Posted on 10/31/2018 7:01:35 AM PDT by C19fan
Daniel Bonthius was never much interested in politics before Donald Trump came along. Both his parents are involved in the labor movement, but he earned a musical theater degree in Boston and moved to New York City to make it as an actor. Like many of the city’s aspiring actors, Bonthius, 33, was waiting tables and working for an event planner—and had been doing it for most of a decade when Donald Trump obliterated the political system in 2016.
After the election, a shocked Bonthius invited friends over to his home in Sunnyside, Queens, a one-time Irish enclave that has seen an influx of new residents. “I just wanted to talk out what happened with people who felt the same way I did,” he says. That gathering eventually morphed into an Indivisible group, a grass-roots left-wing answer to the Tea Party, and in early 2017 it hosted a new candidate for Congress the first time she met with an organized group of voters: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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But a closer examination of the data tells a different story. Ocasio-Cortez’s best precincts were places like the neighborhood where Bonthius and his friends live: highly educated, whiter and richer than the district as a whole. In those neighborhoods, Ocasio-Cortez clobbered Crowley by 70 percent or more. Crowley’s best precincts, meanwhile, were the working-class African-American enclave of LeFrak City, where he got more than 60 percent of the vote, and portions of heavily Hispanic Corona. He pulled some of his best numbers in Ocasio-Cortez’s heavily Latino and African-American neighborhood of Parkchester, in the Bronx—beating her by more than 25 points on her home turf.
Seems straight out of Banana Republics.
IOW, the ones who assume that they will be in charge of the new progressive paradise while the proles bow, scrape and serve them.
In today’s RAT Party rich white elites still control everything while people of color are still water carriers and puppets for them. Has the RAT Party eve really changed in structure since the days of slavery?
Excellent article, recommended. Fr. Pavone has been on my radar for years, he is doing the Lord’s work.
He makes the point that common sense among leftists is very uncommon!
They mean a vast non-working class - of net benefit recipients. Single mothers. Indebted liberal arts students. University lecturers who can't get tenure. Professional race baiters. Gang members and their "civilian" affiliates. Misguided suburban soccer moms who think they are voting to "Save Our Schools." Ugly young men living in their parents' basements and posting on Daily Kos and DU all day. And plenty of illegals to vote in the names of the dead and relocated they are constantly suing to keep from being purged from the databases.
The working class largely abandoned the Democrats in 2016. It's telling that they are not making any significant attempts to win them back, but are instead doubling down on the Marxist message and seeking to increase the number of the unemployable dispossessed under their control.
“...when Donald Trump obliterated the political system in 2016....”
Geez...do you think he overstates much? It’s not like Trump lied about being a citizen or anything....
This always kills me — the guy waits on tables. He’s 33 but he could be 99 for all his chances of success. In the entertainment world it’s always the non powerful, the ones outside the charmed circle, the delusional dreamers that are the most ferocious in their loyalty to the left’s cause. Why? Because they think that will translate into career opportunity. It doesn’t. So the guy will be waiting table for the next 66 years.
The smart entertainment types generally figure this out and head to the right. So many entertainment types/pundits on the right have been ex leftists: Dave Rubin, Ronald Reagan, Charles Krauthammer, David Manet, David Horowitz, Tammy Bruce, Denis Miller, Andrew Klavan, etc. But sometime the entertainment type who stays on the left do so only because they need the security blanket of friends like some kind of support group — not that they really think they are going to make it. If they actually had great success they would probably flip out because of the pressures of the business and the realization that many people are not your friends. They would flip out because it really is a cut throat, competitive business with small chances of sustained success. So it is easier to “live the dream” of making it waiting tables, than actually making it.
It’s always great to be on your way to success...
“Increasingly, the Democratic Party features what social scientists call an hourglass structure, with a smattering of elites at the top and a vast working class on the bottom. It is those on the top who drive policy, and their interests don’t always coincide with the party’s longtime base.”
EXACTLY like the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin ... that is, until Donald Trump came along and easily vanquished the creaky, crumbling, neocon, “true conservatives” ...
The new Dems are white educated coastal collectivists, with a twist of anger, arrogance and soulless savagery.
Their assumption is that this will sell to the rest of the dems and the country as a whole.
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