Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:
I sent out the following note just a few minutes ago to Western Maryland Green New Dealers, and I think it can serve as a decent commentary on the Democratic Primary and the coming debates. The Klein article also quotes a Wall Street lawyer in a comical description — well, to some, anyway — of how the Street wants to “rotate the crops.”
Here is my Email:
Dear Western Maryland Green New Dealers:
I thought these two columns were well worth reading before our Monday meeting at St. John's Episcopal Church in Frostburg, 6:00 PM.
Here is the first, from Naomi Klein, at the Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/21/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-progressive/
My friend Bill Wolfe thought the Klein article was re-positioning Naomi towards Warren, but I see it as more neutral, descriptive.
She references an article about Joe Biden's speech from earlier in the week, in New York, covered here at the Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-wont-demonize-the-rich_n_5d09ac63e4b0f7b74428e4c6
I've called this type of speech, classic Bill Clinton (and then Hillary to the banks) and Barack Obama style, the Democratic Centrist "Two-Step." This is what has helped enrage a good portion of our citizenry against "liberal" democratic politics in the 1990's and on: one message, usually more "populist" to the public, and another to the donors and Wall Street funders.
For our agrarians, there is a hilarious reference in the Klein piece by a Wall Street commentator on how they are playing the field against Sanders and Warren by "rotating the crops." Here are the two paragraphs; I wanted to end on a "lighter" note...
“'It is important to rotate the crops,” David Adelman, a financial industry lawyer, told the New York Times. He was ostensibly explaining why he had co-hosted a fundraiser for Beto O’Rourke, but in doing so, he also summed up precisely how Wall Street sees Washington: as its plantation. It engineers the seeds, plants them, then reaps what it sowed.
These forces, and the think tanks they finance, want the Warren and Sanders camps at each other’s throats, demoralizing and weakening each other. Because that’s exactly how the progressive bloc stalls or shrinks enough for Biden (or some newer political GMO crop) to walk away with it."
Best,
Bill of Rights
Frostburg, MD