The Frontrunners That Were Not: Joe Biden Is Why Buttigieg is in the Race by Joaquin Flores!
(2019-12-01 at 05:26:50 )

The Frontrunners That Were Not: Joe Biden Is Why Buttigieg is in the Race by Joaquin Flores

Joe Bidens November 20th debate performance was both his fifth and also fifth consecutive poor debate. This comes with campaign foibles and declining poll numbers - Mr. Bidens problem would not be so enigmatic if DNC and deep-state controlled media did not insist that he was the DNC nomination frontrunner, despite their accurately reporting his lack of appeal and poor campaign performance. Sure, there is name recognition from the Obama administration. As Trump might say "yes, he has experience, but it is bad experience".

If the DNC really has a plan to defeat Donald Trump in 2020, then it is not obvious. And that might be a good thing in terms of strategy, but it also makes it a hard sell to voters.

What we need to untangle is the mysterious popularity of Mr. Biden and Mr. Buttigieg, and how these two characters are tightly connected in this race. It goes without saying that these are two very well vetted DNC approved and supported candidates, though the DNC knows they can not both win.

The alternative though is that the DNC has no plan to beat Donald Trump, and so it is not in this for real. Or conversely, this is all a big psy-op to recreate Donald Trumps campaign against Republicans as a Ms Gabbard campaign against Democrats as the path to the White House - against the system, against the deep state. Ms Gabbard, after all, has been running at least as much against Clinton and the DNC as she has against Trump.

She has appeared on conservative news media, an establishment which has been much quicker to incorporate convenient aspects of the new post left-right paradigm politics.

Yes, as an aside, it is possible that Ms Clintons attack on Ms Gabbard was staged. Ms Clinton would have been well advised to know how much she is reviled, and use that to her advantage. If Ms Gabbard is the DNC sleeper candidate, and Mr. Biden is just there for this plot to have an obstacle to arc over, given that the Ms Gabbard character is not herself "transforming" as she is a Mary Sue, then indeed it makes sense that Ms Gabbard running against Ms Clinton is a new-fangled DNC plot.

While we need to keep these two possibilities in mind, the more plausible scenario here is that the DNCs controllers, Ms Clinton and Co., are acting from a place of extreme narcissism and are blinded by hubris.

Did we imagine this could go any other way?

"Hubris", the pride that comes before the fall, is the primary theme we can apply to this component of the DNC Greek tragedy.

Because despite some of the write-ups coming off of the November 20th debate, Mr. Buttigieg has no chance and polling firms like Emerson still have Bernie Sanders as the only candidate positioned to defeat Donald Trump. This comes, they note, as impeachment hype on Donald Trump is waning, a good sign for the incumbent.

The facts are troubling for Mr. Biden. The New Yorker published an op-ed that Joe Biden "Stumbled Again" in the November 20th debate. The Washington Post published that Mr. Biden was the "biggest loser" in the same debate. The New York Times noted that Mr. Bidens digital footprint was slowly disappearing in mid-September. The more voters are exposed to Mr. Biden, the less they like him.

This is why the DNC makes sense with the bizarre campaign of Mr. Buttigieg as a subplot for Mr. Biden. Without Mr. Buttigieg serving a greater purpose in advancing the story overall, this is all an awful lot of character development for someone who is only going to be killed off in the mid-season finale.

Coming off of what was again yet another lackluster "performance" in the DNC candidates debate, if this were any other candidate we would have written them off long ago. But what keeps Mr. Biden in this race, and what maintains his frontrunner status despite being of little appeal to anyone is the DNC machine itself?

The DNC Does not care about Voters: It is still Ms Clintons Organization

Should Mr. Biden steal the nomination from more interesting and engaging, and yes, electable candidates like Mr. Sanders, Ms Gabbard, and Mr. Yang, we should absolutely expect that Donald Trump holds onto the White House.

But the DNC has already doubled-down on who and what they are, and the show must go on. No matter what one may want, how one may identify, the DNC has already made its case to the courts that it views itself as a private corporation.

And so Mr. Bidens continued preeminence in this race is precisely the underlying issue at hand for many Democrat, undecided, and independent voters: the corruption of the DNC goes much deeper than Wasserman Shultz, as explained in the tell-all by former DNC interim National Chair, Donna Brazile.

It goes to the fact that a whole consortium of investment firms, media agencies, and related transatlantic NGO and banking institutions all very much need their people - a DNC approved candidate - to win.

But winning requires a candidate with the characteristics of a winner, and so the shows producers need great talent. The glaring problem is that the shows directors have confused themselves for the shows stars. They want to star in this show themselves.

Pete Buttigieg - Bidens Secret Sauce

Sometimes the way to be more appealing is to stand next to someone who is anything but. We live in an age of explosive productions, big budget media-political synergies, an entire hyper-reality wherein actors like Morgan Freeman make very serious PSAs saying outright that the United States is at war with Russia, and that Donald Trump is a secret Russian pawn. This is the political climate, and these are the stakes. But these DNC directors insist not only on cameos in this blockbuster film, but on playing the leading characters themselves.

This means we are beyond mere corruption, and into the realm of self-destructive hyper-narcissism.

