Democrats Are Elitist
Democrats are — at their core — no different than Republicans when it comes to Wall Street and forging real solutions to chronic disasters. They, if anything, are even more entrenched in the status quo than their populist-backed, yet oligarchic rivals. You only have to look around to see that Amazon is as concerned about environmental exploitation as Joe Biden, or that Oprah has no more claim to publicly voicing her concerns over racial exploitation than Mercedes-Benz. How can it be that Big Corporations, Big Media Magnates, and Big Powerful Politicians have come together on so many things? Because it’s all about talk. It’s easy to agree rhetorically. It’s even easier if — deep, deep down — you all have the same goals.
Democrats have jumped on the racial bandwagon just like they jumped on the poverty bandwagon a few centuries ago. It’s all about votes and voices. Not about substance or actual change. Wall Street grew just as much during Clinton’s years as it did during Trump’s. Every now and then they grow an AOC inside a test tube and offer that to the desperate, oppressed populace as an omen that they’re working on changing things. NO THEY’RE NOT. Democratic elites are as rich and dirty as anyone. They cut as many shady, nepotistic deals and grope as many females as any self-respecting oil tycoon or real estate oligarch ever has.
And on the other side, Republicans have joined the same strident call as a way of covering up the fact that decades ago they were the ones who opened the floodgates to exploitative, speculative business projects. Republicans’ quixotic populism of recent years is merely a way of catering to the chronic angst of citizens who — even if they aren’t aware of it — are sick and tired of being exploited. Democrats’ answer is faux reform. That electing well-briefed, sanitized representatives of oppressed ethnic and gender groups to high office will fix everything. Republicans answer is promising dirt-poor rural communities (via Twitter rages) that cutting corporate taxes will somehow allow them to afford healthcare.
What this all shows, is that the elites know what they’re doing. They’re a bit afraid. They know they have to provide lip service to liberty and equality to keep slipping out their billions from under the carpet. They have to find some way to keep the system going. Even as it’s breaking down. They have to find some way of keeping the exploited citizenry placated. And the ploy they’ve settled on is to talk very loudly about the need for change and dupe us into subscribing to one or another version of maintaining the status quo. We only get to choose which band of wolves gets the privilege of shepherding us for the next four years.
