October 31, 2016
Our political system has given us two flawed presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. To not vote is an abrogation of civic duty. To vote third party or write in another candidate is a cop out. One must choose.
Donald Trump has more than his fair share of flaws. Don Rickles must envy him. Trump has managed to insult large portions of the population –Hispanics, veterans, and Muslims. He made disgusting and vulgar comments about women. I am embarrassed to tell my twenty-something daughters that I am voting for this man.
But Hillary Clinton is nothing to write home about either. Her main claim to fame is that she attached herself to one of the most gifted politicians in a generation and enabled his infidelities and abuse of women in return for political power. Her entire career is predicated on the notion that the rules do not apply to her – from trading cattle futures on inside information, Travelgate, stealing White House furniture, destroying e-mail evidence of her malfeasance along with manipulating the hopelessly corrupt Clinton foundation to enrich herself.
Most reasonable people would agree that when looking at the character flaws of these candidates, it’s a push. So why choose Trump?
The answer is that we must look at the forces behind each candidate. Donald Trump, for all his flaws, is fighting for the Rule of Law. Over the past decades, a new ruling class has emerged that believes the hoi polloi is incapable of self-government. A cognitive elite has taken over our judiciary, Federal Reserve and bureaucracy and rules by fiat. Interest rates are set at artificially low rates decimating savers. Trade agreements are passed in lame duck sessions enriching the ruling class while our poor must compete with Third World workers and illegal immigrants for jobs.Our judicial system allowed abortion, prohibited prayer in our schools and allowed pornography to proliferate. Conjugal relations became a recreational sport rather than an act of love. This destroyed the family structure. The opiate of the masses is now opiates.
Meanwhile, a new plutocracy arose that made the robber barons of yore look like pikers. Our professional politicians are now dancing bears for internet billionaires, corporate chieftains and financial speculators. As was demonstrated in the financial crisis of 2008, these people never lose. The Dodd-Frank bill passed under President Obama allows further bail outs without Congressional approval.
Our ruling class was chugging along and enjoying its perks when two men emerged – Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. The undemocratic rules of the Democratic Party checkmated Sanders, but Donald Trump was not to be denied. He has unleashed a populist fury that our mendacious media is working overtime to quash.
There is an element of the Republican Party that finds Trump so repulsive they refuse to support him, even though they agree with him on 80% of the issues. These people believe they can live to fight another day. They are delusional.
Our ruling class lead by Hillary Clinton has seen the belly of the beast. Clinton said as much when she characterized half of Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables.” A cautious politician like Clinton does not make a statement like this out of the blue. She has every intention of driving these people into political Neverland if she wins by taking away their guns, First Amendment rights and jobs. Pardons will be issued to all involved in any Clinton scandals. Judges will rule that illegals can vote and taxpayer money will fund liberal grass root operatives. Meanwhile, voting will switch to the internet, making fraud impossible to prove. The media will stand on the sidelines waving Pom- Poms. The opinions of the masses will become even more irrelevant.
Only one man can stop this: Donald Trump. That’s just the way the cards fell. Should he decide to rule in a dictatorial fashion or renege on his promises, he will be immediately thwarted, either by the judiciary or his supporters. Clinton will have no such constraints. As one Republican Party insider told me, “Trump is all that we have.” Deal with it or get used to democracy being destroyed for at least a generation.
Jim Weinberg says
As always I enjoy reading these but, as always, I find so much in here that bothers me that I feel compelled to respond.
First, Trump has character flaws which are despicable. They remind me very much of Bill Clinton and the taped conversations released where he speaks in the same degrading verbiage as Trump. To a lesser degree they remind me of Lyndon Johnson, who in the world of infrequent tapings (and almost no video/movie tapings where he was caught off guard), was caught numerous time using language that, even for his time, was well beyond the pale and extremely objectionable. There were also a couple of senators of the same time frame who were similarly caught and still managed to survive, even thrive, politically.
The fact is we are not electing choir boys (girls) or Eagle Scouts.
TO SUPPORT TRUMP, OR NOT…YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO ASK A FEW BASIC QUESTIONS:
A. Will Trump’s picks for the supreme court be better for the republic, and all we want it to stand for, than his opponents?
B. Will the USA be able to protect itself better militarily through common sense agreements (treaties or others), as well as from terrorism whether arising from foreign intervention or foreign influenced domestically ‘born’, under a Trump administration or his opponent?
C. Will the US Economy be stronger and more robust under the policies of Trump including his stated policies on international trade, repatriation of trillions of off-shore taxable income, energy, fiscal regulations, “un” –affordable care act; or will it be stronger under his opponent?
