Posted on 03/24/2016 12:25:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
The American People are angry. And it is not cyclical anger – after all, we are sitting at the top of the current business cycle. This anger is a secular trend. There is anger at the lack of jobs, there is anger over class warfare , there is anger at police profiling of young black men, anger at conservatives, anger at political correctness, anger at Liberals, anger at the break down of our inner city infrastructures and the poisoning of water in Flint, Michigan and elsewhere, anger at Hillary Rodham Clinton, anger at Donald Trump, anger at the main stream media, anger at liberal and conservative media, and, most of all, anger at a promised way of life that seems to be slipping away never to return.
The anger tracks a culmination of several economic and demographic trends that have been gaining traction but are now becoming apparent to the majority of the population. The American people are finally aware that they will no longer have job security or employer-based health care. The traditional work week has given way to the gig economy. No matter how much educational debt one accumulates in an effort to escape this new normal, most people will still be subjected to this uncertainty over career, income, and upward mobility. And to people who worked hard and played by what they thought were the rules, this is unacceptable. Someone is to blame, and someone has to pay for this. Enter the political establishment. As Governor Romney alluded to in his failed attempt to repudiate Donald Trump, the political elite has always employed tried and true methods of channeling popular discontent. It was either through engaging in a war against some foreign threat or fomenting anger against groups within America. Both parties have been guilty of this – whether it is fomenting anger against blacks or fomenting anger against whites, or Mexicans or workers or capitalists. The political parties have been able to control this anger and use it to their benefit.
But they have never encountered a person like Donald Trump. Trump has issued a clarion call to discontented Americans, and they have responded en masse. His message has been blunt, crass and at times vulgar. And yet people like the way he is expressing their own anger. This has rankled the establishment because they see it as a major challenge to their own interests. Because Trump is not beholden to the status quo, he is unpredictable once in office. He may make decisions that go against entrenched interests. Nothing could be as clear as when Trump went before AIPAC and declared that he did not want or need their money. He would not even commit to a common position endorsed by all the other candidates – which he would advocate that the putative capital of Israel be moved from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. This deeply rankled the Jewish establishment and further cemented Trump’s status as his own man.
The Republican establishment has desperately attempted to control and curtail the Trump movement. The latest threat – holding a brokered convention, in which establishment leaders would determine the nominee, could very easily backfire. Even those who do not necessarily support Donald Trump are angered by the prospect of the party interfering with the will of the people. They see this as fundamentally anti-Democratic and not the way we should conduct ourselves in this country. Those that oppose Trump should do so within the Democratic means we have at our disposal. Trump has thus far run quite an unorthodox campaign and may have broken the unspoken rules of political rhetoric. But the fact is he has played well within the official rules of the political game. He may have exploited the rules in his favor, but he has not broken them. Let’s not go breaking rules in an effort to stop him from gaining the nomination. That could lead down a dangerous road and set a terrible precedent for the future.
Already there is rumbling that there are establishment plans afoot to unleash protesters to attend Trump rallies and disrupt them. They want to create further confrontation and put the campaign in a position where it is seen as fomenting violence. This is what the media wants the American public to see, but it is not generally the truth. And if the agitators are able to get enough incidents of violence, perhaps the authorities will declare the rallies a threat to security and shut them down entirely. These are the ideas that are actually being floated. Prevent a Trump presidency by denying him the right to speak to his audience. The proposed suppression of speech and free assembly is a far more dangerous threat to our Democracy than that of an eventual Trump presidency.
Donald Trump has undoubtedly tapped into something, a spirit of anger buried deep inside the American electorate. Rather than try to deny it or suppress it by dismissing Trump as its cause (he is not), politicians need to wake up to the reality and deal with it. The Republican Party in particular risks starting a major rebellion if it tries to engineer a brokered convention in an effort to stop Trump. The Democrats should be wary of trying to shut Trump down by baiting his supporters into a street battle. Respect the will of the people and let them decide who their leader should be.
There is no question that Hilary Clinton is the complete opposite of Donald Trump. If the American people decide in the end that they would rather have an establishment candidate, they have ample opportunity do so without interference with the political process. I suspect, however, that the world has changed since she made her calculation about what playing an inside game would earn her in terms of power and influence. With Trump, we don’t know exactly what we are getting. But one thing is for sure; it won’t be what we’ve gotten thus far.
A riot is an ugly thing.
That why you “never Trump” supporters have no credibility you thrown around the term “fascist” as fast and loose as every demagoguing leftist does.... pure left-wing tactics...
any conservatives know this is same old demagoguing BS we’ve heard for years.... just because you’re doing it claiming it’s from the right it doesn’t change it
do you think you have any more credibility now that your a Glenn Beck school alinskyite?
