Finally figured it out yesterday when I hadn’t seen one of his boring-ass posts about Springsteen on Broadway. Got it confirmed and figured he didn’t care for my question or comment about him shitting on the Squad, which is consistent with him. Although he leans more left than the Brunchers, he loves to join in on blaming Sanders for why Bilary didn’t get to be the first one-term, woman POTUS. I should’ve known since he spent the Dubious Bush years blamethrowing Nader for Gore losing until the Great Equivocator. Meanwhile, I’m sure he’s dusting off his moldy chestnuts for who is responsible on losing the Democrats’ majority in the House next year; the Squad and Sanders. Not the usual gang of idiots who specialize in losing. Oh, he attacks them too yet never has a solution, he can’t, he’s lost in Academia. As the saying goes, those who don’t know…teach.
To be fair to Mr. Alterman, if you strip away his shitty tastes in music (Springsteen, Dylan, The Band), being prickly whenever someone disagrees with him or his background as a trust-fund journalist/clueless Academic, he does write excellent, thought-provoking stuff. I will always recommend What Liberal Media? I remained divided on When Presidents Lie as he showed his hatred of Harry Truman in it. I will always say, he is a prolific, talented writer despite his great distaste for uppity Proles like AOC who upset the current order and his lack of living amongst us unwashed non-New Yorkers, let alone non-Whites.
So what did I write to get blocked by this prickly Liberal? Alterman joined in the chorus of Brunchers saying Bernie supporters and Squad members would blame Black Americans for Nina Turner’s loss in a safe seat. If you recall, it was a race between two Black women; one progressive and one favored by the Establishment. The Brunchers parachuted in to the rescue with money, ads, etc. They succeeded in electing a person who will probably be indicted within a year for her quid pro quos via her boyfriend. It was a bummer. However, the Establishment didn’t think winning was enough, they chose to lecture by saying Black Americans are moderates/centrists and we all need to circle the wagons around Biden’s foundering presidency. Alterman added with his usual anti-Bernie invective, as if he knows shit about the Black vote by claiming they “like” Biden. My comment wasn’t an attack on him (by most reasonable people) as you may see.
Eric, they like this POTUS only b/c he isn’t the other guy but like the last 2 Dems, he’s going 2 let the world burn in the name of incrementalism covered up as “compromise” or “bi-partisanship.” The other party is run by terrorists, they (sic) no point working with them.
I highly doubt he ever read anything else I’ve written not involving his opinions. Given his Gold Medal in blame throwing, he would’ve blocked me sooner. Unlike other pundits I follow; Joe Conason (class act), Charles Pierce, David Sirota (someone Eric probably hates), Eric Boehlert, Bob Garfield and Robert Reich; Alterman has seriously thin skin as I’ve seen much worse thrown at the others. Ergo, he probably doesn’t have many followers anyway and/or he has the time to ask Twitter to do something rather petty.
As for the Black American vote? I’m more willing to go out on a limb and say it’s divided by age, not this monolithic entity tied to Moderates fearing they will have to pay more taxes in order to build a better society. Besides, in the recent path, Moderates weren’t exactly strong allies in the Civil Rights battles in the Sixties, they still aren’t on ending other horrible practices.