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“Trump, it seems, could be onto something. Which makes one wonder why he wants the job — cleaning up what’s likely to be one hell of a socio-economic mess — in the first place.”

Perhaps the looming financial meltdown is why the GOP establishment seems intent on losing an election they should win in a landslide. Run Kasich or Ryan, lose again by a few million popular votes and 50-60 electoral votes. Under this strategy the moderate and safe Kasich or Ryan during the fall campaign will mouth all of the conventional wisdom politically safe moderate positions on trade, immigration, taxes, Obamacare, and social issues. There will be much talk of “working across the aisle” to find smart solutions, tinker with the system and not radically change anything, be caring and respectful. Meanwhile Sanders, Clinton, Gore, or whoever the Democrats nominate will run an aggressive scorched earth campaign in league with the media and waltz into the White House.

Once it is over, Rove and his white board will blame Cruz and Trump for alienating the elusive “moderate” and minority voters, when the loss will be in reality be due to millions of conservatives staying home in disgust.

The goal of the establishment is to hold on to the House and Senate by having moderates at the top of the ticket so they can keep their positions of power with the donors by controlling the appropriations process. At the brokered convention they will have rewritten the rules not only to deprive the insurgents Cruz and Trump the nomination but to ensure an insurgent nationalist or conservative candidate never has a chance to come close to the nomination. Perhaps they’ll adopt the insider super delegates of the Dems or they’ll have a formal two tiered selection process where all of the state delegates are chosen by the insiders and then assigned to the winning candidate in the primaries. Like the members of the Electoral College they’ll be “pledged” to the candidate who won the popular vote but they’ll also be able to vote their conscience.

Ryan is in the news daily because he is part of the plan and like McCain and Romney has agreed to take the fall in the 2016 election for the team. Better to lose in November and let the Democrats take the blame for the financial catastrophe sure to occur in late 2016 or early 2017.

The insiders believe the stage is set for a great economic crisis the new Democrat president can be blamed for. What they fail to understand is the Democrats have spent years preparing for the ultimate crisis, one which will allow them to sweep the what is left of the republic away and install a new enlightened modern government structure they can control indefinitely. The bureaucracy and the judiciary are full of leftist ideologues and the Supreme Court is one vote from siding with the statists on every issue. The upper ranks of the military have been purged and the propagandists and social engineers are hard at work destroying traditions and molding the enlisted ranks and the junior officer corps. The media is fully it control of the leftist ideologues who will gladly serve an enlightened leader. The groundwork has been prepared for a leftist president to cross the Rubicon and suspend the Constitution under a real or contrived crisis.

A financial meltdown, a major terrorist attack inside the US, or armed civilian resistance to firearm round ups after a Supreme decision defining the 2nd Amendment as not pertaining to individuals will be the pretext for suspending the Constitution and installing a new government for the people. It has been done many times before.

The insiders on both sides of the aisle know they can’t postpone the big financial collapse much longer. The national debt is too high, there are too many foreign nations (China, Russia, Iran) trying to dethrone the dollar as the reserve currency, the US manufacturing sector has been gutted, stock and housing prices are inflated far beyond real value, much of corporate debt falls into junk bond status, and the trade deficit is unsustainable. After being bailed out in the 2008 financial crisis the “too big to fail” went back to work creating trillions of dollars of derivatives and other toxic instruments. Plus, all central banks around the world are printing money and manipulating their currencies. Market pricing mechanisms are broken and distorted throughout the world.

The difference between the Democrats and Republicans is the GOP is positioning not to be blamed for the coming financial crisis which will likely make the Great Depression of the 1930’s look like a cakewalk. The Democrats are already positioned to take full advantage of it.