Miriyam Rocah celebrates her 49th birthday next Sunday. Predictably, the Scarsdale multimillionaire hates Bernie and his progressive agenda. Less predictably-- kind of-- was how MSNBC, a division of Comcast, had her on yesterday morning to smear Bernie. David Gura invited her on his early morning show where she decided to tell the audience that Bernie "makes my skin crawl. I don't know why young girls support him." They then went to break and when they returned Gura hadn't asked her to leave the set nor to apologize to the audience, nor did he explain why Bernie is viewed most favorably of all 2020 Democratic candidates-- according to the latest Gallup poll, and, in fact, is more liked by women than by men and more liked by young women than by super-rich 49 year-old women from Westchester. Sorry that he makes Mimi's skin crawl. Greedy, selfish multimillionaires from shite Republican strongholds like Scarsdale have always made my skin crawl-- especially when they fight against social and economic justice while pretending to be "liberal" (while contributing to conservaDems like Heidi Heitkamp).Gallup's most current poll, conducted after the first July debates, showed that Democrats-- and independents who lean blue-- preferred six of the twenty candidates. Listed by favorability:Biden's favorability rating has continued to slide the more people get to know him. His highest score in terms of people wanting to vote for him, according the the RealClearPolitics polling averages, was on May 8 (41.4%). It's been down, down, down since then, all the way down to 26.0% on July 5. Among Iowa Democrats, he started out ahead by 13 points and is still ahead, by just by 8 points. Every time he opens his mouth, he loses support. Gallup reported that "In February, Biden was viewed favorably by 56% of all U.S. adults, including 80% of Democrats and 32% of Republicans. These ratings slipped marginally in April and again in July, resulting in significant cumulative declines. As Biden has pushed back against criticisms of him from certain Democrats and has taken more direct aim at President Donald Trump, he is now viewed favorably by 42% of all adults, including 69% of Democrats and 20% of Republicans... On a longer-term basis, Biden's overall favorable rating is back below 50% for the first time since he served as Barack Obama's vice president, when he was routinely below that level." Charts like this-- this was released yesterday-- scare super-wealthy Democrats and, apparently, make their skin crawl:According to Open Secrets, more women donors contributed to Bernie than to any other Democrat's campaign:
• Bernie- 9,701• Elizabeth Warren- 8,123• McKinsey Pete- 7,654• Kamala Harris- 5,957• Status Quo Joe- 5,025• Beto- 2,817• Amy Klobuchar- 1,751• Cory Booker- 1,736
Still, that doesn't answer Mimi's question about why "young girls" prefer Bernie. As Orange County Register political reported explained yesterday, the oligarch class-- like Mimi-- are generally behind Biden. "The oligarchs, roughly the top .01 percent, now own the highest share of wealth in almost a century. They can fund nonprofits, media outlets, campaigns and political action committees with almost unlimited largesse. The oligarchy’s wealthiest and most influential members hail from the tech sector, Wall Street and Hollywood. In recent decades they have created a plutocrat-funded Democratic Party backing economically non-threatening but culturally and environmentally liberal figures like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. At first Joe Biden seemed to be winning the battle for oligarchal support."As Biden has continued to sink, many are turning to other "economically non-threatening but culturally and environmentally liberal figures," particularly McKinsey Pete and Kamala Harris. This is Mimi's-- and MSNBC's "anyone but Bernie" crowd. Vox reporter Kay Steiger looked at why young women voters preferred Bernie, compared to Hillary in 2016. "One way to look at this dispute," she wrote back then, "is to see this fight as a symptom of a deep-seated feud with roots in feminist theory. But there's also a simpler way to look at it. Some people feel, strongly, that supporting the first woman president is an important feminist act. Others feel, strongly, that supporting the biggest backer of the social safety net is an important feminist act... [Y]oung women are going for Clinton's rival, Bernie Sanders, by an overwhelming margin. To older feminists, this might feel like something of a betrayal. To younger feminists, voting for a man who offers policies that help people-- especially women-- is not a rejection of feminism. It's also feminism. Younger feminists do care about putting a woman in the White House someday, but they also care about fighting racism, reforming immigration policy, and-- perhaps this is why Sanders's message is resonating so much with young voters-- leveling the economic playing field for all... Sanders's more optimistic vision of the future might hold some of the appeal rather than Clinton's defense-oriented one."
