Do They Understand How Political Parties Work?

I am still sorta amazed about how some educated people don't get that  what happened  with the Demticket switcheroo was a political party working the way it is supposed to.  There is individual ambition.  Then there is the ambition of the group.  And the ambition of the group matters more.  You are free to go it alone.  If you want the help of the group you agree.  the ambition of the group matters more.

I am not going to deeply deconstruct the essay from the WP by Jason Willick. But he goes into the matter and quotes DeTocqueville.  And even if he quotes the good bits, doesn't really get the real point.  This is how a political party is supposed to work.   But hey.  Even DeTocqueville didn't really get it even if he observed it and saw what was going on.  

"[a]s Tocqueville reminds us, a politician who impertinently challenges a political majority “has offended the only authority which is able to promote his success.”

That is the maybe not the point of a political party.  But it is how they work .  Otherwise, they are cults of personality, or captive to a ruling elite.  The party lost faith in Joe.  The end.  Thanks for your decades of work in our interest.  But now we need someone else to represent our interests.

Emphasis on our.

Back to Politics. What This Election is About.

America the ignorant. Thanks in great part to a mostly worse than useless news media (and pundits.) The meme of the week is that the presidential election is about character. Not entirely false, but that misses the bigger picture.

This election (like many before it) is about philosophy of government and governance, and economic theory, and particularly where the two overlap.

Jumping to the chase here, I will say Old Joe Biden got it right when he brushed off (the disturbingly insane, baseless) arguments of Romney and company that his experience in Private Equity is a good qualification to make him POTUS. What did Joe say? That is no more a qualification than being a plumber.

I gotta add to what Joe said. I would say the master plumber/contractor might be more qualified, though. At least the master plumber/contractor runs an actual business that competes in the delivery of actual services to an actual market. The Private Equity people are engaging in a cynical form of capitalism (which is inherently cynical to start,) that often is more about manipulation of resources for short term ROI, rather than the ordinary delivery of goods and services to a market. And like that guy said in the suppressed TED speech. Hiring people (creating jobs) is the last thing those bastids want to do.