Will Trump Lose in 2020? But to Who?

He’ll be up against Kamala Harris. We’ll see how her Bay Area worldview sells outside of CA.

There is no apparent reason to align with a political party. Both of them seem primarily concerned with the destruction of everyone else.

This is not a discussion about a “3rd party,” but merely a discussion about some clown who may or may not run OUTSIDE of either the democrat or republican parties. In 1860, the republicans finally had their act together enough to run candidates from one end of the political landscape to the other. It helped that back then you could walk into a polling station and simply submit a pre-printed party ballot and ballot restrictions were next to nill. So Lincoln’s election came with House and Senate victories as well as victories in state houses as well. Real nationwide change was possible. When Ross Perot ran, he worked very hard to put together the Reform Party and run candidates everywhere he could as well. This at least gave the people a REAL option that could provide additional legislative support for his agenda in both Congress and in state legislatures around the country. But thanks in part to his presence in the polls and on the stage at the debates, the worthless scum in the two major parties have worked tirelessly in every state legislature and at the federal level, to make sure such disruptions of the status quo would never have another chance in hell.

In every state, there are “ballot access” laws that dictate what it takes to get onto the ballot. In some states the restrictions are quite innocuous, but in most, they are down-right oppressive. For some they are tied to “permanent” ballot status (generally achieved by vote totals during the off-year gubernatorial contest), but most are tied to signatures or fees. In California, when I was running for office, you could substitute voter registrations to the party in lieu of money for the filing fee. They were called “signatures in lieu of filing fee.” In Georgia, such a mechanism is called a “Pauper’s Petition.” No bias there….right?? And then there is the signature requirement. In states where citizen initiatives are being put on the ballot left and right, signing a petition is no big deal for most. In states where such things are not allowed, just try getting anyone to sign your petition to be on the ballot. Things are SO BAD in the state of Georgia that a 3rd party candidate has not been able to qualify to be on the ballot for a US House race since 1935!!!! And HE was a Socialist Party candidate. In California, with permanent ballot status, our local Libertarian party group could get a candidate on the ballot with 140 signatures and no filing fees. For a complete discussion and a detailed description of every state’s rules on ballot access, there is NO better place online than Richard Winger’s site – http://www.ballot-access.org. There you can see just how horrible the two parties COLLUDE to keep away any possible competition. Simply disgusting.

Then there are the debates. When Ross Perot was in the debates, he blew the other two losers away by actually talking about things that mattered to the citizens. How horrible. Those debates were moderated by the League of Women Voters. Not so now. Now the two-party oligarchy controls the debates, and they have the right to set the bar for participation to pretty much anything they want (Candidate X is at 14% in the polls, the bar gets set at 15%, etc.). And if by chance someone magically clears the hurdle, the two worthless party candidates can simply refuse to participate and the mainstream media networks will most certainly cancel the debate and NEVER give national air time to the upstart candidate.

Then there is media coverage. Do you think that the mainstream media will make the same mistake this time as they did with Trump last time? They gave him a million hours of free advertising time, just in their constant bashing. And it backfired on them. That won’t happen again. Harris is way back and yet getting free coverage of her “Senate town hall” meetings (campaign rallies) on CNN because the powers that be demand it.

Then there is social media. Everything that Ron Paul harnessed to motivate his “Revolution” was further exploited by candidates going forward, and expertly by Trump and his supporters, as a means to get around the media lies. Now the entire conversation is 100% controlled by the giants, and even wearing a MAGA hat in a pic on your Facebook page will soon get you banished as a “white supremacist.”

It was Ron Paul’s desire to fill the GOP up with folks who actually cared about freedom and liberty, and I can tell you from my own personal experience in trying to help him out, that the GOP leadership wants NOTHING to do with freedom OR liberty anymore. Its all about control and winning elections and whatever that takes, regardless of what P0S is running or their positions on the issues. It is probably even worse in the democrat party (as Sanders’ experience showed). So real change is heavily resisted in the two status quo parties.

Starting, growing, and maintaining an actual 3rd party is nothing short of impossible these days. People simply don’t want to put out the work, and most new parties are as internally schizophrenic in their beliefs as the democrats and republicans. There are no consistent principles for anyone to rally around, and certainly nothing good enough to make anyone want to walk away from team giant douche or team turn sandwich.

And then there is the demonization. The non-stop demonization. Our vote is precious we are told. It is the most important thing in our existence as Americans we are told. But let us find a candidate that supports our beliefs, our vision for the future, our respect for freedom and liberty, small government, sound money, sound foreign policy,, etc. and expect the cries of “why are you throwing away your vote,” and “if you vote for him, you might as well vote for the democrat (or republican)” because you are going to help that candidate win. So your vote matters…but only if you vote the way I tell you to. Just look at what the democrats did to Ralph Nader, or how many still blame Ross Perot for Clinton’s win (rather than what a piece of lying shit Bush was).

So there might be a massive impetus for an alternative to the two-party duopoly that continues to destroy this country. I certainly hope there is. But unlike coming up with a great idea and buying infomercial time and selling a million items, getting the people behind your run, your new party (if one is even part of the plan), or getting on enough ballots, enough TV sets, or the debate stage, is NOTHING like it was even back in 1992 when Perot was poised to truly disrupt the status quo. And even then it took his massive fortune to buy access…..heaven forbid a regular guy or gal try.

Apparently, it’s a slow day for news. I could have written that article in 90 seconds. I do however believe the commie/democrat party is about to implode. Any liberal, running against the commie chosen one will have a negligeble impact statistically. Trump 20/20? Maybe, maybe not. If there’s still no wall, what’s the point?