So, Gavin Newsom has a podcast and he’s hosting people like Steve Bannon and apparently getting along fairly well with them. This reminded me of something i was thinking the other day when reading MAGA (more like MIGA) tweets about how great it is to be persecuting anti-genocide students and the Universities who dare to let them speak their minds…
The Dems don’t care about the folks any more than the Republicans do, but they do care about being in government, if only because they make more money that way. This means that at least some of them — like Newsom — are going to try to start up some kind of Left-leaning Populism. If they succeed, they may very well get back into power as Trump’s margin wasn’t that big — a couple of million out of about 140 million votes, as i recall — and a LOT of those people aren’t necessarily MAGA, but pissed off working folks just wanting to hit back at the system, people pissed at inflation, the forever wars, de-industrialization, and so on. Now, what do you think a lot of those folks will do if a viable liberal populist comes along? LOL! I’ll tell you what they’ll do — they’ll jump over to the other side, especially now that Trump is acting more MIGA than MAGA!
This, if they can pull it off, will mean that in 4 or 8 years the Dems may be back in and the MAGA crowd, who have shown themselves to be just the old Republicans wearing new hats, will be up against the sort of censorious crap they are now inflicting on the opposition. Think it’s cool that folks are being kidnapped off the streets for opposing genocide? Wait a few years and the Dems will be kidnapping YOU off the streets for suggesting it may be time for another revolution, or that the “Marxists” in the Dem party need to be “dealt with.” Hell, things are so crazy that they might ratchet things up — just like they did in 2021 and like YOU are doing now — and start locking you up just for supporting “that fascist Trump,” or the “hate movement” called MAGA!
Just something for you clowns to think about as you cheer the lynching of people like Mahmoud Kalil. You won’t though, just as you didn’t learn from the persecution of the J6 protesters, and just as the Dems won’t learn from what’s being done to some of them now — because most politically active people are fools, and fools never learn.
P.S
As i finished this post, it occurred to me “i know shit about this Gavin Newsom guy. I should check out his record, see if he is that “viable liberal populist” we are looking for!” LOL! And you just KNOW i ain’t the only one doing that!
Addendum : Looked him up. This is not the hero we are looking for. Paused executions because they are “racist.” Expanded health cover to ILLEGALS while denying all Californians a single payer system. Promised to help the homeless, instead broke up homeless camps — in, at least one case, in PERSON — and vetoed bills that would have increased the number of people who can claim state housing assistance! Screwed over the Dalit by VETOING a bill to ban caste discrimination. Vetoed a bill that would have given unemployment insurance to workers on strike. BUT he made Cali a sanctuary state for “trans” youth, stopped a bill that would have forced schools to tell parents if their kid had gone nuts and started to wear a dress, and made team mascots based on Native American imagery literally ILLEGAL. Yep, he’s just the usual pseudo-liberal, IdPol asshole using racism etc to distract everyone from class issues. America needs this guy like it needs another Ronald Reagan!