness and is taken to be objective ‘truth’.

“The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performace as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyses in a way in which he would recognise as infantile withing the sphere of his own interests. He becomes a primitive again. His thinking becomes associative and affective … Information is plentiful and readily available. But this does not seem to make any difference … he is impatient of long complicated arguments. All of which goes to show that without the initiative which comes from immediate responsibility, ignorance will persist in the face of masses of information however complete and correct.”  

[Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, by Joseph Schumpeter, 1942]

Sorry, I have to call it like I see it.

—Francis Lee, May 10, 2020

‘In the People’s War against COVID-19, Socialism Offers Victory while Capitalism Spells Defeat’

Danny Haiphong—who has recently appeared as a guest on The Jimmy Dore Show—wrote a really good piece on Black Agenda Report.

Here is the link:

In the People’s War against COVID-19, Socialism Offers Victory while Capitalism Spells Defeat

‘Corporate Media Largely Decide Which Black Lives Matter’

Margaret Kimberley · Corporate Media Largely Decide Which Black Lives Matter

If what I had embedded does not work, here is the link directly to the site:

Corporate Media Largely Decide Which Black Lives Matter



(The next blog topic will be posted Friday, May 8, 2020, at 06:00 a.m. ET.)