Bloomberg: Just Another Democrat
Mr. Bloomberg has disappointed me. I just finished Ken Stern's book Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right, and I had a hopeful moment.
At its core, this book suggests that Americans still have a lot more that unites them than they do that divides them. The problem is that we are getting our information from silos that profit from instilling fear and demonizing our political other. We are increasingly in either red or blue neighborhoods, and are learning to see the other as pretty much evil.
And - this is all me now - we are not satisfied with the status quo; we have a sense that those in Washington have abandoned us. They are either owned by big business or have radical interest groups to answer to.
And I thought maybe Bloomberg, the Democrat who became Mayor of New York as a “Republican,” the successful businessman, might be in it because he realised the Democrats have gone too far afield. I hoped he sees that what most people want is someone from and for the middle.
I thought maybe Bloomberg is the one who could stand up and rally the Democrats back to the center. I thought maybe if he could find a hundred men of business to influence the party back to the middle, we might just have a chance.
I went into Shabbat thinking maybe I could work for him. I came out of Shabbat, and what I found on my Facebook feed was a Bloomberg ad accusing President Trump of being unhinged, and obviously asking my support to unseat this madman, and then I visited his page today, and he's just another version of the bankrupt “anything but Trump.”
And for me, that's just not a platform worth betting on. I need a vision, a platform for all Americans, not another person to thumb his nose at our President.