Our new unwitting strawman

Hallelujah, our new savior has announced himself. It is Howard Schultz who will bring order out of chaos and convince everyone to follow him Tuesday wonderful world devoid of selfishness, partisanship, biases and ignorance. Of course, two lunches crusade he has to use the phraseology of all of those with messianic afflictions. Thus he says" the system is broken". He all that says" I am the only one who can fix it". Gee, I'm trying to remember who was the last one who said that.

In short, he is the most recent purveyor of dystopic bullshit and redemptive fantasies. The system isn't broken. Our institutions are still in place, we just have unfortunately the wrong people in important places, particularly our ignorant, incompetent, delusional buffoon of the president. We also have a Senate majority leader who is impressed with his own importance and power. If any system needs to be changed, it is the rules of the United States Senate. They are self-inflicted and can be changed by the next elected Senate.

Schultz somehow believes that 40% of the population is thoughtful and reasonable and has awaited only his arrival. This is delusional and utter nonsense. There are center right voters and centerleft voters but they are primarily left and right. The right believes in less government lower taxes and less regulation; the left believes in higher taxes for the wealthy more government programs and not dismantling the regulatory framework. Now the talking bobble heads on 24 hour TV argue whether he will take more votes from the right or the left. He has been a Democrat and his tendencies will be centerleft, he will attract more support from the left than the right. It will not nearly be enough to elect him but it could have the effect of allowing our resident idiot to be reelected. It is in this respect that he is an unwitting strawman for the Trump supporters. He is a perfect strawman because it appears that he is overwhelmed by his own visions and totally unable to see reality.

He is also an unwitting strawman for the radical right, The Koch brothers, Grover Norquist and the rest. Their message is that the system is broken and not repairable. Government needs to be shrunk down to practically nothing and allow the forces of the market to cleanse the systems. This is approximately what Andrew Mellon said in 1929-32.

It is entirely possible that Schultz, in combination with some  dumb things democrats will say about each other in the primaries will be enough to allow Trump to be reelected. Democrats have to have a single focus and that is to ensure that Trump is not reelected. That means they need a candidate who can run well in Michigan Wisconsin Ohio Pennsylvania. It also means this nitwit Schultz needs to get out of the way.