Where Netanyahu And Jeffries Converge.
Politics is deception by other means… I thought of writing down on a napkin. Pink is a deceptive blue. The words of Richard Roper came back to me… “Are you pink my boy?” It’s funny the Democrats haven’t even won elections in November (it’s only August) but the jostling has already begun. The insurance companies are worried that the DSA (Democrat Socialists) will try to move the needle on “Medicare for All”.
Here I must confess to a bias I haven’t confessed to Mother yet. I couldn’t afford health insurance. Without having once gone to the doctor, I got an insurance increase in late 2024 suggesting that my rates were going up by 29%. I couldn’t afford insurance. By then my head was making life, a venture in pounding. Today has been a 10 mini Advil sort of day. 5 upon waking and 5 after lunch. So I went and sought Disability and Medicare. Mother doesn’t need to know. Somewhere far away, I can feel her eyes shooting needles at me. From behind.
Anyway Cappy introduced me to Ground News… an interesting website that tries to show news the way news has become. Who owns the news….the answer mainly corporations and rich people.
Ever wonder why the news is so fragmented that you don't actually get real news? Or news that is important to America or Americans? The answer may lie, this is not an accusation, in the ownership of media companies. Ground News goes so far as to suggest that each article is owned by a particular media company. That, if true, implies that events are not public events, they are events that are choreographed and owned. That’s a deep rabbit hole and I am not willing to go into that narrative speculation (conspiracy theory) today.
They have an interesting space called BLINDSPOT. Stories that one hand (either Right or Left) covers but not the other. Review the LEFT BLINDSPOT today uncovered this interesting dual stories that link Hakeem Jeffries (Centrist Democrat) and Benjamin Netanyahu (Right Wing Israeli Likud). The commonality? They both are against DSA and Mamdani specifically.
The enemy of my enemy sort of thing.
And for what? Because Insurance Companies donate to Democrats. That is the essence. The rest is the essay.
Remember ,,,, it’s not yet November. Elections haven’t even begun yet. Yet “the rulers” have started to whip the unelected DSA candidates into their respective categories. That’s the way America works.
The Structural Foil: How the Centrist Left and the Nationalist Right Weaponize the Democratic Socialist
The Structural Foil: How the Centrist Left and the Nationalist Right Weaponize the Democratic Socialist
In contemporary political analysis, few divisions appear as stark as the ideological chasm separating the American establishment center-left from the Israeli nationalist right. US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries operates within a framework of institutional pragmatism, aiming to preserve a diverse, big-tent coalition capable of securing moderate legislative outcomes. Conversely, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party relies on a robust brand of right-wing nationalism, navigating regional security crises and domestic coalition friction to maintain executive power. Yet, a closer examination of their strategic maneuvers reveals a striking convergence: both leaders have identified a singular, shared adversary to serve as their ultimate political foil—the democratic socialist movement, embodied domestically by the advocates of Medicare for All and internationally by figures like New York City assemblyman and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
For the establishment centrist, the threat posed by democratic socialism is primarily structural and electoral. Within the American Democratic Party, the push for systemic overhauls—most notably Medicare for All—represents a fundamental challenge to status-quo governance. This policy, which aims to dismantle the private health insurance industry in favor of a universal single-payer mandate, enjoys broad grassroots support among working-class voters squeezed by skyrocketing premium costs. However, for an institutionalist leader like Jeffries, the policy is viewed less as a common-sense solution to a middle-class economic crisis and more as a high-stakes liability. To secure a governing majority, the party establishment relies heavily on winning suburban swing districts where corporate healthcare networks serve as vital local employers. Furthermore, the financial architecture of modern campaign committees depends on a continuous funding pipeline from healthcare, insurance, and pharmaceutical PACs. Consequently, when Jeffries explicitly declares his rejection of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) agenda, he is executing a calculated survival tactic. By distancing the party mainstream from progressive ideology, the centrist establishment placates moderate donors and insulates frontline candidates from conservative attacks, effectively using the DSA as a convenient shield to protect their corporate-backed status quo.
For the Israeli nationalist right, the weaponization of the democratic socialist operates on a completely different, yet parallel, psychological axis: the politics of existential fear and out-group homogeneity. Netanyahu’s campaign strategy has long excelled at flattening complex global and domestic opposition into a singular, unified threat against the state. This mechanism was vividly illustrated by a prominent Likud billboard displaying the message, "They want Netanyahu to lose; don't let them win." The advertisement visually consolidated distinct geopolitical adversaries—such as Iranian leaders and militant commanders—with Zohran Mamdani, an American democratic socialist politician. By placing a local U.S. official alongside hostile foreign heads of state, Netanyahu’s apparatus engages in a sophisticated form of political spin. The tactical objective is to frame any domestic or international critique of Likud's governance as an act of alignment with Israel’s worst enemies. In this context, the democratic socialist is transformed from a distant ideological actor into an immediate national security threat, serving as an ideal foil to unite a fractured domestic electorate under the banner of existential survival.
Ultimately, the convergence between Jeffries and Netanyahu lies in their shared reliance on the democratic socialist identity as a political pressure valve. While Jeffries uses the movement to signal moderation to wealthy donors and centrist swing voters, Netanyahu leverages it to signal strength and vigilance against a manufactured global front of adversaries. Whether through Jeffries’ quiet pivot away from past legislative co-sponsorships or Netanyahu’s aggressive billboard campaigns, both establishments demonstrate a core principle of political statecraft: truth is frequently subordinated to strategy. For both the centrist left and the nationalist right, the progressive insurgent is not merely an ideological opponent, but a vital tactical tool required to enforce internal party discipline, protect institutional funding pipelines, and neutralize threats to their respective holds on power.
