Rich People Publicly Complaining About Elizabeth Warren Is A Contribution To Her Campaign

[BeyondGeography]

By Michael Arceneaux

For months now, a certain sect of Democrats have made their preference for the next presidential candidate abundantly clear.

After the third presidential debate, it was unsurprising to see Steve Rattner, American financier who served as lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the auto industry in 2009 for the Obama administration and now serves as an economic analyst on television, do what many white male pundits and like-minded centrists on television have done all primary season: grade Joe Biden on a curve. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Rattner said Biden did “well enough” — presumably not at all concerned with criticism over Biden’s troubling answer to a question about how to rectify systematic racism with a condescending lecture to Black parents that involved record players...

It’s one thing to debate whether or not Warren’s ideas will work, but it’s another to totally disregard them as unrealistic or too extreme. Frankly, only inhumane ghouls find adequate wages and fairer taxation to be political death kneels — which is probably why some of these alleged Democrats would rather vote for the sociopathy who locks babies in cages than the policy wonk who wants to make life in America not solely be best enjoyed by the wealthy and the elite.

But that’s what these rich people on television are trying to do. They do so in order to maintain the status quo.

Elizabeth Warren thinks the rich get off too easily. It’s not exactly breaking news, but it is a message voters have long wanted to hear. GOP pollster Frank Luntz recently said on CNBC’s Squawk Box, “Warren is gaining more than any other candidate because her base support is more intense than any other candidate.” He added, Warren is “new and she is different and she delivers that message much more effectively.”

And how do these people respond to it? By speaking in ways that tend to prove her right.

I know America fetishes its rich. We are sold the dream of meritocracy, thus, this novel idea that if you manage to become ultra-wealthy in this country, you must be smart!

There are enough rich dummies around to dispel that myth yet it lingers, but for further convincing, let the recent rantings of these coddled rich folks on TV and in Democratic fundraising circles serve as an additional counterpoint. Because if these people were smart, they’d stop making an unintended campaign contribution to Warren’s campaign.

They probably won’t, and for that, I am most grateful.

https://www.essence.com/op-ed/elizabeth-warren-rich-people-complaints/

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we don't have time for this crap. Who is the best candidate to take it to trump and win the Electoral College which means state by state? Forcus on that.