The Tiny Life Raft of the Establishment

If you have somehow been living off the national security state and the foreign policy establishment, and all its extended organs, then you are most likely losing your mind about now, much like the political cartoonist who wrote this article.

Prominent on Drudge Report today above the fold. I opened it thinking it was going to be a dull lecture  to Sanders supporters who detest Hillary telling them why Hillary is actually the real deal for them. Instead it's brilliant x-ray of  Establishment thinking at the moment, and how blind they are to the reality on the ground. Godspeed to them on that raft.

quote from article: (emphasis mine).

One amateur political observer on my Facebook page called [Hillary] “Lady Trump.” Another one of my regular dyspeptic penpals calls her “Hildebeast,” and derided her appearance (yeah, yeah, pal: Tell it to Dan – dmorain@sacbee.com). 

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article79165287.html#fmp#storylink=cpy(emphasis mine) The sneering condescension of "amateur" sums up everything about the cadre of people who are being thrown out of all levers of power.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article79165287.html#fmp#storylink=cpyBrilliant commentary from a political cartoonist. 

I respected Dick Cheney as a frighteningly good pro gone bad. I thought Richard Nixon a genius who played hardball, which got way out of hand. Dan Quayle? Practically Machiavelli by today’s standards, and not at all a bad person. I don’t even think he was, you know, dumb.

Funny how people can see the world in such different ways.

This is the most telling part:

One amateur political observer on my Facebook page called [Hillary] “Lady Trump.” Another one of my regular dyspeptic penpals calls her “Hildebeast,” and derided her appearance (yeah, yeah, pal: Tell it to Dan – dmorain@sacbee.com).

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article79165287.html#fmp#storylink=cpy

(emphasis mine) The sneering condescension of amateur sums up everything about the cadre of people who are being thrown out of all levers of power.