Reaction to Biden performance

If you eat toast for breakfast, you will now be crazy about Joe Biden because that’s what he appears to be: toast. And stale toast with no butter or jelly at that. At least that’s how he came off in last night’s debate with the world record holder for lies, Donald Trump. Trump lied and blustered and lied and blustered some more. But he appeared calm and dynamic at the same time. And Biden? Here’s one quote: “We’re able to make every single solitary person … eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the, uh, with — with the Covid, or excuse me, with, dealing with, everything we have to do with, uh … Look … If … We finally beat Medicare.” The words on a page simply don’t do it justice. Biden spoke in a raspy voice devoid of any emotion or dynamism. And in this country, appearances are 75% of politics.

Within 12 hours of the end of the debate, there were all sorts of voices calling for Biden to withdraw. Not from the Trump campaign, which according to a CNN spokesman is “petrified” at that prospect. Those calls come from those who really don’t want Trump elected, even including the Wall St. Journal editorial board. They wrote: “The question is whether any prominent Democrats will now break from their party-wide omertà and call on the President to consider stepping aside.” 

Trump and Biden in debate

The NY Times reported that a“veteran Democratic strategist who has staunchly backed Mr. Biden publicly” sent a text message: “Joe had a deep well of affection among Democrats. It has run dry…. The man on the stage with Trump cannot win. The fear of Trump stifled criticism of Biden. Now that same fear is going to fuel calls for him to step down.” They reported that major Democratic Party donor Mark Buell asked “Do we have time to put somebody else in there?”

Let’s face it: Biden is too old. True, so is Trump, but the two show it in different ways. An argument can be made that if they dug a cadaver up out of the grave and ran it for president one should vote for that cadaver to keep Trump out. But that’s not the point; the point is how most voters see it.

Democrats Circle Their Wagons
Yet within hours the Democratic Party tops were circling their wagons. California governor Gavin Newsome was telling the press how much he loves Biden and Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman was saying that he had a bad debate performance and went on to win his race for senate.

The Democratic Party leadership is out of touch. Why is that? First we must understand that it is almost impossible to get elected into office without an apparatus that can mobilize a base of support and raise money. Such an apparatus is a political party, or at least a party-in-the-making. So we have to look at who really controls the Democratic party, which is the Democratic National Committee, the DNC. The DNC is composed of the chairs and vice chairs of each state Democratic Party. That doesn’t really tell you very much until you look at the top officers of the DNC.

Democratic National Committee
Jaime Harrison is the chair of the DNC. He was selected by Biden. Harrison started his career in the liberal NGO world. He went from there to the staff of US Representative Jim Clyburn. According to Wikipedia, “He later served as a lobbyist for the Podesta Group. His clients at the Podesta Group included banks, such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo, BerkshireHathaway, pharmaceutical companies casinos, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, and Walmart, among others.”

Then, if you look at Harrison’s mentor, Jim Clyburn, who played a big role in getting Biden the 2020 nomination, you can see that he, too, started his career by linking up with already existing Democratic politicians, first of all Julian Devine, who ran for and won a seat on the Charleston City Council in 1969. Prior to that, Clyburn made his mark by linking up striking Charleston hospital workers with the authorities. Clyburn went on to work for South Carolina governor John West.

DNC co-chair and Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer took a similar route – through the Democrats’ internship program. This program hooks up promising young college students with already established politicians. In Whitmer’s case it was with Democratic state representative Chris Hertel.

Another top member of the DNC is its finance chair and attorney Charles Korge. According to his company web site, he “has specialized in government contracts and procurement, legislative affairs, land use, development, permitting, and other regulatory affairs.” In other words, Korge has specialized in connecting Corporate America with government agencies. Korge has parlayed that specialty into being a “bundler” for the Democratic Party. That is a person who bundles together major donors for their party.

So we can see that the Democratic Party leadership is a self perpetuating body, handed down from one generation to the next. It survives because for decades the only alternative was the Republican Party leadership, which has now been taken over, lock stock and barrel by one individual.

It is still not ruled out that Biden could win, but the chances of him doing so now appear about as great as success in drawing to an inside straight in poker. The chances of success there are exactly one in 13.

Get prepared
So, what is necessary now more than ever is to prepare for four years of Trump. And these four years will be far worse than the previous ones (2016-20). The NY Times has revealed that the Democrats are making such preparations, by planning on court challenges. Are they serious? Even without the present Trump-controlled Supreme Court that wouldn’t work. Conclusion: What’s needed is rank and file, democratically (small “d”) controlled committees of resistance – committees that are independent of and opposed to both capitalist parties as well as opposed to the nonprofiteers, the union bureaucrats and the Putinized “left” in America.

Reaction to Biden performance