{"id":6574,"date":"2025-05-13T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:08:16","slug":"j-b-pritzker-cant-save-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6574","title":{"rendered":"J.B. Pritzker Can\u2019t Save You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suppose, just for sake of argument, that all the stuff J.B. Pritzker recently said in New Hampshire<\/a> is sincere and not just hot air and politicking. What then?<\/p>\n

Well, first he’s just one Democrat. He speaks for himself, and nobody else. And yes, while he’s not the only one<\/a>, what is being done here is to cherry-pick Democrats. Overall, and in the aggregate, it is a party that has been a willing co-participant<\/a> in the USA’s transition to an authoritarian, fascist (or at least quasi-fascist) state.<\/p>\n

Realistically, what hope is there for that trend changing, for no apparent good reason, in the near future, just because it is politically convenient? Let’s be realistic here: it is somewhere between slim and none.<\/p>\n

So even if JBeefy is serious, and even if he gets to the White House (and he is definitely<\/em> running, even though he hasn’t officially announced it yet), it will be just him and a few other exceptions that prove a general rule. It is pretty obvious that, overall, the general rule will prevail.<\/p>\n

And if it is just hot air and politicking? Basically the same result, just with a little less sturm und drang<\/em>, that is all.<\/p>\n

So J.B. is irrelevant.<\/p>\n

He is irrelevant, that is, so long as action is mostly limited to voting for the self-proclaimed “opposition” party and\/or candidate.<\/em><\/p>\n

Until the none-of-the-above movement of which I have written earlier<\/a> emerges, elections are more irrelevant than most think. But if such a movement emerges, it might be able to hijack the Democrats and use them to serve its end, in much the same way as Trump hijacked the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Will it happen because Democrats are opportunists and want to pander? Yes. Will it happen in spite of Democratic Party insiders’ attempts to contain, manage, and minimize it? Yes. Will those insiders have to be fought for true control? Yes.<\/p>\n

But it doesn’t matter so much. A Democratic Party that does the right things for insincere reasons, does the right things against the wishes of its operatives, is still ultimately doing the right things.<\/p>\n

But just voting alone will not and cannot make this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suppose, just for sake of argument, that all the stuff J.B. Pritzker recently said in New Hampshire is sincere and not just hot air and politicking. What then? Well, first he’s just one Democrat. He speaks for himself, and nobody else. And yes, while he’s not the only one, what is being done here is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6575,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions\/6575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}