Gazza M wrote:
the war room was fascinating. carville definitely had a magnetic presence, but nowadays seems embittered that someone like sanders is gaining traction and that the clintonian heritage is being rejected by voters.
He's seemingly clueless as to why it's being rejected too. You will never get this point across to corporate media I suspect, and even less so someone like Carville who has a republican wife with whom he runs a consulting firm that is literally named Gaslight Inc (I mean, seriously), but the bottom line is that the party divide is not over ideology, but how much people have in their bank accounts.
I suspect the main takeaway from this election is going to be that people genuinely don't give a shit about the communist smear that MSNBC and the Democratic Leadership Countil are trying to defame Bernie with. They care about things like not having to die just because they get sick, about being paid a living wage for working full hours, and about being able to put their kids through school. They don't want to die from the effects of climate change.
If this out-of-control brand of capitalism that Carville loves so dearly actually worked for most people then Hillary would be about to start her second term. But very few who make money off a broken system will ever concede that it doesn't work. Case in point: Carville's own net worth is north of $10 million. 99 percent of the population is never going to see that much money in their lives. They could pool together everything they've earned, everything their parents and grandparents earned, and everything their own children will earn, and they'll still never be close. People like Carville lose when you bring tax rates back in line with the rest of the industrialised world, just like Kanye West loses. People think it's crazy that Kanye turns up with a MAGA hat to his shows, but Trump has saved the Kardashians and their families a solid billion or so that the government would otherwise have taken back and put into wellfare programs.
And that's the real reason you've got Carville standing next to Michael Bennet in New Hampshire, looking like a scab that is about to fall off a bruised knee, and screaming about the devil and holy water. He claims he's 'scared to death' about losing the election, but at the same time he's backing a no-name oligarch who's literally polling at less than one percent. He's just a terrible human, and he has realised that time is running out for him.