“If the people want to elect a fascist I absolutely will do everything I can to stand in the way. You do realize that the founders actually set up our government in a way that was supposed to moderate the opinions of the masses which they feared.”
Oh will you knock it off, Drama Queen.
There isn’t any boogieman Fascists running, no matter how much you dont like Trump, or wish Cruz had the support he has.
I’m not angry the police profile young black men?....who is angry about that?
“The latest threat – holding a brokered convention, in which establishment leaders would determine the nominee, could very easily backfire.”
A few prominent Repubs have already said that they ‘would be more comfortable’ with sHrillary than with Trump.
I’m just flabbergasted that they think the will get away with denying the voters. I know they’d rather hand the White House to Hillary, but they won’t like what happens down ticket.
Amen brother!!!
You are blinded by the GOP establishment slime and have chosen the path of darkness. Repent!
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"But one thing is for sure; it won’t be what we’ve gotten thus far."
The people who were in college and just out of college when the Regan Revolution took place put their noses to the grindstone because the Republicans promised that the game had changed and they'd make sure it stayed that way.
Well, thirty years later and they're old enough to be tossed out of their job on their ear because an H1-B Visa holder from Vietnam or India will work for half as much or be told that moving their job overseas is far more profitable than having their tired old butt on the payroll for anything near a living wage.
The same people backing Mr. "Principled Conservative" just happen to be the same people who didn't squeeze Obama's tender parts to force a repeal of BarryCare or even pass a bill that would do so until the primaries started this year.
If that's not an obvious rigged game they figure the suckers are stupid enough to smile and keep playing what is ? Mr Principled Conservative, he's got one Principle and it's named Ted Cruz. Everything else is a very distant second at best.
Personally I think this is all a tempest in a teapot. The GOPe are not going to steal the nomination from Trump. He will either walk into the convention with 1237 delegates or have negotiated deals to flip non committed delegates to him on the first ballot to keep it from going to a second ballot. Trump is very very smart and he’s always one to three moves ahead of the press and his opponents.
This fascist stuff is complete bunk. Trump is advocating nothing like any type of fascism let alone sending out vibes whatever that means.
Trump isn't blaming any group that isn't responsible for problems they aren't causing.
The fact is illegals, lots from mexico, and muslim are killing Americans, lots of us.
The tragedy is most of these deaths are needless. These are the innocent Americans offered as sacrifices on the alter of globalism officiated over by the priests of the cheap labor express and votes.
So not only do we have to:
Its also incumbent on us to put up with a certain amount of killing of innocent Americans here in America so that the big business can get their labor and big government their votes to continue the charade that is currently the situation.
Its the current situation that is quasi-fascist with the collusion between big government and big business.
If you get Ted Cruz this continues so enough with the fascist BS.
Its common sense to say this should stop and its not in America's best interest to have those folks here.
Trump is being attacked at rallies so he says stuff to give folks pause.
Most of what people say are Trump authoritarian impulses are in response usually to something heinous or slanderous.
Trump isn't the one trying to shout others down. He is the one standing up to those trying to do that very thing to him.
What you get with Trump is you know if you get in fight with him you might win but you will be very injured.
The establishment is actually fascism.
As I say all the time, votes belong to voters, not candidates. If Trump wants to win, he has to campaign for those votes and get them.
Now if you’re talking about the future surprise party at the convention where someone to the left of Romney will be coronated as the new nominee? I think that the people have also a remedy for that as well.
Unfortunately, those remedies give the GOPe exactly what they desire. To lose the White House and keep congress.
The real fight has mostly already been waged and won by the GOPe in county and state party board elections.
If you really want to scare the ^@&#& out of the GOPe, promise no matter what to vote for and support the GOP nominee. That’ll put a stop to a lot of this nonsense. When they can count on conservatives to stay home come election day, they know they’ve ‘won’ by losing the White House.
I too oppose Bernie and Hillary from gaining the White House.
Amen brother? Now that is funny, considering that I am a she.
And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: [up] man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
In this vote-harvesting time, they use terms like the "Great Society," or as we were told a few days ago by the President, we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. But they've been a little more explicit in the past and among themselves; and all of the things I now will quote have appeared in print. These are not Republican accusations. For example, they have voices that say, "The cold war will end through our acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism." Another voice says, "The profit motive has become outmoded. It must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state." Or, "Our traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the 20th century." Senator Fulbright has said at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded. He referred to the President as "our moral teacher and our leader," and he says he is "hobbled in his task by the restrictions of power imposed on him by this antiquated document." He must "be freed," so that he "can do for us" what he knows "is best." And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as "meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government."
Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as "the masses." This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, "the full power of centralized government" -- this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.
Yeah but it is the electoral college that decides who will be president not the voters. The voters decide how many delegates the candidates get, and the delegates can come together and give the candidate the necessary 1237 delegates for the nomination
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