Trounced by Trump

 Autopsy: Corporate power, war and genocide

By R - One Micki

The day after the Democratic Party lost the White House, lost the Senate and lost the House to Donald Trump and the Republicans, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) told reporters that “it should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.” “First it was the white working class that abandoned them and now it is Latino and Black workers as well,” Sanders said. “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.” “And they’re right.” To which former Sanders for President (2020) press secretary Briahna Joy Gray asked – “Then why didn’t you run yourself, or support a change candidate?” “What’s the point of being an Independent if you spend your political capital manufacturing consent for candidates who you, apparently, don’t even believe in?”

This election came down to corporate power, war and genocide. And the Democratic Party is pro-corporate, pro-war and pro-genocide. Strike three and you’re out. On economics, Harris couldn’t even appease her affluent young hipster core supporters. “When it came to the 2021 price hikes, one of the things people were frustrated about was the price of Ubers and Lyfts,” said reporter Ryan Grim the day after the election. “The only thing she could do is go after corporate greed. She starts doing that. Then she is told by Tony West, her brother-inlaw, not to do that anymore. Tony West is the top lawyer for Uber. It’s absurd. And that’s the Democratic Party. The problem with Democrats is that they have those people in their inner circle and they listen to them.” Harris billionaire supporters were sending signals that the corporate class would have a hammerlock on the White House if she was elected.