OK, so now Democrats are throwing chairs, cursing and making death threats, all directed at those guiding the Party in the direction of Hillary Clinton. Hey! - where's the cacophony of voices blaming Hillary for all of the is mischief and even violence?!? Didn't we learn from the Republican primary season that Trump was at fault for those misbehaving in Trump's direction? Why, then, isn't Hillary at fault for what went on in Nevada?
The answer, of course, is that neither Hillary nor Trump is responsible for this type of nonsense. The people responsible are, well, the people who are doing what they're doing. (Duh.)
I point all this out, though, just to show the duplicity of any number of left-leaning commentators. Boy, it would really be something to see them saying, out of respect for consistency, that Hillary needs to behave differently in order to quell all the violence. Ha.
If there is an external encouragement of misbehavior here, I think that it revolves around systems that are implemented or even designed to thwart the will of the people. The Republican system was corrupt in its implementation, as the Establishment plotted (really, plotted) to try to hijack the convention away from the people's clear choice. The Democratic system, on the other hand, is corrupt structurally, with superdelegates that are there for the clear, express and admitted purpose of thwarting the will of the People in the event that the People have been adjudged to have gone awry.
Trump talked about possible riots in the event that party elders tried to wrest the Republican nomination. He wasn't encouraging riots, but rather was expressing a likely state of play. It's tough to watch the System countering the will of the People. And now we're seeing it on the Democratic side, as Sanders supporters become more focused on the structural impediments that the System has erected against the Senator. Disenfranchisement is a dangerous thing. To quote a line from School of Rock, "Stick it to the Man." I'm not trying to justify the behavior; I'm just trying to explain it.
Rachel Maddow once pointed out to Jimmy Fallon (I'm paraphrasing) that Trump had driven a wedge between the Republicans. On one side were the Beltway professionals and other members of the Establishment. On the other side were . . . the voters. Genius. Bernie Sanders seems to be doing the same thing now, on the Democratic side.
Wouldn't it really be something to see a Republican lovefest in Cleveland, and a Democratic riot in Philly. Who'd'a thunk it. Who'd'a thunk ANY of this.
See you in November.
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