biden talks like a neoliberal, but he governs more like a new deal democrat

…only without nearly so much racism, thank fuck.

I’ve been thinking about this the last couple of days, while also trying to write a really important article, the one explaining something critically important about the last few decades and how the conditions that required working the way we did are fucking over if we can hold just one last time under the old rules, before they’re gone.

They are about to be gone, let me make that real clear. Politics will look completely different in ’28, one way or another. If we win, it’ll be for the good.

And that’s what brings us to the last-minute push against Biden before the convention.

Like the headline says, Biden generally talks like a neoliberal. He talked like a neoliberal in 2020, too – albeit one who cared about climate change. I didn’t vote for him in the primaries.

But once in government, one of the first things he did was reset the Federal government’s course on anti-trust/anti-monopoly enforcement all the way back to before Reagan, back to the New Deal standard.

I know, I know, it sounds incredibly boring, some real inside-baseball oh-gods-who-gives-a-fuck but it’s also incredibly important, because it’s a massive choke on corporate power. Reagan’s change to anti-trust/monopoly enforcement is a big part of how corporations got so goddamn powerful, and this is a big, big lever to reverse it.

It’s one of those policy changes that’ll take real time to hit, but it is starting to hit, and the billionaires hate it. The billionaire owner of of CNN just said outright that his support comes down to whoever will “further deregulate,” which means “let me form a bigger monopoly media empire” in real talk.

And now he’s talking again about tax hikes on the very wealthy, and they hate that even more. That’s way less “neoliberal” and way more New Deal, and it’s about goddamn time we saw it.

Then he had a shitty, shitty, shitty debate. He’s a stutterer and he’s been a gaff machine his entire life, and that debate was just one huge showcase of all of that plus how goddamn old he is, and being ill makes all those sorts of problems so much worse. As someone who is super neurospicy, I assure you, I, too, get much worse if I am in significant pain and/or feeling very ill. I understand the panic, even though I don’t allow myself to indulge in it.

But I gotta wonder if his biggest sin at that debate – as far as the monied class was concerned – was going straight in saying the wealthy need to pay a lot more in taxes.

That’s a New Deal Democrat talking, and goddamn, the oligarch crowd hates it, seething with hate like Gollum seethes with hate at anyone who dares take his Precious.

I’m kinda thinking…

…that maybe they were willing to buy in on another neoliberal Democrat, because they really do hate Trump, just as a person…

…but what they got was the New Dealer nobody expected, and they really, really, really want to trade that New Dealer back in for another neoliberal.

And Biden sounding like death warmed over gave them the window they needed, so they went for it.

Why now? They didn’t have a lot of choice on the timing – before the convention, you can make a cogent argument that even though the fash absolutely will do everything they can to keep any Biden replacement off ballots, that they’d fail. Even with Trump’s courts.

You can’t make that argument after the convention. That really will be chaos.

There’s an observation going around social media suggesting that Biden went from “old” to “SENILE” the minute he said “the wealthy should pay more taxes.” I’m starting to think that makes a little too much sense to be ignored.

The billionaire class heard something they really didn’t like, and they’re taking their best shot at stopping it, and the sitting President who said it.

Something to consider, at the very least.

Something to think about.

115 days remain.

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(I wanted to use this, but it didn’t fit anywhere: “I don’t think people understand: Biden’s not a Baby Boomer. Biden is the last sanding of the generation before that, the Silents. They got skipped over in their prime. He’s one of them. And they were generally true believers in the New Deal, I am just saying.“)

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