There is a realignment coming in electoral politics. It began with Ron Paul in 2008 and has been building for more than a decade. We know this story well.
That realignment will be about restoring not just national sovereignty but also personal autonomy in a world the rulers of which are desperate to clamp down their control over.
The thing is I don’t think we’ve quite come to terms with the rapidity with which change comes. It builds slowly, simmering below the surface and then one day just explodes into a maelstrom of chaos.
This is where things stand in Britain with the betrayal of Brexit. It is also where things stand with Trump’s daily betrayal of his pledge to end the needless wars and regime change operations.
Tulsi Gabbard will collect a lot of voters sick to death of our foreign policy destroying the lives of millions, draining our spirit and emptying our pockets.
You can see it happening, slowly… and then all at once.
The signs of the chaos as we approach next week’s European Parliamentary elections were there if we were willing to look closely. More often than not, our being distracted or, worse, our normalcy bias keeps us ignorant of what’s happening.
Raising goats I’ve unfortunately witnessed this first hand and in a devastating way. Their entire digestive tracts are simply big fermentation vessels, chocked full of different bacteria working on what they’ve eaten.
When they’re healthy, it’s all good. The good bacteria digests the food, they absorb it and they are vibrant, alert and annoying.
But, if one of those other bacteria begin to get out of control, they can go from healthy to frothing at the mouth and dying overnight.
The goat is the Taoist symbol for ‘strong on the outside, fragile on the inside.’
Our political system is definitely a goat at this point.
Which brings me back to politics.
As long as the political class maintains 1) the illusion of choice as to who are leaders are and 2) keep things running smoothly a small minority of us will complain, simmer and stew but we won’t be able to convince anyone else it’s worth upsetting the status quo.
We’ll stay below critical mass, until we don’t. And the important point here is that, like my goats, they can can act and vote perfectly normally one day and then in open revolt the next and you have a very small window of time to make the right decisions to save the situation.
The original Brexit vote was that opportunity for the power elite to get it through their thick skulls that Britons didn’t want to go where the EU was headed.
Theresa May, Dominic Grieve and the rest of those in the Westminster bubble refused to accept that they no longer had control over the situation. Theresa May like an autistic monkey keeps putting forth vote after vote to get her Withdrawal Treaty past a parliament that has no business still presiding over the country.
She hopes by making her treaty legal it will stop Farage’s revolution. I have news for her and the technocrats in Brussels. If Farage wins the next General Election he will nullify her treaty under Article 62 of the Vienna Conventions on the Laws of Treaties.
French Poodle Emmanuel Macron cannot get control of the Yellow Vest Protests in France. And the EU itself cannot get control over Matteo Salvini in Italy.
And they will only get it through their heads after Nigel Farage and the Brexit party unite the left and the right to throw them all out in the EP elections but also the General one as well.
The same thing happened in 2016 here in the U.S., both on the left and the right.
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were the vessels for our deep dissatisfaction with the D.C. corruption. The realignment was staring us in the face in 2016.
The Davos Crowd haven’t gotten the message. And they won’t listen until we force them to.
Trump is compromised because of his vanity and his weakness. There is not much hope going into 2020 unless Tulsi Gabbard catches fire soon and begins taking out contenders one by one.
More likely she is, like Ron Paul, setting the table for 2024 and a post-Trump world. I fear however it will be far too late for the U.S. by then. Both she and Farage, along with Salvini and many others across Europe, represent the push towards authenticity that will change the political landscape across the west for decades to come.
And that is what the great realignment I see happening is.
It isn’t about party or even principles. It is about coming together to fix the broken political system first and then working on solutions to specific problems later.
Here’s hoping Trump doesn’t destroy the world by mistake first.
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“More likely she is, like Ron Paul”
LMAO, the king of pork !
Nobody is beating Trump in 2020, deal with it.
MAGA
Farage is a leader. Gabbard is a garden variety Democrat nobody ever heard of with a 0% NRA rating and a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood.
Agreed. Farage is a destroyer of political consolidation. He is the personal embodiment of the EU’s time being PAST.
She is just another snake in the grass
“Tulsi Gabbard will collect a lot of voters…”
She performs well on TV, and is getting a lot of free media time lately. She’s also a career politician, former vice-chair of the DNC, and a member of the Rockefeller CFR.
What bullshit, in what universie is Gabbard about personal autonomy (like Ron Paul)? So she’s anti-war, after that its all basically the same bullshit Demo-Commie stuff. She is nothing like R. Paul beyond the anti-war stance. She is not a libertarian, not even close. Plus she is getting ZERO traction, she is not on the map politically. She may not even make a stage. R. Paul actually had enough money and excitement to force the MSM to pay a tiny bit of attention to him at least. As Democrats go I like listening to her compared to others, she talks mostly like a normal person and doesn’t make me want to vomit. She also sounds a bit disengenous regarding some of the Demo-Commie positions though when she regurgitates the neo-communistic talking points. The Dems are just an authoritarian death cult, pushing some perverse agenda for equality for severely mentally ill people (Trans). No big surprise b/c to be a Demo-Commie you have to be mentally retarded. Just feeling like something does not make it so. I can’t wait until more people start identifying as Black, or Native American so they can try and get freecollege money, or gov’t job bonus points.
