Harris, the Democratic Party Establishment, Competence, and Conspiracy
Published at 17:48 on 2 July 2024
Have I told you recently just how much I despise the Democratic Party leadership clique? I don’t mean all Democrats (although I am to the left of that party), I mean the leadership clique. The people who decided Hillary Clinton was a viable candidate in 2016. The people who decided to coronate Biden as nominee instead of having a primary competition this cycle. Those people.
They have the unmitigated gall to smugly act as if they are the responsible adults in the room. This, despite blunder after overwhelming blunder.
This brings us to the Vice-President. Unlike the leadership clique, she is one of the party’s liberals, not one of its centrists. Biden, a centrist, nominated her because he had to nominate a liberal as a running mate in order to maximize his ticket’s appeal to the progressive base.
Now that Biden has demonstrated his unfitness for office, Harris is the logical choice for someone to fill his post. Because of course she is. Just read the United States Constitution.
Biden has to plain old resign. If he doesn’t resign, if he stays in office for the remainder of his term while trying to coronate a centrist replacement at a brokered convention, it is going to piss off Blacks and progressives and cost Biden votes. We know dirty pool when we see it.
That puts the leadership clique in a quandary. They don’t like Harris. They really don’t like Harris. She is not one of them, she is a heartbeat away from the presidency, and they can’t stand it. So many of them are saying that Biden can’t resign, because Harris is, in their words, “unelectable.”
Listen, you morons: Biden just blew a presidential debate worse than any candidate has ever blown such a debate in my lifetime. Quite possibly, he blew it worse than any candidate in any presidential debate in all of United States history. This is no exaggeration, it is cold, hard fact.
Yet somehow you think this disaster of a candidate, who has manifestly exhibited his unfitness for the office he occupies and seeks reelection to, is less of a lift to reelect than a Vice-President who is 59 years old, in good mental and physical health, but just happens to be a bit too far left for your personal political tastes?
Suck it up, buttercups. You don’t get to call all the shots all the time. Either a fascist goes to the White House or a liberal does. Your choice.
I don’t normally ascribe to conspiracy theories, but if there was one I would buy in to, it is that the Democratic Party exists primarily as a conspiracy to control, contain, and disempower the Left, and that those who run it know this and are deliberately in the game to do so. I will note that the current line on Kamala Harris fits this narrative like a glove.