Tom Moran shits the bed again. NJ.com editorial goes nuts with the name-calling (again).
/By Rubashov
At what point did Star-Ledger/NJ.com editor Tom Moran go from a somewhat reasonable – albeit excruciatingly liberal – man of journalism, to New Jersey’s own Julius Streicher, throwing invective and hate at anyone who doesn’t see the world through the increasingly dark and confused lens he does. Like Streicher, who edited a newspaper called “The Attacker,” Moran discards journalism and adopts a political role as the state’s leading propagandist for what has come to be known as “The Resistance.”
Of course, what he is “resisting” is the outcome (under long established rules) of a national election in the world’s foremost democracy. Moran and his movement are not only threats to the political and economic stability of United States, but of the World. It takes humility to live in a democracy, to preserve a Republic. But Moran and his movement place their will above all else – and if their will should triumph, all future elections would be fought after the fact, regardless of outcome, endlessly, the way they are fighting this one.
To Moran and his movement, we are in year three of the 2016 presidential election. This election will not be over until they get their way. Only then will they permit us to move on to the next election.
But who is this movement? They are the permanent Establishment Party of government. That’s what they would be called if they were honest about it. In Mexico, where honesty rates higher than in Washington, DC, the longtime ruling political party calls itself the Partido Revolucionario Institucional – the Institutional Revolutionary Party. They held power for 71 uninterrupted years – until the corruption and economic decline got so bad that voters, in their pain, sought other answers (both good and bad). Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, like Ralph Nader and Ron Paul before them, are symptoms of a corrupt institutional party producing more pain than benefits.
Tom Moran is a chief propagandist for global corporatists, like those who publish his newspaper, and for all those who are made comfortable and secure by government and the largesse of the taxpayers. These include the crony capitalists, pay-to-play government vendors, the Wall Street operators (like Moran’s heroes Jon Corzine and Phil Murphy), and the legions of lobbyists and senior bureaucrats who might as well be interchangeable. It includes too, those well-off academics, like Brigid Harrison of Montclair State University. A failed Democrat candidate, Harrison was provided a second life as an Establishment propagandist whose work has been pushed as required reading.
The permanent Establishment Party straddles both established political parties in America – where our political choices are limited to faux chocolate and faux vanilla – and where propagandists like Tom Moran direct members of the working class to battle each other over race, ethnicity, and gender. Using the last, they are now in the process of endlessly expanding the opportunities for internal division amongst the 99 percent.
Candidates like Mikie Sherrill are the face of this “Resistance” to working class pain – to those same voters who bet on Barack Obama to rescue them in 2008, and who, in their pain, reached for Donald Trump in 2016. A wealthy, expensively trained, representative of the Elite – whose career path was to “check the boxes” on the way to being given “power” as a safe pair-of-hands for those who actually wield it.
The means to Sherrill’s rise to celebrity are notorious. Along with her Antifa-inspired thugs, she stalked and hounded the aged Congressman and Vietnam War Vet, Rodney Frelinghuysen. They spat insults at him and lied about his record – acting as if this most bi-partisan and gentlemanly of public servants was akin to David Duke. In this, they are not so different from Tom Moran and the NJ.com editorial board who over the weekend used words like “fraud” and “fanatical” to describe those who oppose their nurtured-by-hand celebrity, Mikie Sherrill. If anything, they are using others as a mirror to reflect back what they see in themselves… frauds and fanatics.
Over the next two weeks and beyond – until they get their way and the result from the 2016 presidential election that they believe they are entitled to – Tom Moran and company will continue to behave the way they have been, calling names, spitting hatred, urinating down their own trousers. They are like beings possessed, confirmed in their certainties, their righteousness and indignation. They can not think outside of it… just ask Jonathan Salant.