D. Will our military and those injured (or the families of those who gave their last full measure), be better off under a Trump administration’s stated veteran policies than those of his opponent?
E. Will Trump be more or less apt then his opponent to allow the USA to succumb to the social influences of what we consider as the rest of the ‘free world” including Europe and Australia, when it comes to our basic freedoms, including the second amendment which is the ‘freedom’ to fight for and defend our other freedoms?
These questions alone should give any intelligent person the answer when going to the polls….if you believe the answer is yes to all or most, than its Trump, if you believe the answer is NO, then its Hilary (and a suggested trip to the nearest psychiatrist may also be in order).
DON’T MINCE WORDS….THERE SHOULD BE NO REASON TO WAFFLE, POLITALLY SPEAKING THE TWO CANDIDATES ARE VERY FAR APART AND IT SHOULD BE VERY EASY FOR SOMEONE TO DECIDE WHERE THEY STAND.
IF YOU WANT TO DISCUSS CHARACTER FLAWS, THEY ARE VERY CLOSE TOGETHER AND BESIDES, YOUR IN THE WRONG CONTEST….
All the best,
Jim Weinberg
John Van Doren says
Sorry , it is NOT a push ….
The Orange Head is a misogynistic, bigoted, lying, sociopathic PERSON who had gropes women and thinks it’s just fine because he is a star, who is up on a child rape case in December for what he has done (and this is just one of many young girls who he has raped at these parties with his friend Epstein), who is likely to be in cahoots (at least business-wise) with the Russkies, if not politically tied to his bromantic Putin, who takes OTHER people’s money in the Trump Fund and pays his fines and other business expenses and who has actually contributes very little as fad as charitable contributions to ANYBODY despite what he espouses loudly, who has hidden his taxes for many of these reasons ans who knows what other reasons, who pays himself with the GOP RNC contributions (to Trump Hotels, to Trump Airlines), who has stiffed contractors numbering into the thousands, and it goes on! He is a gangster scam artist and a phony – even Romney called him out for who and what he is. The basic person makes all the difference in future decisions made for the country – like lower taxes for the rich, for himself, for the blind trust which would not be so blind IF the tragedy of his victory were to occur. He wouldn’t even know how to introduce a bill to be legislated OR how to get it passed, since he has called out all of the GOP leaders and every political, religious group, even women in general ….
Sorry, Joe …. Orange Head is NOT right for this country!
Bob MacGuffie says
Ya got that one right, Joe. She intends to do all you said, but were she to win all this scandal and constitutional crisis will follow her into “office”. Were she to win we may shortly end up with the flying monkey as president. But, fear not – I’ve been telling friends for two years in my mind’s eye I do not see her taking an oath on the capitol steps – my mind’s eye still does not see it.
Have faith…the week is only begun…………..
jim weinberg says
JVD
some questions….
As far as i am aware, Bill Clintion spends far more time on Epsteins Island than Trump; actually I’m not aware that Trump has ever even been there. Where did this story come from? And…isnt it Bill who has been accused of child rape? What is this so called rape case in December?
Grope women….all I hear is several accusations all of which have been denied with as much or more credibility that the accusations? Do you have anything outside of DNC talking points on this?
Spending RNC money on Trump company….what are you referring to? RNC has put little or no money in to the Trump campaign directly…the amount of money that has been spent using Trump accommodation etc pales in comparison to the amount of money Trump put in to his own campaign. If you were funding your own campaign would you use your own jet or perhaps rather use Virgin airlines who is supporting your competition?
DNC/Clinton have started talking the last few days about Trump and the Russians and an FBI investigation….but isn’t it true that the FBI did this investigation already and stated that there was absolutely no connection with the Russians? And isn’t it the case the Clinton foundation which spends less than 6 percent of all their funds raised on anything close to representing anything charitable has collected 10’s of millions from Russian individuals and the privatized Russian oil company?
I could go on and on, but I do agree that the man’s character is flawed beyond anything this country has seen since Bill Clinton, and was not among my first dozen choices. It is however no longer a choice of many…its a choice of 2, one of which is certainly more apt to continue destroying our country and what it has stood for in the last 250 years; and who we already know is very good at blaming others for every failure in thought and practice, who does not give a damn about our military or even our domestic police force, who gives credence to movements like ‘Black Lives Matter” which was built around lies, many perpetrated and abetted by the present administration. For true Americans who value our country, it is not a choice of running off to socialist neighbors, as is being advocated by some on the left; it is more a matter of our country to continue down the road of leaving us. Soon the erosion of our individual rights will be past any point of recovery; I know many who say it has already occurred.