Electoral Musings: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-11-05 at 04:16:39 )

Electoral Musings: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

It is perfectly valid for the United States of American public to express outrage over Donald Trumps declaration of victory, but the entire United States of American media and political class forever lost all legitimacy to condemn a nations leader for illegitimately crowning themselves by backing the Venezuela coup.

Watching Democrats inability to handily defeat a crazy reality TV host in two elections is like seeing someone pick a fight with a six year-old girl and getting their ass kicked, then coming back with a bunch of their friends and watching them all get carried off on stretchers.

All the hours of post-electoral analysis you are about to hear are just mental gymnastics to avoid confronting one very simple fact: that the way the Democratic Party has been securing funding is incompatible with securing votes. That is the only correct answer to the question of what went wrong for the Democrats this year. They court wealthy donors who in exchange demand policies which hurt ordinary United States of Americans. Ignore all answers besides this one.

It is not because of inadequate outreach to this or that demographic.

It is not because of racism.

It is not because of being too "woke".

It is not because of the Electoral College or gerrymandering.

It is because Democratic donors advance interests which hurt the Democratic base, which naturally makes the base disinclined to vote for them.

People simply are not going to support a party which does not advance their interests. If the Democratic Party were obtaining material benefits for people, they would dominate the United States government.

But that would mean taking things away from the donor class, so it is been a no-go.

Meanwhile the donor class is never going to support a party which acts against its interests.

Getting enough votes and getting the support of wealthy elites are therefore mutually exclusive endeavors.

You cannot have both.

Dems will keep struggling with votes until they figure this out.

It is good that people are criticizing the Democrats garbage performance against a cartoon character opponent.

But let us not kid ourselves: as soon as they get Joe Biden in the line is going to be "We are doing fine; nothing needs to change. Joe Biden beat the socialist and then beat Donald Trump.

Where is brunch?"

Democrats ignored the left and courted Republicans instead under the mistaken belief that there are millions of United States of Americans who want to coddle the rich, kill the poor, shit on disadvantaged groups and destroy the environment, but to do so with decency.

Maybe there are a lot of liberals who are closet Donald Trump voters. This dark, secret passion they can never admit to publicly, like how all conservatives secretly love gay sex.

Presidents are just narrative management ops the United States empire uses to explain to the public why it is doing the things it was always going to do. Like explaining death to children using puppets.

If Joe Biden somehow fails to get in, the elites who installed him as the nominee are responsible for that loss.

If Joe Biden secures the election, the elites who installed him are responsible for his administrations evil actions. You do not get to control everything and then duck responsibility for your outcomes.

Ignore everyone who is bitching about the Electoral College right now. They only ever complain about it during actual elections and then forget all about it until the next one.

Leftists who voted Joe Biden did it with the goal of hopefully later getting a chance to wake America up. Liberals who voted Joe Biden did it so they can go back to sleep.

Bush dropped more bombs than Clinton. Obama dropped more bombs than Bush. Trump dropped more bombs than Obama. This trend has much less to do with who is president than with the nature of global metastatic imperialism. And it aint changing with Joe Biden.

The idea that everything will be fine once Donald Trump is gone is more dangerous than Donald Trump.

There is no point telling the Democratic establishment that Bernie Sanders would have won. They know Bernie would have won. That is why they stopped him.

The more desperately aggressive and authoritarian the western empire becomes, the more the blue checkmarked commentariat who protect it are going to expose themselves for what they really are.

This is all you are ever seeing with those liberals and fauxgressives who spend all their time on Twitter taking pot shots at anti-imperialists and finger wagging at people for being too far left. They are just protecting an increasingly indefensible world order from its critics.

"Antifascists" who support Joe Biden should call themselves Arguably-Slightly-Less-Fascist.

The dumbest thing about this presidential race has been the narrative that nations who will be targeted by the United States no matter who wins have a really strong preference for one of the candidates.

Beauty is just a word for the experience of having truly seen something.

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