Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Unlike the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren doesn’t radiate contempt, loathing, and horror at the task of mingling with the hoi polloi. Rather, she has become famous for staging lengthy sessions after campaign speeches to pose for selfies with her fans. The selfie-seekers, you will notice, are all women. It’s heartwarming as all get out. This is at the center of Senator Warren’s strategy for winning the next election: to cage all of the women’s vote and become the President of all the women of the United States.
It’s a shrewd strategy, to turn the election into a gender-bonding contest, but elections have turned on equally fatuous premises, probably more often than not. Paradoxically, the lumbering President Trump, with his bay window belly, mystifying bouffant, fourth-grade vocabulary, and grab-them-by-the-pussy approach to romance, scored 53 percent of women’s votes last time around. Perhaps that was more a reflection of his opponent’s titanic loathsomeness than of Mr. Trump’s charms. But it only underscores Ms. Warren’s gambit: all she has to do is swing a generous majority of American women over to her side.
She is, in many ways, an exemplar of her sex. She’s made the best of her corn-fed Oklahoma looks. At 69, she capers energetically around the hustings in spanx and Nina McLemore jewel-toned, popped-collar jackets as though she were America’s yoga instructor, an appealing addition to her previous career as a distinguished Harvard law professor. She scores well on the feelings and sharing index, qualities that most men can only caricature. (Claiming to be a Cherokee was a forgivable way of sharing — sharing useful identities for career advancement.) And she has a palpable edge of anger about all the swindles and injustices in American life today, especially those spawned on Wall Street by the financial patriarchy — hey, who can argue with that one? If she has a husband (she has, Harvard law prof Bruce H. Mann) he might as well be hiding under a rock.
Ms. Warren’s big sell at this point in the campaign is Medicare for all, nationalized single-payer health care. The appeal is obvious: for one thing, other civilized countries manage to provide it for their citizens. And despite the counter-claims that “people like their health insurance,” the world has probably never seen such a pitiless, odious racket as the current system in the USA. Ask the schnooks forced to take their kids to the emergency room who end up stuck with bills for $6000 for a few stitches. Ms. Warren proposes something that would turn medicine into something more like the motor vehicle bureau with doctors — if you could find any doctors who would willingly sign on, which I doubt. And, of course, because it evokes such strong feelings of maternal sympathy, Ms. Warren also avidly raised her hand to support free health care for illegal immigrants, too, as a companion piece to the Democrats’ open borders policy.
Ms. Warren might win the nomination and even the election just on that portfolio of qualities, especially if the economy goes in the tank under the Golden Golem of Greatness, where it is apparently headed as I write, if you look at dismal car sales and the stats on plummeting world trade. There’s more than a year before the election for that scene to worsen. In the event, though, President Warren would be stuck on-the-job in a second Great Depression much worse than the one of the 1930s.
I doubt she could FDR her way through it. America back then still had plenty of everything except cash money. Lots of oil, ores, factories, and well-regimented workers. Now we’re officially $22 trillion in debt. The remaining oil costs so much to get out of the ground it’s bankrupting the oil companies. The ores are gone. The factories stand in ruin. And the workforce has degenerated into various mobs demanding something for nothing. The coming disposition of things will be less a depression than a long emergency of permanent contraction, and even Ms. Warren’s zesty grandmotherly charms may not avail to preserve the civil order under those conditions.
The picture I draw is admittedly severe, but what troubles me as much is the prospect of a civil war between the sexes. Things are already bad enough, as witnessed this week by the latest campaign by The New York Times to take down Judge Kavanaugh in the sensationally mendacious reporting by Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly. The educated class of American women is earning a reputation for dishonesty and wickedness every bit as bad as the patriarchy they inveigh against. And believe it or not, men are still out there, even some heroic ones, and they won’t stand for this nonsense forever.
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The good news is Pokey is drawing crowds
While Clinton is still complaining that she was cheated.
