For the Children!
The Stunning Banality of Democratic Messaging for 2024
It’s not often I get a personal letter signed by former President Barack Obama. It came in yesterday’s mail, and of course it was a fundraising letter for the DNC and the Biden campaign for 2024. Obama is selling Joe Biden as “delivering a better future for our children and grandchildren,” but how the future will be better because of Biden is left unspecified.
Biden, I’m told, is for freedom and opportunity. He wants “a brighter, more inclusive, more hopeful future,” whereas the Republicans are “extreme” and want to give “even more tax breaks for billionaires” along with banning more books and attacking “our fundamental rights.”
Well, obviously the Democrats are against Republicans and for freedom, our children, and I suppose puppies and rainbows as well. And Biden, according to Obama, “feels the struggles of American families in his bones.” No wonder Biden looks so old and moves so slowly!
Seriously, nothing in the letter tells me how Biden is going to help those struggling American families. There’s not a word about raising the federal minimum wage, about single-payer health care, about student loan debt relief, about helping the unhoused, and so on. Remember LBJ’s ambitious “War on poverty” in the 1960s? Forget about anything like that. Just vote for Joe, “who truly knows how to get things done in Washington.” Really?
If American families are struggling, as they are, shouldn’t Biden be working his tail off to get them the relief they need? There’s no help in vapid phrases like Biden “carries your dreams with him wherever he goes.” No wonder he’s muddled and confused at times: he’s carrying all our conflicting dreams with him in his head.
I’m not sure the photo postcard included with this fundraising plea sends the message the DNC wanted to send. It shows Obama and Biden yukking it up. What about those suffering families, Barack and Joe?
The absolute gall of Obama. Biden and his neocon handlers have done more to ensure that our "children and grandchildren" will have no future at all beyond the first ATACMS launch or false flag attack on Ukraine or Russia.
Campaign clutter should always be returned to the DNC or RNC in its self-addressed envelope with a clear, assertive reply, consistent with "Go f#ck yourself!"
Well, you have to hand it to Biden's campaign team. I'm sure that isn't the last pitch from that great pitch-man , B.O. After all, look how well he drew all those suckers into the con with his pitch about "Hope and Change You Can Believe In" ! Of course, as Sarah Palin put it not so long thereafter, "How's That Hopey-Changey Stuff Working Out For Ya?". I'm not in her fan club, so naturally, her disappointments would differ greatly from mine; but still she rightly pointed out the emptiness of that campaign-time rhetoric.
At any rate, we know Biden gives us absolute zero reason for hope, and he already promised in his previous run, "nothing will fundamentally change". So that puts the lie to Obama's line that "Biden feels the struggles of American families in his bones", and certaintly to BO's promise that Biden will deliver a better future for our children and grandchildren.
But hey, this is nothing new under the sun for those the Party allows to rise to the top. Empty rhetoric, hucksterism and the big con. They don't have to do anything more than trigger, with evocations of mom and apple pie, the Pavlovian responses they hope will translate to votes.