How Could it Have Been Worse?

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Maybe it would have been wiser to just sit the last one out. Or even to have done like Khan in Star Trek II and – for hate’s sake – voted for her.

Why not, after all?

It might have turned out better.

Obamacare wasn’t going away in any case; I think we all knew that, deep down. The idea of the feds ever voluntarily giving back power once acquired is preposterous. It is a thing only fools and children could possibly believe in, like Santa Claus.


Under her, we would still have Obamacare, of course. But under him, we are now to be dunned $3,000 for each year we elect not to be “covered.” This will have the effect of turning hundreds of thousands of people – possibly millions – into debt slaves or “criminals” or both. A person – young, not much money or perhaps self-employed – goes “without coverage” (but not costing anyone a cent) for say five years and now he “owes” the insurance mafia $15,000. Will the government seize his bank accounts and property and dun his paycheck to collect it on behalf of the mafia?

This is what is meant by Repeal and Replace.

Instead of the so-called Individual Mandate, which belts us with a punitive tax paid to the government annually for failing to purchase coverage, we are to be dunned by the insurance mafia – backed by the government – if we elect not to be covered and two to three times as much.

That is the Republicans’ idea of a “market-based health care reform.”

Big corporations using the government to rob us. We might as well all be stamping out license plates in a federal pen someplace.

It gets worse – of course.

She would not have been as vicious as he is becoming with regard to arbitrarily illegal drugs. They would of course have remained illegal; there is simply too much money and power in it to ever allow the War on Some Drugs to peter out entirely. But a North Korean-style jihad against non-violent users/sellers of arbitrarily illegal drugs would likely not have been initiated under her Leadership.

We are about to get exactly that – a jihad – under his Leadership.

The worst sort of jihad. Moralistic braying about the arbitrary “sinful” conduct of others, which is the sort of thing Republicans specialize in.

This ought to make especially Libertarians cringe – those who “held their noses” and voted for him as the lesser of two evils, or a kind of damage control/firewall against the perceived looming depredations of her.

As bad as Leader Obama was – and as bad as Leader Hillary would have been – we now have Leader Trump and it not only makes no difference, the difference is becoming worse.

She at least had to pay some lip service to the putative mild-mannered humanism of the far-from-Jeffersonian “liberalism” she and hers pretend to represent. After all, the Democrats care about people.

Republicans suffer under no such impediment.

His people care about Law and Order. About crushing enemies, seeing them driven before them and hearing the lamentations of their women. They are perpetually priapic about The Homeland and might as well begin playing Die Fahne Hoch at their rallies. They love The Flag and all it represents – which is to say, government power.

Their power.

And what good is power if you don’t use it?

Against non-violent users and sellers of arbitrarily illegal drugs, for instance? But that is small potatoes. The real itchy-triggerdness is directed against – as always – The Enemies of Freedom abroad.

These are located very far abroad. So far abroad they are literally incapable of so much as poking Our Freedoms in the ribs. Yet they must be shown who is boss by the Big Boss, who not only itches to say You’re Fired! but also itches to fire something – many things – at these Enemies of Freedom. It keeps the flags waving, you see – and also disposes of some otherwise useless military surplus which will, of course, need to be replaced (never repealed) at tremendous expense.

Else Our Freedoms will be in jeopardy.

Because, you see, ten 100,000 ton nuclear powered aircraft carriers and 18 Ohio Class nuclear subs each carrying a dozen nuclear-tipped missiles and then another 10,000 or so nukes stored away in various places in the Homeland plus about 8,000 jet fighters, bombers and other military aircraft of various types and an annual budget of around $600 billion isn’t quite sufficient to protect Our Freedoms from evildoers abroad.

He wants more of all these things. Like Herman Goring at Karinhall, who played with his trains while his pet lion gamboled in the background.

She would have stolen and spent our money on things, too – including War Things. But probably less so. Which was what we – those of us who got Charlie Brown’d by his Lucy – expected him to do.