I think Owebomber was ‘against war’ too. How’d that turn out? “Turns out I’m pretty good at killing people.”
She looks decent as a candidate because all the rest of in the field is insane.
Farage si….Gabbard nope
This could explain the farce being played out in the Middle East with Iran. War is the great resetter. Just like 9/11 when our masters told us nothing else matters; our backs are against the wall and we have to come out fighting. No time for any other discussions. And you can count on brain dead muricans to fall back on their idiotic devotion to the military and stupidly fall in line like the mules they are, praising jesus in the process. Same ole shit, different millennia.
“Hope and Change”?
In case you haven’t noticed, Tom, the LEFT has no interest in coming together with anybodies other than the walking-dead “woke” . . . while the people who are actually AWAKE watch them literally destroy our country and what’s left of our culture one propaganda (N)PC catchphrase at a time. The Neocons are still in control, even if there grasp is slipping; they will not relinquish power ANYWHERE (including the EU) without inflicting lots of pain – have you not noticed, when they swarm like locusts to execute a takeover of a foreign government, that EVERYONE who opposes in said country is expendable?
WE are THAT now.
What is theirs is theirs, and what is ours is also theirs. Now they have stopped pretending, is all. Wake up.
Hoax and Chains! As I stated when o bummer first ran.
Keep it simple; all the world’s political pundits endlessly stir among the chaotic events of national and international politics, searching for trends to answer the average man’s question of what the hell is going on. Always and forever the questions revolve around who or what is responsible for this mess. The answer is short if not sweet; we are all responsible. Built into the DNA of all of mankind is an aggressive drive to dominate. During the best of times, the drive is more or less passive. While there remained a frontier, mankind could suppress his violent tendencies; all he wanted could be had without violence, except on the local level. With the dramatic rise in population, mankind’s true nature is revealed, and we return to the law of the jungle. Very few wish to face this reality; our tendency is to think of ourselves as righteous while searching diligently for the evil other who is certainly to blame for the accumulating problems.
Relative peace will not return to the landscape until the vast majority of us have become food for worms. The survivors will have the opportunity to begin the cycle once more. Will we have learned anything from the experience? Probably not, but hope is another hard wired tendency we possess.
“With the dramatic rise in population, mankind’s true nature is revealed, and we return to the law of the jungle. Very few wish to face this reality; our tendency is to think of ourselves as righteous while searching diligently for the evil other who is certainly to blame for the accumulating problems.”
Romans 3:10-12 KJB… “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
Where truth begins.
I saw a video earlier this year when Ron Paul interviewed Luango, and at that time, Ron Paul ask Luango about his goats (as it is part of the title of his blog) and his response was “I don’t have any goats yet, I only have chickens”. So how am I supposed to believe this guy is an authority on goats, if he has only been raising them for less than a year, and already, it seems, one of them died.
” oh, goats are tough on the outside but fragile on the inside” WTF. goats eat the weeds and thistles that the cows leave behind in our pasture, they don’t have fragile insides. They love getting into the ditches and eating all the weeds that no other animals want.
The only thing fragile is Luango’s farming skills.
He’s one of those gentlemen farmers with lots of cash, who buys a hobby farm and make zero income from his land, it’s all hat and no goat.
All hat and no goat. Laughed out loud at that, thanks!
PS: What a great restatement of our shrinking times. Used to be cattle. Now goats. What’s next, raising rabbits for stew?
talk to MG about bunnies…
A goat can indeed go down overnight. Take it from a man who.knows firsthand.
Nothing in the mainstream represents real change.
Real change is a reversal of the last 300 years’ trend toward political consolidation. Where do we see nascent signs of reversal? In local decisions to not enforce laws enacted from the center.
Will any politician run on (and follow through on) a platform of reducing the power of the office they seek?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Only perpetual children believe this (real, actual children are bright enough to see the lie in an instant.)
Gabbard.
Farage.
Etc.
Just signposts.
Imagine if Washington DC passes a law and it’s utterly IGNORED.
That is where we’re heading folks.
She may support national sovereignty, but she in NO WAY supports individual sovereignty….which impacts ALL of us every minute of every day. We don’t need a president who finally stops waging war on other countries, but bows to the progressive/democratic shits that got her elected and begins waging war on all of us domestically.
Nope. Maybe SOME voters … certainly NOT “a lot”.
Things are too fucked up in America for a “single – issue” to persuade voters. I, for one, admire Tulsi’s antiwar/foreign policy stance. I think she’s waaaay out to lunch on every other issue.
Plus, she’s a Hindu. Don’t want no fucken’ Hinny in da Big House!
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Gratuitous anti-Trump comment. Too bad he didn’t start off with that comment …. I wouldn’t have wasted my time reading the rest of his crapola.
Lugano – Find something else to write about already. This bitch (Gabbard) is bad news. Anti-war, but was in the military, a Bernie Sanders clone, a waffling – check the polls – mindless progressive HACK.
Go join the bitch’s campaign and stop writing such crap.
WOW! A complete anal circumspection of totally stupid idiocrazy.