It is hard to blame the
presidential candidates for their current predicament. The blame lies belongs
to the Obama. Obama came to office on the backs of feckless liberal whites
trying to assuage some primeval guilt. This is understandable, as the Democrat Party
is the party of slavery. It’s not that they have that in their platform anymore
but they still stand for enslavement. Not to some rich plantation owner but to
a swaddling government that wants to control every aspect of our lives, from
what we eat, what we drive, to the very air we breathe.
Clinton and Trump are the byproducts
of the last eight years; of an administration that could do and would do
anything push the socialist Obama agenda. It is easy to blame Obama’s “Fly over
America” attitude of the majority of the country and it citizens for Trump. Obama’s
arrogance and look-down-his-nose attitude toward working class America and those
Americans that weren’t part of his nouveau chic
phony elites, led to millions of Americans, tired of being ignored to turn to
Trump; much as millions of gimme-crats turned to Obama with is promise of free
stuff. The sentiment, misplaced or not, of working class America is that the
rich get richer (Obama included) the poor get everything free and Trump
pandered to that and won support among large swaths of heartland America. The republicans
completely missed the demographics of Trump’s support. Most, the leftist media
and old guard Republican believed that Trump’s support originated with
uneducated Republicans. But his simply isn’t true. In fact Trump’s support with
Republican across the spectrum has and remains low. His primary support has
come from working class Democrats, Independents, and Undecideds. Americans that
are tired of the elitist attitude that is currently in vogue in DC. They really
don’t give a damn about mainstream social issues. They are generally okay with
abortion (and so is Trump) and gay marriage (and so is Trump) and don’t seem
those issues as hot-button issues. What they most care about are their families
and their lively hoods, which have been in decline for 40 year and has only
accelerated under Obama. Working class wages have been stagnant for 40 years
while they have accelerated for the upper class elites like Obama.
Clinton, on the other hand, is just
left over wreckage from Obama’s failed term in office. That she has found
sufficient following to displace Sanders, another populist with a similar
message to Trump’s (even the bombast) but with a more blatant socialist twist. Clinton
is just another in a long line of government criminals that includes Holder,
Lynch, and Obama himself. That she is even the presumptive candidate speaks
volumes about an electorate that ranted and raved about all of the criminal
wrong doing by the Bush administration and yet has the audacity to pick Clinton
as their candidate. She preaches the liturgy of Wall Street (giving speeches to
Wall Street Executive groups at a quarter million or more a pop) and promises
to protect that control of the banks and investment houses control on
government, just as Obama did.
I am still flummoxed as to why
Sanders didn’t get the nod. There is no evidence of any serious skeletons in
his closet and he certainly isn’t part of the elite ruling class of which
Clinton and Obama are members in good standing, thus my use of the phrase
feckless electorate. Clinton is the very type of person that Sanders has railed
against during his campaign, a bought and paid for Wall Street lackey. Now
Sanders has thrown his support behind Clinton, claiming to have gotten his way
on some of his most cherished campaign agenda items. Needless to say a great
many of his constituent of young college students and college educated young
feel betrayed by Sanders’ hypocrisy.
Many of the mainstream conservative
Republicans have been abandoning the party ship. George Will being one of the
more prominent and though I am not prominent I too have abandoned the ship. It
has become a party not much to the right of Obama’s party and lacks the vigor
that younger conservative want to see. Younger conservatives are also less
wrapped around the axel of the social issues that seem to continually plague
the older, yet no-so conservative, conservatives. The party platform has too
many planks that no longer resonate with young voters and I must say minority
voters, though my experience is that Republicans are more open to African
Americans and Hispanics. We believe in true diversity not just in skin color
but also in thought. Sadly, though the old guard of the party goes out of its
way to portray a different face. The party clings to outmoded social policies,
like its stance against abortion. Yes, it is very bad law a right created out
of a vacuum (the notion that a right to privacy means a right to destroy life
flies in the face of true reason and right and wrong) but it is here and probably
will be for a long time to come and as such is it not better to have it be
safely performed than not? Gay rights are another social dinosaur of the old
party. Gay people are just people why should they be treated differently? All
of the religious palaver doesn’t change the fact that they are Gay not by
choice but by birth. There is no evidence of the “gay” perversion that seems to
haunt the zealot republicans. Studies show that the best parents that children
can have is a mom and a dad of the correct sex, but in our modern society that
is a rare combination and there are millions of children that need parents and
Gay couple make great loving parents and children suffer no harm from it.
Trump bellows, “Make America Great
Again,” but then wanders off on some tangent unrelated to the message. Clinton
cackles and talks in tongues, “I ain’t no ways tired,” and regurgitates 60
years of liberal dogma. Neither, as Obama before them, seems to actually know
what America really needs. I am not sure I do either but I do know that it does
not need a National Socialist or a Criminal Socialist. I am voting Libertarian
this year.
