Link. It is worth reading. It will not be excerpted here.
Everything written by Weaver is true.
What Weaver does not say, because it is a kind of heresy among Democratic Party inner party types, is --
They are in it for the money.
They are not in it to serve regular people but to have a prosperous career. There is no money in serving needs of regular folks who can not offer a green revolving door opportunity down the road. Schumer and Pelosi know that and service that greed in order to keep themselves where they are. Unless and until the green door is nailed shut - much as Luther nailed his theses to the church door - business as usual will remain in the driver's seat. It pays. Decency does not.
Two proofs? If you need more, then go on the web to fiind them.
These are my two favorites, one a party switcher, the other a clear careerist staying in the Dem background lurkings. And of all things, a Clinton hanger-on. First:
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| Norm, whose heart belongs to Cheney, a Dem in Skip Humphrey's Minn AG office, then a switch because Skip and others were ahead of him, Dem Party, for Guv. A career decision if there ever was one. Now running a GOP slush fund. |
Then read about this sleaze bucket; here and here. Different gender than Norm, but otherwise as skilled at seeing green. (Not Green New Deal; but greenbacks as ever, nothing new at all in that.) As in the Dylan song, "Lot of people have knives and forks on the table. Gotta eat something."
Am I wrong? Admittedly I could be misjudging circumstantial evidence, drawing an incorrect inference.
Read this. Then you decide, in light of your own view of sophistry and paychecks.
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Not to bias any deliberations you may have in mind, a have-to-read by Sirota and Perez at Daily Poster. This link. This excerpt:
The Next War Against A Public Option Is Starting - Tax records reviewed by The Daily Poster show a health care industry front group run by a former Hillary Clinton aide has amassed millions to block a public health insurance option.
[...] On Monday, after Biden said he would nominate Medicare for All supporter Xavier Becerra as his health secretary, the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future (PAHCF) issued a statement saying they “look forward to working with the Department of Health and Human Services under the new administration to build on and improve what’s working, where private coverage, Medicare and Medicaid work together to expand access to coverage and care, and fix what’s broken.”
PAHCF’s members include top lobbying groups representing health insurers, drugmakers and for-profit hospital conglomerates. Under the existing system that the group is defending, up to 12 million Americans have lost their medical coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, as health insurance industry profits have skyrocketed because people have avoided elective medical procedures.
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Pretending Millions Have Not Lost Their Health Insurance
PAHCF is led by a former top Hillary Clinton aide and operated out of the offices of Forbes Tate Partners, a D.C. lobbying firm run by former top Democratic staffers on Capitol Hill.
During the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign, PAHCF spent $4.5 million on television ads attacking Medicare for All, and it also spent millions this year to block a state level public option plan in Colorado.
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned in support of a public health insurance option to compete with health insurers, and his new HHS pick Becerra backed a public option when he served on the House Ways and Means Committee that considered such a proposal during Democratic health care reform efforts in 2009.
Back then, Becerra declared: “It would be difficult for me to believe that you could have meaningful reform of the system that will bring prices down and help provide coverage for all Americans who don't have it unless you have the options out there that really would create that competition.”
Yes, Sirota and Perez gave the link to the AHIP site with the Shaver bio. And, yes, without that I might have only had Norm and someone else to offer as careerist and/or revolving door examples. But Norm is who he is and has been, and there is no need to reinvent the wheel when juxtaposing a party-switching career path and a revolving door one. Either way, MONEY IN POLITICS is the villain.
How to fix that? Crabgrass only offers one idea - first you need to define the problem and keep eyes on the prize. Then methodology can evolve, as long as light continues to shine on the problem, whereas one can be misled by, "Nothing to see here, however if you look . . ." rhetorical trickery. The old shell game, three shells being traditional, but "the more shells the merrier" is a present-day driving mainstream media inclination.
FURTHER AND IN CLOSING - Old sayings are okay. You have to keep seeing the forest even when servants of the oligarchy keep pointing to this one tree, or that.
When career politicians end up multi-millionaires why be distracted from "WHY?"
Why do We the People tolerate it? Because two-party politics offers no choice?
Having only two parties was not handed down to Moses on the Mountain, engraved in stone, but when one party lies about CHANGE and HOPE while the other gave us the Bush family and the Trump family, a readjustment is needed.