I suspect Clinton will have to enter soon before Warren , Bernie Sanders her again.
Enough votes will later be found in riverbottoms and rental car trunks to cast doubt on the whole shitshow.
Besides, the election is really just a travelling circus in town for one night only!
http://mileswmathis.com/trump2.pdf
She is a wet noodle, really attacking Wall St, will vaporize her support from the elite, selling socialized medicine is a gambit, and she is a liar that stole a college education and a nice job from a Native American, dont think for second Team Trump will not lay it out in such stark terms. They will probably find THE Native American she stole the degree from and put them on TV for weeks.
Also even the sheeple can “feel” the shifting Global sands, can she handle the task? She will need to bend the knee to China, a task she is well suited and positioned for, but how will this fit in the Narrative Oct/Nov 2020? Might be an anchor vs. wings. Word is spreading, China is spoiling, no longer sweet.
That leaves the Economy, Trump has it under control, 3 or 4 more rate drops, plus QE 5,6,7,8,9…whatever it takes, he can juice the shit out this limping horse and get it around the track 1 more time, no doubt.
El lies a bit Warren is a dud.
Nice try.
Hillary would have been installed in 2016 but she got sick.
She won the popular and electoral college by a wide margin.
http://mileswmathis.com/trump2.pdf (best 11 pages of voting shit you’ll every read)
Barf….barf more…barf….
Nina Mc Lemore jewel toned jackets and the yoga instructor mention caught my attention ha…should help get my vote…
oh wait….what about the 2nd amendment…or the late term abortions….or my taxes…or my fossil fuel consumption…..or listening to fake climate shit…or having her actually announce a foreign policy thought…or having her as my son’s commander in chief………or having liberals get care while conservatives wait their rightful turn under healthcare for all…….paradise on earth….not….
Look at these idiots, the Dems are truly fucked, there is a distinct possibility they will shatter as a party, perhaps even before the election as the Establishment Dems cling, and the Communist make their move.
Trump will break them.
If the Democrats were honest they would just rebrand themselves the Socialist Party.
After looking at this graphic, does Warren really seem so bad?
Normandy? You mean when we were finishing off our natural allies the Germans? Yeah, OK, Kurt. Point taken, but I would have used better example of our accomplishments.
Kurt is either dense or quietly receiving a modest check in every month for what he writes and doesn’t write- if you know what I mean.
Sort of like how Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, Paul Craig Roberts, and other big government .gov drone columnists receive big monthly checks for being obedient, status quo columnists.
If you want to bring down a society, go after the women. Emotions trump everything else. EVERYTHING. Women don’t even like to work with or for other women.
I agree with your point to a point.
So goes the women, so goes the civilization, and it ain’t looking good.
If you really want to bring down a society though, go after the men.
Jewish whores were inserting themselves into marriages with European men for ages, before Europe exported so many of the resulting part-Jews to America.
Believe me, white men are more attracted to Jewish green eyes and nice tits than white women are attracted to Jewish hook noses and mutilated dicks.
No mention of the 100th anniversary of the 19th next August?
2020 is the year of the RAT.
–Don’t ERPo me BRo–
Somehow, I don’t see this hectoring scold appealing to anyone but bitter older womyn in yoga pants who in their dotage still have fantasies about taking down the patriarchy . Although, bitter older womyn do comprise a pretty sizable demographic in the Democratic party.
Age is irrelevant, bitter scolds come in all ages and colors. Female democrats are the party of fish wives…
Don’t you people understand, Clinton was a lock for the 2016 presidency until she got sick?
Then they had to fake the shit out of the election for Trump who absolutely doesn’t want the job now and didn’t want the job then.
http://mileswmathis.com/trump2.pdf
She offered nothing. More Obama crap.
Holy shit! You garnered more downvotes than me, all in one thread!
Why was I booted off here and Commie scum like you weren’t???
Truly. How the fck can we take any of this seriously. It’s beyond ad absurdum.