Trump is the GOP's Frankenstein
"I realize some of you have a more sanguine view of Trump compared to mine. And some of you have a far more sinister view of Trump.
But, whatever you think of the man, the constituency Trump represents is not deplorable. And, win or lose in 2016, they are convinced that there exists this nationalistic, protectionist, anti-immigration platform which will solve their problems."
But, whatever you think of the man, the constituency Trump represents is not deplorable. And, win or lose in 2016, they are convinced that there exists this nationalistic, protectionist, anti-immigration platform which will solve their problems."
If the Republicans had done what they promised , neither Trump nor Cruz would have lasted past the first three primaries.. As it was the Party made sure, by it's actions, that one of them would be the nominee.
The passage of two short weeks will tell us if the creature is a monster or a "Man".
What became obvious in 2016 is that the idea that there are two opposing parties is a fictional narrative. There is a single establishment running the country that pretends to represent two opposing ideologies as a means of controlling the population, There is never an effective opposition because there is never any real opposition. The oligarchs agree among themselves and then do it to the population. This might not be bad if the oligarchs were as smart as they think they are. Unfortunately it is clear from their decisions that they have created a kakistocracy of the rule by the most inept and corrupt.
We're currently experimenting with Constitutional bypass already. It is a dangerous experiment.
I'd say Halloween is a particularly appropriate holiday for this election.
Trick or trash! With spiders in both!
Quit insulting Frankenstein.
The Tea Party was the first significant sign of this fomenting uprising, and even the establishment media had to acknowledge the root cause of its rise to unavoidable notice. You don't hear much about this group any more, because they put their faith in bumbling, flawed super-conservatives who made it easy for the establishment media propaganda machine to destroy them.
Trump and Sanders independently recognized that there was a strong desire to return the citizenry to a degree of power. To do that, the elite in the political parties, and the wealthy in cahoots with them needed to be challenged, and taken down if possible.
The tremendous effort has been made by both major political establishments and their toady media propaganda arm against both populist candidates, and they succeeded in stopping Sanders. Trump amazingly seems to be continuing to ride the populist wave, in spite of the efforts to stop him. If he's to be considered a monster, his creators are the pitchfork and torch waving masses, eager for a cleansing of the government cesspool.
I am a member of the Trump constituency.
Say what you will about him, but he produces. Hillary Clinton has produced nothing, and destroyed much. In fact she cannot even guarantee a result for those who bribe her; witness the Keystone XL Pipeline affair.
I'll take the man who gets results, over the man (or woman) who doesn't.
Yes, Hillary is a disgusting ugly unethical lying looter. If she were standing in the road and I accidentally hit her with my car, I might accidentally back up over her. Trump might be better, or might be a re-run of King George III.
You were born to be sovereign, endowed with rights by God almighty, and no servant government was delegated power to trespass those rights - save by consent of the governed or in pursuit of justice on behalf of an injured party. Absent consent, all government is authorized to do is adjudicate disputes, prosecute criminals, and defend against enemies, foreign or domestic.
Anything more is based on your consent and voluntary participation in their democracy, contracts with usurers, and by your voluntary participation in national socialism (socialist insecurity).
No matter who is elected, nothing will change the path to destruction, caused by the criminals in power.
Metaphorically speaking, the creature is composed with mistaken as dead body parts that the elites hoped to stay stifled.
If they do find a kinder, gentler populist in 2020, that candidate will have to appeal to some Bernie Sanders supporters.
Here is a glimpse of it from Bernie Sanders' article in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/opi...
"That increasingly globalized economy, established and maintained by the world’s economic elite, is failing people everywhere.
Wall Street and billionaires, through their “super PACs,” are able to buy elections.
I also visited the American citizens of Puerto Rico, where some 58 percent of the children live in poverty and only a little more than 40 percent of the adult population has a job or is seeking one.
Let’s be clear. The global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and the world. This is an economic model developed by the economic elite to benefit the economic elite. We need real change.
But we do not need change based on the demagogy, bigotry and anti-immigrant sentiment that punctuated so much of the Leave campaign’s rhetoric — and is central to Donald J. Trump’s message."
To win on a populist message like this, a party needs both kinds of populists- Trump and Sanders. They could learn to get along. As they bring together these populists who agree that other people are to blame for their problems and that gov't is part of the solution, they lose people who want stability and gov't out of their lives. I don't know if those people go to the Democrats or if Democrats disappear or change into some kind of new libertarian party.
I am not predicting thing this will happen. The pendulum could easily swing back, with populist media driving rednecks toward moderate establishment GOP candidates who at least give some lip service to reducing gov't and who are smart enough to keep this "Cultural Marxism" crap and anyone who cites neo-Nazi murderers hidden in the background.
Thankfully, I don't see a scenario where the bad idea of thinly veiled racism gets accepted because it's packaged with the good idea of less gov't spending/intrusion.
"And the Aftermath Is Predicable"
"The GOP could come back on the same populist platform in 2020, led by a genuine working class man (or woman) with no skeletons in the cupboard, and win."
What is the predicable aftermath? It sounds like this is saying faced with the threat of the destruction of their party, the GOP will resurrect more of the same dead ideas to create a female version (or at least a more palatable version) of Trump. They'll destroy it in horror of creating a new breed of Trumps. In their last gasp of life the Trumps of the world will commit violent crimes in frustration at the successful people of the world regarding them as deplorable.
I was thinking of Dr. Frankenstein exhuming bodies to make a mate for the first creature. He destroys the mate in horror before he finishes it. The monster takes revenge on his creator. The real horror is the monster started out benevolent and only turned into a "monster" after polite society rejected him.