America shuns the establishment as outsiders eye the White House

[lovuian]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/13/america-shuns-establishment-outsiders-eye-white-house

Pundits may mock Trump, Sanders and Carson, but their campaigns chime with a disillusioned electorate

Until recently, Hillary Clinton was the election’s uncontested Democratic frontrunner. She was said to be intimidating, unbeatable, as strongly favoured as an incumbent. The biggest concern about her candidacy as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee was that her path to power would be too easy, leaving her rusty in a competitive general election. But as insiders continued to underperform in polls last week, that prophecy is looking increasingly like the rosy spin of operatives out of touch with the electorate. With the entire Democratic party establishment rallied around Clinton, it’s 74-year-old Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders who continues to surge. From Texas to Wisconsin to California, he’s been drawing huge crowds, overtaking Hillary in Iowa, according to a new Quinnipiac poll this week, and even besting her by a full nine percentage points in New Hampshire – traditionally safe territory for the Clintons – according to NBC.


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The pundits and political operatives who dismiss Trump, Carson and Sanders as jokes and political theatre might talk down about their supporters (largely middle America and pockets of white liberals) at cocktail parties or on the privacy of their own boats. But you won’t find them doing it on-air or in a public, professional capacity so often. That’s because to talk down to these supporters is to talk down to a very large segment of the populace. It’s an inherently pretentious, egg-headed argument and the very reason anti-establishment candidates have enjoyed so much traction to begin with: Americans know what establishmentarians think of them, and they’re mad as hell.

Interesting article from the Guardian

[underthematrix]

1. The American media is sad in a way because it gives

people a false sense of what the presidency is all about. But one of the basic problems is the media doesn't tell youis that the presumptive leader on both sides of the Presidential race becomes the leader of the party machine. Just the other day, Trump said he didn't know if the Constitution was a binding legal document. just let that float around in your brain for a minute. Ben Carson has told us he's never been in a leadership position. He's a nice man but he's definitely qualified to be president. Sanders has a great policy principles and some policy strategies but he hasn't explained to his audience that some of his policy will be tempered by the DEM platform. The Dem caucus decides how that will shape up. Sanders hasn't explained how his positions will affect down ticket elections when we really need to recapture the House and Senate. what about govships and state houses?

This is not a criticism of the candidates as much as it is a criticism of the electorate. We are too stupid to know what we don't know.