counterpunch | How do you sell elite rule to a 99% electorate? Well, don’t run
somebody like Hillary Clinton, a lackluster campaigner with more 1%
baggage than the Louis Vuitton stockroom.
There aren’t many politicians who can look you in the eye and say “I
work for the bankers…but I care about you” and get away with it.
Obama could. Clinton couldn’t. Now that Obama’s termed out, the
search is on for the telegenic candidate who checks the intersectional
boxes but knows on what side the world’s bread is buttered.
My bets are on Kamala Harris as the intersectional box-checking,
globalist friendly, appealing candidate now being groomed for a
presidential run. Sooner rather than later, I’d think.
Judging by Emmanuel Macron, a handsome youngster can be transformed
into a president even with a slim resume. Best thing is to get ‘em out
in front of the voters while they’re young and fresh, and before they’ve
had to accumulate too much of a track record of 1% accommodation.
That’s the Obama lesson. He came from nowhere and became President. Hillary came from somewhere and went nowhere.
It’s an interesting data point in the evolution of American politics
that the Democrats doing what the Republicans used to do: find a
charismatic front person who is also a tabula rasa to generate electoral
mass appeal for elitist policies.
The key task, and one I’m guessing Democratic strategists have
devoted a lot of effort to cracking, is how to convert the perceptual
framing from “99% v. 1%” to “degraded lumpen v. the quintessence of
America”.
Democratic Party liberalism pretty relies on meritocratic
technocratic model to make the elite rule pill easier to swallow: the
best and the brightest are recognized by an enlightened electorate and
handed the keys to the America-mobile.
The people who don’t vote for Team Demlib are *ahem* unenlightened:
low information voters, bigots, oh, what’s a good word? How
about…Deplorables!
So what should we call Demlibs? The wise? The The woke? How about…the Adorables?
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