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