Michael Bloomberg early on sidestepped the Democrats’ visibility race in favor of operating from the shadows. He opted out of early debates, which come with the scrutiny of questions and peer review. This demonstrates his elitist perspective, operating from the balcony rather than the stage, and handling voters as subjects rather than as equals.
His tsunami of media ads (costing $350 million – easily the largest ad expenditure in history) shows his conception of (and preference for) voters as passive receptacles for a Bloomberg story crafted by the world’s finest psych wizards and charismaticians. If we reject this kind of falsification by our president, why do we accept it in a Democratic candidate? By its very nature, it is unacceptable.
Bloomberg expects to escape the gravity of his own racist stop-and-frisk legacy (which directed New York City cops to an estimated five million assaults, primarily on minority males) with a simple apology and five years of memory haze.
It’s worth knowing that when U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that stop-and-frisk had been used in an unconstitutional manner, Bloomberg funded an all-out effort to discredit Judge Scheindlin and have her removed from the case. Now there’s commitment to rule of law, I mean overlord discrimination.
That kind of heavy-handed (though behind-the-scenes) manipulation of public trust is actually typical of Bloomberg. Throughout his political career, he has bought endorsements by heavily funding both high-profile nonprofit organizations and political allies’ campaigns.
Don’t vote in another oligarch.
Kirby MacLaurinDurango
