Old-school Democrats, friends of the working man and his labor unions, enemies of heartless big corporations and bankers, are less than happy with the people running today’s Democratic Party.
This unhappiness found eloquent expression on Monday this week in the U.S. edition of the Guardian, Britain’s main Cult Marx propaganda outlet.
The writer here was veteran lefty commentator Thomas Frank, who had a bestseller back in the 2004 election cycle with his book What’s the Matter with Kansas?. In that book he wondered aloud why American working people in places like Kansas were voting for the Republican Party, which mirrored their personal and social values, rather than the Democratic Party, which — according to Frank — represented their true economic interests.
Well, here was this old lefty on Monday in the Guardian with a scathing piece on the Wikileaks emails; precisely, on those leaked from the email account of John Podesta, Mrs Clinton’s campaign manager.
Podesta’s emails, says Frank, offer, quote, "a window into the soul of the Democratic party and into the dreams and thoughts of the class to whom the party answers," end quote.
Peering in through that window he sees a smug, wealthy elite of bankers, Silicon Valley billionaires, consultants, tame academics, and executives of nonprofit foundations awash with loose cash. They all know each other; they all vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, the Hamptons, or Malibu; they get each other jobs for their kids and grants for the academics; they hand out favors in return for donations.
Says Thomas Frank, quote:
Yes, it’s all supposed to be a meritocracy. But if you aren’t part of this happy, prosperous in-group — if you don’t have John Podesta’s email address — you're out.If Frank wasn’t such a die-hard old lefty, I'd say we have a Trump voter right there. At some level, he gets it. He sees what we Trump voters are seeing, and is just as disgusted by it as we are.
Come aboard, Mr Frank — help us drain the swamp!