I wanted to take the weekend “off.”
Unfortunately, I had to wake up Friday morning to a story about Elizabeth
Warren attacking Bernie Sanders supporters, as if her own supporters are such blameless
“angels.” Let’s get two things straight right up front: As documentarian
Michael Moore pointed out, it was a shock to everyone in the progressive
movement (except maybe the fake ones who supported her) when Warren stabbed
Sanders in the back with an unsupportable and unverifiable accusation that she
knew the anti-Sanders media would eat-up—the kind of accusations that this
alleged “victim” of “sexism” had been making-up the entire campaign; these
claims may have served to bolster her gender-victim core support, but it seems
that most other voters just saw it as self-serving. While Sanders’ own
criticism of Warren was largely muted, she didn’t just say that she had a “better”
plan than Sanders, she claimed he had no plan at all. She did this even after
her own health care “plan” went up like toast under the slightest scrutiny, and
her “plans” were less “policies” than just
old talking points. Were Sanders supporters justified in being angered by
Warren’s faithless “friend’ backstabbing? Who is kidding who here?
Like Hillary Clinton, Warren
needed to blame someone for her defeat, and Sanders’ personal moral and ethical
unassailability—which was in direct counterpoint to both Clinton and Warren’s megalomaniacal
history of “alternate facts” based on self-victimization and the invention of
false “histories” to justify it—was obviously frustrating for them to face. Was
it the fault of Sanders’ supporters that voters saw that Warren’s “anger” was
not so much directed at “bad” institutions against “the people,” but her own
personal antipathy about a power structure she wanted to undo for her own
personal gain? As a Washington Examiner
editorial noted before Super Tuesday, Warren’s claim that she rejected “big
money” donors was another one of her lies. The big money “Persist” PAC appears
to have been created to support Warren almost exclusively, even though she
technically was not allowed to “collude” with it as a matter of fact; despite
the persistent evidence that Warren’s campaign was failing, it persisted in
flooding the airwaves with many millions of dollars in ad campaigns that almost
exclusively supported Warren. The
Examiner noted that
It isn’t
hard to see what’s going on here. Voters have now rejected Warren in four
consecutive nominating contests, and she trails Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in
her own state of Massachusetts. So you could say that without this infusion of
super PAC money, Warren is dead in the water. But with
this infusion of super PAC money, Warren is also dead in the water. She is about to prove once again with
her own example (not that it will convince Democrats) that money can’t buy
elections….Even before this, the hectoring,
lecturing, self-righteous Warren was already the biggest campaign finance hypocrite of the 2020 election cycle. Her
glass house was first shattered in December when she attacked South Bend,
Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg for holding a fundraiser in a “wine cave.” With
his typical smirk, Buttigieg replied that Warren had used exactly such
high-dollar fundraisers to rake in the 2018 Senate campaign money that seeded
her presidential campaign.
Warren’s self-righteous, egomaniacal hypocrisy is
unbelievable in its scope, second only to that of Hillary Clinton’s. Warren didn’t
“need” Sanders supporters to undo herself; she did it all by herself.
Naturally, her comments attacking Sanders supporters is just a set-up for the
inevitable: to prove once-and-for-all that she was and always has been an
opportunistic supporter of “progressive” politics if and only if she personally
benefited from it—although perhaps more for political gain than the more craven
desire for wealth creation, as in the way the Clintons did in trying to promote
as “progressive” the rollback of the Glass-Steagall Act, an action which ended-up
being a significant factor in creating the Great Recession.
Enough is enough. Amy Klobuchar
and Kamala Harris at least had the personal integrity of not searching in every
dark corner for scapegoats to explain the failure of their campaigns, proving
that they are realists, not egomaniacs. Warren’s failure is her own, and this
self-righteous hypocrite needs to own that fact. Warren was a
media creation, and she fell hard when the bubble burst and the truth was
revealed to be her emptiness.
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