{"id":176048,"date":"2020-09-18T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/18\/they-have-forgotten-nothing-and-they-have-learned-nothing\/"},"modified":"2020-09-18T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T23:24:00","slug":"they-have-forgotten-nothing-and-they-have-learned-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/18\/they-have-forgotten-nothing-and-they-have-learned-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"They Have Forgotten Nothing, and They Have Learned Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that the Biden campaign is determined to repeat the litany of f%$#ups that the Clinton campaign used in 2016.<\/p>\n

Case in point, the Biden campaign is nearly invisible in crucial states that Hillary Clinton lost<\/a>, including ignoring the ground game in crucial swing states.<\/p>\n

The campaign is studiously avoiding creating campaign offices in swing states. <\/p>\n

These mooks (including in 2016 one named Robbie Mook) spent a huge amount of money duing things like running the numbers up in California through a large media buy that served no purpose but to enrich politically connected consultants.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is less the party leadership than it is a group of bunco artists who find the party convenient for lining their own pockets:<\/p>\n

Contrary to the mantra of the \u201cResistance.\u201d \u201cRussia, Russia, Russia,\u201d the primary reason for Clinton losing in 2016 was most likely that she didn\u2019t campaign properly in many battleground states. This is something Clinton had control over, and she just refused to do it.<\/p>\n

Biden apparently feels or thinks or some perverse combination of the two, similarly. Time:<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even find a sign,\u201d Sabbe says outside a Kroger\u2019s in Sterling Heights, where surrounding cars fly massive Donald Trump flags that say \u201cNo More Bullsh-t\u201d and fellow shoppers wear Trump T-shirts for their weekend grocery runs. \u201cI\u2019m looking for one of those storefronts. I\u2019m looking for a campaign office for Biden. And I\u2019m not finding one.\u201d <\/p>\n

The reason Sabbe can\u2019t find a dedicated Biden campaign field office is because there aren\u2019t any around here. Not in Macomb County, the swing region where Sabbe lives. It\u2019s not even clear Biden has opened any new dedicated field offices in the state; because of the pandemic, they\u2019ve moved their field organizing effort online. The Biden campaign in Michigan refused to confirm the location of any physical field offices despite repeated requests; they say they have \u201csupply centers\u201d for handing out signs, but would not confirm those locations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is truly insane. Absolute and complete malpractice. <\/p>\n

Democrats are completely vicious when taking down someone like Sanders, but they don\u2019t even bother to try when it comes to winning national elections against Republicans. To all appearances they actually don\u2019t care if Biden wins, or Trump loses. <\/p>\n

Or they are completely incompetent. <\/p>\n

Why not both?<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect Democrats lose because not just because they are incompetent but because they don\u2019t actually care. Losing is fine, they\u2019ll still be OK. Pelosi will still be rich as Croesus, Biden will be fine, Harris will fine. Winning is nice enough, but they don\u2019t need to win. They don\u2019t even have a power drive, they\u2019re people with sinecures protecting them savagely, but since they don\u2019t need to win to keep their comfortable lives, only keep control of the party, they are only savage to those who threaten their control of the party (the left), not to the right. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me remind you of the Iron Law of Institutions, which states that power WITHIN<\/b> an organization is pursued at the expense of the power OF<\/b> that organization.<\/p>\n

They care less about winning and losing, even losing to Trump, than they do about maintaining their power, status, and revenue streams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that the Biden campaign is determined to repeat the litany of f%$#ups that the Clinton campaign used in 2016. Case in point, the Biden campaign is nearly invisible in crucial states that Hillary Clinton lost, including ignoring the ground game in crucial swing states. The campaign is studiously avoiding creating campaign offices in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,588,642,374,405,406],"class_list":["post-176048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-fail","tag-iron-law-of-institutions","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}