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| Dem Dot Coms vs. Trump's Soldiers and Steelworkers |
| 2019-07-19 |
| [SultanKnish] Politics has its style and its substance. Style requires the 2020 candidates to stump in New Hampshire diners and eat corn dogs at Iowa fairs. These stylistic rites of passage in American politics are on the verge of irrelevance as the kingmakers in California push up their primary and as the effort to eliminate the electoral college gains traction among the 2020 Democrats and, more importantly, their donors. Forget the New Hampshire diners and Iowa corn dogs, the truth can be found if you follow the money. The 2020 race is all about touting the democracy of small donors with a 130,000 donor threshold for the third Democrat debate. But certain zip codes keep coming up for the top Democrat candidates. The 100XX zip codes of Manhattan, the 90XXX zip codes of Los Angeles, the 94XXX zip codes of San Francisco, the 98XXX zip codes of Seattle, the 20XXX zip codes of D.C. and the 02XXX zip codes of Boston. These are the core zip codes of the Democrat donor base. They are the pattern that recur in the campaign contributions lists of the top Democrats. And they explain the politics of the 2020 race. Providing free health care for illegal aliens at taxpayer expense may not be very popular nationwide, but is commonplace in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Boston. Gun control is a loser nationwide, but a sure thing in the big blue cities. Even proposals to take away private health plans, allow rapists and terrorists to vote from prison, and open the border pick up more support there. The 2020 Democrats aren’t speaking to Americans as a whole. Instead they’re addressing wealthy donors from 6 major cities, and some of their satellite areas, whose money they need to be able to buy teams, ads and consultants to help them win in places like New Hampshire and Iowa. New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles show up in the top 5 donor cities for most of the top 2020 candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg. Boston shows up in the top 10, not only for Bernie and Warren, but for Kamala and Buttigieg. Seattle appears in the top 10 for Bernie, Warren, and Buttigieg. Washington D.C. features in the top 10 for Bernie, Booker, Warren, Kamala, and Buttigieg. And the rest of America doesn’t really matter. Not if you’re a Democrat. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Antifa has been organizing shooting clubs... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-07-19 20:56 |
| #5 The question to answer is, who has the guns? The Progs or the righteous patriotic right thinking Americans? |
| Posted by: Fester Elmaique2675 2019-07-19 17:27 |
| #4 Hmm... in the mobile app era no one says "dot com" anymore. Not sure this will ever get legs. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-07-19 12:03 |
| #3 I'll have to steal that "dot-communist" line. I think I was using "SovietAmerica.com" before I got sick. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-07-19 10:59 |
| #2 Dot communists |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-07-19 06:23 |
| #1 These donors come from the two groups in our society that are most estranged from social reality: techies and university employees. People working in these two environments live in a fairyland of virtue signaling. Their disdain for the military and for manufacturing physical things is grounded in almost total ignorance. They loathe religion, sneer at traditional European and western culture, hate Israel and think "white supremacy" lurks behind any opposition to identity politics idiocy. At the same time they are a protected class that offers our politicians a cushy and lucrative landing pad after their Washington tour's finished. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-07-19 02:53 |