Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
It seems like a nightmare, but it is reality: The Democratic Party has chosen a criminal as its presidential candidate. And the liberals said that Reagan wore teflon!
Enough commentators have made the point that Hillary has been elevated above the law even before she is POTUS. The One Percent know how to protect its servants.
As Obama and Hillary demonstrate, the Democratic Party, formerly a defender of the common man, now competes with the Republican Party as an agent of the One Percent. Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat, and Ronald Reagan the last Republican, whose concerns encompassed ordinary folks.
Who represents the people today? Ironically, one of the One Percent—multi-billionaire Donald Trump. The incongruity of the people’s champion being a One Percenter has produced conspiracy theories that Trump’s assigned role is to alienate voters, thereby delivering the presidency to Hillary. Considering how deceptive American political life is, such a conspiracy cannot be dismissed out of hand. However, it seems to me that Trump is making too good of a fight out of it for his candidacy to be a conspiracy. The damage he is doing to Hillary does not fit the conspiracy theory. Trump can do himself in without having to take Hillary with him.
The presstitutes are assigned the task of laying Trump’s scalp at the feet of Hillary. Paradoxically, the standard of comparison for denigrating Trump’s political leadership is Ronald Reagan, who during his terms was consistently derided as a senile old fool who fell asleep during cabinet meetings, but nevertheless was responsible for Iran-Contra and everything else that resulted in media concerns. Even the neoconservatives, who Reagan fired and prosecuted, now hold up Reagan as the gold standard of presidential leadership.
As I do, Amb. Faith Whittlesey, who served Reagan during both terms, remembers it differently.
Moreover, she sees Trump as a proven leader, especially when compared to Hillary, a mere vassal of the One Percent. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ambassador-faith-whittlesey/never—they-said-that-of_b_10845880.html
In my opinion, Whittlesey’s emphasis on Reagan’s free market capitalism is overdone. Reagan was a union leader, and free market capitalists are opposed to unions. It was Bill Clinton, not Ronald Reagan, who deregulated the financial system in the mistaken belief that “markets are self-regulating.”
Reagan spoke up for private enterprise, because the deck had been stacked against it since the Great Depression. There had been two large expansions of government, Roosevelt’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society. One more and private enterprise would have had to have been put on the endangered list. There needs to be a balance between governmentg and business, and Reagan was trying to keep a balance.
If Trump were to be elected, none of us knows whether he could escape the power of the One Percent and rule in behalf of broader interests than has been the case during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes. However, unlike Hillary, Trump is not a vassal. He is his own independent person.
This doesn’t mean that he knows what to do or whom to appoint to government office in order to save the sinking ship that is the United States of America.
What does seem clear is that if Hillary is elected, more war, including war with Russia, will be our future.
On the one hand, Hillary will risk WWIII and quite possibly bring it about. On the other hand, Trump called a guy a Mexican – a vicious slur, if ever there was one.
better then a wet back
It is considered a slur in California, therefore, polite folks call Mexicans ‘Spanish’.
A Mexican is that Hispanic gentleman that just left the room
Funny thing, many years ago when my stepdaughter was 6. She asked me, “Daddy, do we like spinach people?”
I said, “Who are spinach people, kiddo?”
She said, “You know. People who speak Spinach.”
I’m American, nobody calls me “english” because that’s the language I speak.
Fuck the Beaners and their PC aspirations.
Oh yeah? Well, you’re English.
There.
This election won’t be about the most frequently discussed issues, it will be about the future makeup of the Supreme Court.
The USSC has established itself as the supreme law creation body in the land, and we can neither directly vote for or dispute them.
So don’t vote, everyone knows it will make no difference who is elected and who makes those coming appointments. Hillary or Trump will appoint the same people.
If one were to assume that the evil, lying bitch is a given as the next POTUS, then perhaps the Senate should consider Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. For all we know, Boxcar Willie Clinton might have promised the job to Loretta Lynch on a tarmac in Phoenix last week, or worse yet, Hillcunt might nominate Hussein Obama as a SCJ to a Senate that might not be a Republican majority Senate.
Hopefully, Donald rolls a seven on his come out roll, and it becomes a moot point, none-the-less, not considering Garland at this point is still a roll of the dice – especially given that Bader-Ginsburg’s
days are numbered also. A Hillary presidency will have us up to our necks in the quicksand of tyranny.
3/4 of the electorate does not even know WTF the Supreme court even is. In fact, they can’t even find their home state on a map.
They will vote for whomever Richard Maddow on MSNBC tells them to.
We’re fucked. It’s over.
Giant Meteor 2016
Anon, are you a total idiot?
A truly fearful thought that we are depending on the voters.
Voting will fix things in the same way that the Catholic Church (or any other religion) will get you into Heaven.
Voting hasn’t worked to improve things during the 50 years I’ve been alive and there is a less than zero chance it will suddenly and miraculously help now. The illusion of choice is no different than normalcy bias. Choosing which party is going to punch you in the face still results in a punch to the face. Enjoy!
I thought things were improving under Reagan and had gotten worse under Carter. Employment and income up after the Carter disaster, cold war ending, and on and on.
Certainly seems that both Carter and Reagan were President because of voting.
So how do you define improving?
You don’t, you just talk around it, knowing full well you do not want to cure the patient. Think of it, they always speak in terms of disease; broken borders, sick economy, broken immigration system, broken infrastructure, broken everything.
So they make you pay. But they don’t fix anything. Might as well live in Philly.
Kinda depends on who the machines are programmed vote for I guess.
The machines are programed to vote for whoever/whatever benefits our owners the mostest. It’s a rigged casino and the house always wins even when it looks like they lose.
What appears to be a broken system to you and I is actually a highly tuned, well oiled wealth transfer system that is working better today than it ever has in human history.
Will O bama declare himself king?Martial law like prophecy say?
Well, he assures us that Trump will not become President.
That would be one way of doing it.
PCR is huffing glue again. He seems to think that it makes a fuck who votes for whatever in november or any other time. Retard.
You don’t think it will make a difference in, say, the future makeup of the Supreme Court?
Or that the Supreme Court will make a difference in our future?
It certainly has so far, everything from Obamacare to gay marriage and transgender rights in very recent memory.
Who you calling Retard?
I’m calling PCR a retard, Retard.
There is little I can say to improve on your comments and I/S is truly spot on but I will say the matrix encourages human emotion and participation.
We are not here to be watchers void of opinion and passion.
The matrix will respond to a large outpouring of disapproval and indifference.
Damn, Bea. WTF you sayin?