For all things told, the DNC could win this, and could have won the last race too. They simply lack any self-reflection, for this would mean that the directors act like directors and control the candidate, as they did with Mr. Obama, and not confuse themselves for the talent as they do now.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a fantastic manipulator and a murderous criminal ring leader of global proportions, a fact alone which should explode any old fashioned (or conversely, feminist) bigotry that women are not capable of such.

But as a candidate and public face, she is reviled. She has earned that too, by the way, but this has not stopped her from putting herself out there, to the detriment of her own aims. The sinking of the HRC ship was also the sinking of the DNC ship, and the peak arrogance at the moment of total destruction is the very definition of hubris in Greek tragedies.

This is chiefly why we are being spoon-fed Pete Buttigieg, who is apparently noteworthy for being a politically moderate homosexual, and amazingly still both moderate and homosexual. Really?

This is something which has no bearing, indication, or even odor of progressive politics in this (long past) post Harvey Milk political paradigm.

If the point here is to establish that a gay candidate can stand for absolutely nothing and also not be particularly offensive to otherwise conservative leaning voters, this point was established much earlier in the plot when even openly gay Republican congressman like Jim Kolbe, Steve Gunderson, Mark Foley, or Michael Huffington found electoral successes.

Some of these were decades ago. The list of openly gay Democrat Congressmen is longer, true, but the point here is evident: gay conservatism, log-cabin Republicans, is no new phenomenon. And so a DINO like Buttigieg is about as novel as he is interesting as a candidate.

And that means we need to face the reality that Mr. Buttigiegs being in the race, given his - to put it lightly - lack of qualifications, still points backs to Mr. Biden, which in turn points back to Ms Clinton.

Yes, it has already been exposed that Mr. Buttigiegs backers include Silicon Valley players like Facebook who fear a government break-up of its monopoly, but this in turn is only a facet of the DNC support machine itself.

But given that this also describes any DNC approved candidate, then this does not tell us enough about why Mr. Buttigieg in particular.

That leaves us with the real reason that Mr. Buttigieg is still in the race. It is to push the whole discourse over to the so-called "right", and make Mr. Biden look more interesting and "populist".

Though, it would be in error to say "to the right", because this term really means very little and the sort of "post-right" voters that made Donald Trump exciting and memetic are interested in the more post-paradigmatic campaigns of Ms Gabbard and Mr. Yang.

Yet certainly Mr. Buttigiegs role is to be so absolutely about nothing that when Mr. Biden gestures in some direction which otherwise would be described as feckless and dull, it is at least more exciting and popular than Mr. Buttigieg.

So Mr. Buttigiegs real role is that of - now for the irony - the straight man in Mr. Bidens comedy.

Just a day after the debate, notable "black community" politicians and deal-makers came out supporting Mr. Biden over Mr. Buttigieg, in Mr. Buttigiegs own South Bend, Indiana turf.

This has more to do with Mr. Bidens connection to the DNC and its own black community intersection through the "black church", the NGO sector, and organized labor than with how average black folks consider Mr. Biden himself.

Mr. Buttigieg maintains composure and resounds a clear dull grey blur of emptiness, which in turn highlights Mr. Bidens own verbalizing, making these appear almost like lofty and idealistic platitudes, even though they are not.

There has even been an attempt to intellectualize what Mr. Biden represents, to brand it as "restorationist", as if we are talking about the battle over power in early-mid 19th century France.

The Atlantic piece highlights that he is the first nominee in ages to openly push to turn the hands of time backwards. Move over House of Bourbon!

Despite all the dressings now, as in 2016, voters just are not buying it because there is no real vision, does not speak to their lived experiences, and it really all means very little.

It is more of the chattering class pretending to be interested in the conversation it is having with itself.

These are the ugly reasons that independents went over to Donald Trump or just stayed home.

The DNC corruption is only the surface level melanoma of a whole metastasized cancer, and the personage of Ms Clinton only an avatar for a much deeper systemic problem involving many layers and facets ranging from unemployment to the growing surveillance and police-state.

If not narcissism, then what?

There may just be a method to this madness however.

If the DNC strategy for getting their candidate elected next year is somehow based in maintaining a high level of public engagement simply on the absurdity factor alone, then perhaps they are onto something.

Because the ineluctability of Mr. Biden together with the high number of candidates still in the running absolutely makes this nomination process an eyebrow raising one, and has at the very least kept us all guessing. But not all cliffhangers are captivating, and indeed can ultimately turn audiences off if done badly.

The DNC needs to replace its showrunners, the present ones probably simply know where the bodies are buried.

While corruption is a rather normal fact of life, and campaigns to eradicate it always fail, there is a major difference between controlled corruption and rampant corruption.

Society is the art of clear-headed people managing, and making productive for all, that never-ending pushing and yearning for more which sociopaths and similar extreme narcissists have.

Society collapses when those narcissists themselves take over. United States of American society probably already collapsed, but the collapse of the DNC is already an obituary listing in a yellowed newspaper.

The woefully underqualified and underwhelming Mayor Buttigieg, known for his absolute inability to inspire anyone, seems only to be in the race to create the illusion that Mr. Biden has something radical to say. This alone says more than we need to know about Joe Biden himself.

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