I love it: Donald Trump’s campaign
reveals the establishment for what it is, a swamp of corruption as
fetid as those of Latin America. It is better entertainment than
Vaudeville. The frantic scramble to rig the primaries, change the rules,
and thwart the voters–anything to defend their cozy entanglement
of political tapeworms–makes absurd any pretense of democracy.
This morning in the Drudge Report: “Trump Highest Number of
Republican Voters in History.” Who do the Republicans want to get rid
of? Trump.
On the same page a poll reports Trump tied with Hillary nationally. Who do the Republicans want to get rid of? Guess.
It’s wonderful. The GOP is looking for someone that Hillary can beat.
She would squash Kasich or Cruz like stepping on bugs. Trump might
actually win. This the Republicans strive to avoid. What could make more
sense?
But it does make sense. The
Republicans try desperately to ditch the only Republican candidate who
could win the Presidency because…Hillary is one of them. Because, as
every sentient being has by now noticed, the Republicans and Democrats
are members of the same corrupt club of blood-sucking parasites, the
action arm of the corporations, Wall Street, the Israeli lobby, and
those who want the US to control the world at any cost–except, of
course, to them. They are panicked at the rise of someone who might put
first the interests of America. Better Hillary, a fellow parasite, than
Trump, who isn’t.
The latest skulduggery is the Virginia governor’s allowing convicted
felons to vote. The obvious intention is to increase the black vote for
Hillary. In Chicago, the dead vote. In Virginia, the killers. This sort
of thing of course explains the support for Trump.
Will the two parties succeed in blocking the Donald? Might they even
resort to the Martin Luther King solution? My powers of political
prognostication would be under zero if they could figure out how to get
there. If the felony vote and delegate-tampering bring Trump to the
convention with only 1236 delegates, and the Republicans broker-in some
sad-sack compliant loser, well, the mask will be definitively, openly,
for all time off. Welcome to Paraguay.
Which would be only another step in the country’s race toward the Third World.
What would the public do if Trump were robbed of the nomination? What could
the public do? There might be protests, mass demonstrations in the
streets, but so what? The Insiders’ Club would just wait them out. Once a
society realizes that it has no power over its rulers, it lapses into
resignation. Republicans do not loot malls or burn cities, and would
soon go home. But all the world would see that the Americans have no
recourse, that the Insiders do as they please. Welcome to China.
But the mask would be forever off. Very, very off.
If the Republicans deep-six Trump, and Hillary runs against Kasich, or or Cruz, or some other derelict, what then? Our choices
will be not to vote, which will make no difference, to vote for
either of the party candidates, which will make no difference, or to
vote for Trump if he runs as a third party, which will make no
difference. But at least we will have seen under the log, the squishy
pale creatures scurrying. They will keep their grip on the country, but
the world will know them for what they are.
And America for what it is: Corrupt
to the roots of its teeth. The corruption is adroitly hidden, yes, or
disguised as something else. Yet it is there. Consider the subprime
disaster. To believe that it was an accident, or a cyclical downturn, or
other artifact of econobabble, one has to believe that bankers,
realtors, and Wall Street do not understand mortgages, credit, or
defaults. You have to believe that officials of the Treasury, who slide
back and forth between Wall Street and government like the motion of the
tides, had no idea what was going on.
At the top, America is as corrupt as
Mexico but American corruption is far more efficient. Among the white
middle class, the rot is less. But within the clubhouse of insiders, at
the level of the anointed, of the Adelsons and Epsteins and Clintons
and Bushes, there is putrefaction most foul.
It is cleverly done, and seldom
involves anything so sordid as open bribery. Yet the results are
everywhere. Men who knew exactly what they were doing engineered the
student-loan bubble. Yet it is legal, like so many scams. Huge military
contracts for things not needed, the near-control of Mid-Eastern
policy by Israel, poor medical care at high prices, the deliberate
gutting of American industry so that corporations can enrich themselves
in China–all of this is legal. You pay Congress and it makes legal
anything you want.
Credit cards, which intentionally
lure people into going deeply in debt and paying usurious interest
rates, are legal. Big Pharma paid Congress to rule that Medicare cannot
negotiate the price of drugs, opening a sluice to the Treasury.
Corruption, but legal.
Under the rule of the Insiders
Club, medical care is a fecund source of legal graft. Example: I once
needed eye drops from Bausch and Lomb called Muro, which amounted to
hypertonic salt water. A bottle of 1.8 (I think it was) ounces cost $23
in Washington, $19 in Winchester, Virginia. Exactly the
same product in Mexico, $6. Price-fixing, but where and by whom? What
Congressmen were paid to make it legal, or not look into it too closely,
or at all?
Welcome to Guatemala.
Corruption has come to be the purpose
of government, and the Club battens on it. You want to see the
political equivalent of a public latrine in Uganda? Try HUD, the
Department of Housing and Urban Development. I promise that you will be
horrified by the diversion of funds and lining of pockets.
You ask, Fred, why do you say this?
Are you a student of HUD? No. I know nothing of HUD. I know much of
government. HUD is an outfit with over thirty billion a year to spend,
completely unwatched. Have you ever seen a newspaper story about HUD? I
guarantee that it is dominated by the sacred ethnic groups who milk it
like a prize Guernsey, and by big companies getting sweetheart
contracts.
Or try Commerce, or Education, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or Congress.
It is to preserve these overflowing
rice bowls that we have elections without substance between candidates
without a difference. Hillary is just Jeb Bush in a dress, Biden a
universally applicable cipher, Cruz a compliant applicant for membership
in the club. Since the parties collude in avoiding issues that people
care about, the contest becomes a popularity contest of the sort found
in middle school. Whoever wins, the Insiders win.
Of course Trump also is a
billionaire,but he is a turncoat, a class traitor, the Benedict Arnold
of billionaires. He addresses the issues that the Insiders want to
remain unaddressed. He is indeed dangerous. He threatens the endless
(immensely profitable) wars, the endless (immensely profitable) shipping
of American jobs to China, the endless (immensely profitable)
importation of cheap Mexican labor. He threatens the sacred rice bowls.
It is why he must be stopped.
Via Fred on Everything here
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