The Marginalized Media is running
out of stream and bandwidth. They have been all in for Hillary since 2013. Who
can forget that ghastly New York Times Magazine cover with
Planet Hillary in the midst of a disordered solar system?! Carrying water for
the sinking ship of Democratic politics has become the not-so-subtle pastime of
creaky Beltway elites and television power brokers. Today, the disillusionment
of the Democratic base may serve as harbinger for the Democratic Party.
Their frontrunner is Mitt Romney in
a pantsuit, creases with no ease. Bernie Sanders is the authentic outsider this
election year: an old, white statist in elected office longer than Hillary
Clinton. The anti-establishment candidate is even more established, and until
last year, registered as a marginal Independent. Democrats with any modicum of
success have to depend on people who refused to identify with their party. What
a way to go down.
And that nasty Nevada Democratic
Party Convention last week. The Big Three tried to downplay the event. Too
late! Internet media sites, whether first or second tier, jumped all over the
kangaroo court of a political convention. The Bernie Sanders disarray sweeping the
Silver State is now frying the Democratic National Committee. Millennial
activists want to torch Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in effigy, since she has been
tipping her Medusa-like head toward Hillary Clinton from Day One. Left-wing
leaders from the Obama administration have descanted their own discontent,
including Van Jones, who would prefer the RNC Chairman Reince Priebus over
Little Debbie.
Why? Van Jones: “I wish Reince Priebus was my
party chair. He did a better job of handling the Trump situation than I’ve seen
my party chair handle this situation. I’m ashamed to say that.” By the way,
another liberal Democratic black activist (well, actually 75% white) Shaun
White has cut ties with the DNC. Why now? “Right now, the Democratic Party
which I have called home my entire life, is deeply in love with money.
Consequently, its leaders have supported and advanced all kinds of evil, big
and small, in devotion to this love affair.”
What? Democrats selling their souls
for money and power? How’d you guess, Shaun? At least hard-core Democrats
in general have to admit: Republicans play fair by and large. That’s why
Democrats, even in California, are voting Republican. Yes, the Golden State is
the Land of Fruits and Nuts. But red meat conservatives are restoring the
political palate once again.
After a week of damage control, and
the looming June 7th primary, the Los Angeles local media had
to cover the growing rifts among Democrats. The Nevada Democratic Party
Convention was a disaster. The bigger medial fail? A week later, and the Los
Angeles NBC affiliate bothered to question the current California Democratic
Party Chairman, John Burton.
Big Burton (on Haight-Ashbury, not
Sesame Street) has been in and out of Bay Area/California politics for decades.
He served in the state assembly, then Congress, then returned to the state
legislature afterwards. California Democrats are a strange—and spoiled—breed.
After serving in Washington, D.C., they get antsy about power plays, and settle
for another extended stint in … the state legislature?
On NBC 4’s “News Conference with Conan Nolan,” Burton actually
conceded that Donald Trump would peel away Bernie voters. Another old white San
Francisco liberal is the face of the Democratic Party in California. While
California Republicans like myself lamented that Ted Cruz dropped out last
month (thus stifling California’s influence in the Republican presidential
primary), the two Democratic contenders have shown no sign of settling their
national dispute.
Clinton has fundraised three times
in southern California. Bernie Sanders packed the stadium at Cal State
Dominguez Hills: “Open the doors, and let the people in!”
I wanted to go, and asked for some
free stuff, but I had to work that day.
Crazy.
Now, back to Burton: “Over 70
percent of the Sanders vote will vote for Hillary.” Another way to spin it: 30
percent of Democrats won’t vote for Hillary. Ouch!
A wide array of Republican backroom
leaders worried about Trump. “He will turn off Hispanics.” “He’s racist!”
Blah. Blah. Blah. Latinos young and
old (like Mexican-American Huntington Park resident Francisco
Rivera) are lining up behind him. Check
out this video from a young Hispanics Trump supporter, blasting the
Anaheim City Council for entertaining a resolution to condemn Donald Trump.
Now we have the Democratic
front-runner turning off Democrats, and in liberal loony California of all
places. Of course, Burton had to engage in damage control after the Nevada
Convention too. Conan reminded John: “They booed Barbara Boxer off the stage.” Burton’s
only answer: “Yeah. I know.”
Pathetic.
Burton then commandeered the same
elitist sneer which has propelled Trump over governors and U.S. senators in the
GOP Primary. The San Francisco liberal labeled Bernie supporters “emotional”
and “amateurs.” For a state political party chairman, he just played a rookie
mistake: don’t hate on your base. Then he trotted out his own lively, immature
exuberance from the 1968 Democratic National Committee convention. You know,
the one where the Chicago police had to restore order, and Richard Nixon wiped
out the Hubert Humphrey in the general election. Democrats are living in the
past, with a prologue of division and destruction now defining them at every
level of government.
The only sore spot for me—for many
Republicans—is the U.S. Senate race. Democrats in Nevada booed Batty Babs last
week, but the majority of California voters will face two Democrats U.S. Senate
candidates in the general election. Still, with two Democrats clashing, we can
expect a budget-busting battle royale from the two wings of the Democratic Party.
Republicans will continue winning city council and school board seats left and
right.
Nevertheless, even on the Left
Coast, Democrats are going to be devouring one another in their determined
power grab, all while squandering time money, resources, and liberty away from
winnable races elsewhere. From ethnic divisions, to the Golden State phalanx
vs. the Washington Cartel, Democrats are in disarray in California.
