1968 - the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll sons and daughters of privilege rioted to force the nomination of the George McGovern instead of the Democratic Party Establishment's preferred candidate, Hubert Humphrey, a mere Civil Rights pioneer and old hand of the Farmer-Labor Party. Those thus betrayed largely rallied to Nixon, and then went on to back Reagan and George Waterboarding Bush in enormous numbers. We all know the consequences for Civil Rights, for farmers, and for those who labour.
2008 - the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll sons and daughters of privilege have become the Democratic Party Establishment. But nobody has needed to riot in order to block the nomination of their preferred candidate. Those whom they have betrayed over and over again for forty years have delivered that entirely peacefully.
Revenge is a dish now being served stone cold.
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No riots (yet)!
ReplyDeleteJust giving states that backed Hillary "half-votes"!
So much more civilised!
On the other hand, as Britain's Tories found in the late 1990s, rigging elections in your own party is one thing...
I can just about imagine rioting by the pro-Clinton white working class in Michigan, but the pro-Clinton ageing feminists and upper-middle-class Jews of Florida really don't strike me as the rioting type. They didn't even take to the barricades when their votes were discounted in a real election in 2000.
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