Nature and Politics Abhor Vacuums
P. Schultz
Below is a
link to an article in The Guardian
that is right on the money regarding the Democrats and our current political
situation. It is well worth reading. Here is how I would put it:
Although
you may not [and should not] like (a) that Trump won and (b) his kind of
politics which are despicable, nonetheless he filled the political vacuum
created by our ruling class as represented by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and
B. Obama. Hillary couldn't fill it because she and her kind of politics helped
create it. Bernie tried but was defeated by status quo Democrats like Hillary,
Pelosi, Bill Clinton, and Democratic Party rules: "Democratic primary
rules put in place after the party’s disastrous
nomination of South Dakota senator George McGovern in 1972 meant that, unlike
Republicans leaders who were incapable of stopping Trump, establishment
Democrats could hold off the Sanders surge." By "holding off"
Sanders, the status quo Democrats shot themselves in the foot, proving that
they are, these days, irrelevant. Nature and politics abhor vacuums.
You want evidence of the vacuum you
say? How about a war that has gone on in Afghanistan and Iraq for almost two
decades? Obviously, the ruling class has no way out of the debacle they have
created and are forced to continue this war fruitlessly. How about a national
security state that doesn’t provide security, either for “we the people” or
even for the secrets it wants to keep? How about an economy that can’t support
a thriving middle class? How about a political order that can only deal with
its black citizens by incarcerating them at exponential rates? How about a war
on drugs that the drugs and the drug dealers are winning?
The current or previously ruling
class has created a situation it can no longer control, except by making it
worse. When any ruling class reaches such a state, it is no longer relevant and
will be replaced. The only real question is: What will the replacement
political order be like? So far, Trump is providing an answer for which the
status quo Democrats – and Republicans – have no response.
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