Now we’re getting it and then some – a worse-than-Obamacare federal bayonet in our backs plus a Drug War on Viagra and the always-more-fervent Republican fetish for The Troops and anything wrapped in The Flag.

It’s like a tent revival scene from the ’30s, sweaty and turgid.

Or another kind of revival.

Cue Die Fahne Hoch.

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Arturo
Arturo

http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=2140

Great article by James Petras. Shows how much we have gone downhill since Nixon.
Is there any way to win at this game?

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

That’s a good summation there, Artie. It is far more interesting than the stuff you get from Yohimbo putting all the blame on ((Da Jews)).

WIP
WIP

Heads we lose, tails they win.

ragman
ragman

Arturo: try to not let the goings-on in NYC, DC, and LA get to you. The Deep State is like a Hydra, an evil monster with many heads. I don’t know that anyone will ever kill it. Enjoy your family and friends! What Trump disappoints me the most is his elevation of Ivanka and (((Kushner)) to closest advisor status. Nothing good can come from that decision. Steve Bannon was our only hope and he seems to be on the outs. For Eric to suggest the Hitlery would be a better choice shows me that he has totally lost his marbles. He should stick to writing about VW diesels.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

I tried to make a comparison between Trump’s appointment of Javanka and a corrupt Mexican governor who appointed his wife as minister and she put her family in power. I thought it would be easy to see the danger of nepotism.

Some vermin took that example to underscore his point that non-whiggers are by nature dumb and pre-disposed to crime. When folks are so blinded by the neo-Nazi catechism, they can’t see the problems at home clearly. It’s always ‘Da Jews’.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

In the words of George Carlin:

“If voting changed anything it would be illegal.”

No matter who was elected, we would still be told to bend over. The only difference is the color of the rod they’d shove into us.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

It’s all bullshit from the players of the magic circle jerk from WALL STREET to K-STREET to CAPITOL STREET to THE PENTAGON wash rinse repeat all with a revolving back door as they wipe their combined asses with the constitutional republic that many swore a sacred oath to protect and defend . From all enimies foreign & domestic ! Start on Capitol hill and work your way thru K-Street and on to Wall Street . After a few dozen public executions , tar and feathering just maybe the pentagon profiteers will get the message . Those in uniform and those playing the parasite game . Venezuelans are literally throwing shit and rocks at their reps and their defenders .
Just imagine some congressman or senator with a mouth full of your real shit rather than your ears filled with their verbal shit . Oh to sleep ,per chance to dream !

fleabaggs
fleabaggs

This guy should stick to writing about running stop signs. reminds me of Saker. A specialist turned political hack. Not enough fame or money in stop signs and weapons analysis.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

To quote L4S, at least Peters is not as incompetent as Scott Adams. There’s a cartoonist turned political hack.

I can understand Peter’s concern that the gilt is peeling off Obamacare and we can see it is a tax scheme to collect more dollars for Uncle Sam’s war machine.

I can never understand Adam’s justification of Trump’s every move like he was Kasparov vs the computer.

I suspect Trump is playing Chinese checkers against America. I doubt he’ll let her win.

Sumitup
Sumitup

She should go write an article for MADD and force us all to have breath machines in our (private) vehicles and keep paying the crown for the rights to use the roads we (as the public) already own thru taxation.

Is taxation not good enough for you that we have to pay twice thru licenses instead of just enforcing the damn law?

Leon Prevot
Leon Prevot

Whether a flag is holy or.not.depends on it’s fiber. Same thing with the constitution. Whether it’s hemp or not.

Sumitup
Sumitup

Basically to sum up this article the author wrote Hillary Good/Angelic. Trump bad/demonic for not going with the one world order. You can add as many fancy thesaurus words as possible to pretty it up but in the end that is what you mean.

Okay we get it. On with the next click bait!

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