Posted on 10/21/2016 1:05:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, "I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense."
"That's horrifying," said Clinton, setting off a chain reaction on the post-debate panels with talking heads falling all over one another in purple-faced anger, outrage and disbelief.
"Disqualifying!" was the cry on Clinton cable.
"Trump Won't Say If He Will Accept Election Results," wailed The New York Times. "Trump Won't Vow to Honor Results," ran the banner in The Washington Post.
But what do these chattering classes and establishment bulletin boards think the Donald is going to do if he falls short of 270 electoral votes?
Lead a Coxey's Army on Washington and burn it down as British General Robert Ross did in August 1814, while "Little Jemmy" Madison fled on horseback out the Brookville Road?
What explains the hysteria of the establishment?
In a word, fear.
The establishment is horrified at the Donald's defiance because, deep within its soul, it fears that the people for whom Trump speaks no longer accept its political legitimacy or moral authority.
It may rule and run the country, and may rig the system through mass immigration and a mammoth welfare state so that Middle America is never again able to elect one of its own. But that establishment, disconnected from the people it rules, senses, rightly, that it is unloved and even detested.
Having fixed the future, the establishment finds half of the country looking upon it with the same sullen contempt that our Founding Fathers came to look upon the overlords Parliament sent to rule them.
Establishment panic is traceable to another fear: Its ideology, its political religion, is seen by growing millions as a golden calf, a 20th-century god that has failed.
Trump is "talking down our democracy," said a shocked Clinton.
After having expunged Christianity from our public life and public square, our establishment installed "democracy" as the new deity, at whose altars we should all worship. And so our schools began to teach.
Half a millennia ago, missionaries and explorers set sail from Spain, England and France to bring Christianity to the New World.
Today, Clintons, Obamas and Bushes send soldiers and secularist tutors to "establish democracy" among the "lesser breeds without the Law."
Unfortunately, the natives, once democratized, return to their roots and vote for Hezbollah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, using democratic processes and procedures to re-establish their true God.
And Allah is no democrat.
By suggesting he might not accept the results of a "rigged election" Trump is committing an unpardonable sin. But this new cult, this devotion to a new holy trinity of diversity, democracy and equality, is of recent vintage and has shallow roots.
For none of the three -- diversity, equality, democracy -- is to be found in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers or the Pledge of Allegiance. In the pledge, we are a republic.
When Ben Franklin, emerging from the Philadelphia convention, was asked by a woman what kind of government they had created, he answered, "A republic, if you can keep it."
Among many in the silent majority, Clintonian democracy is not an improvement upon the old republic; it is the corruption of it.
Consider: Six months ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton bundler, announced that by executive action he would convert 200,000 convicted felons into eligible voters by November.
If that is democracy, many will say, to hell with it.
And if felons decide the electoral votes of Virginia, and Virginia decides who is our next U.S. president, are we obligated to honor that election?
In 1824, Gen. Andrew Jackson ran first in popular and electoral votes. But, short of a majority, the matter went to the House.
There, Speaker Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams delivered the presidency to Adams -- and Adams made Clay secretary of state, putting him on the path to the presidency that had been taken by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Adams himself.
Were Jackson's people wrong to regard as a "corrupt bargain" the deal that robbed the general of the presidency?
The establishment also recoiled in horror from Milwaukee Sheriff Dave Clarke's declaration that it is now "torches and pitchforks time."
Yet, some of us recall another time, when Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote in "Points of Rebellion":
"We must realize that today's Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution."
Baby-boomer radicals loved it, raising their fists in defiance of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.
But now that it is the populist-nationalist right that is moving beyond the niceties of liberal democracy to save the America that they love, elitist enthusiasm for "revolution" seems more constrained.
What goes around comes around.
Of course it was, and his answer to Chris Wallace was perfect.
Two thumbs up!
I try to avoid PB articles because I believe he harbors some terrible biases
but
he remains a very bright man
and I did read this PB article,
and
he makes a brilliantly accurate point, that our Controllers are afraid we sheeple may stop respecting their “right” to rule, and sheer, us
right on, PB!
only....its already happened, the Ruling Class is just waking up to this reality a bit late ...is all
North American Union
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05OTTAWA268_a.html
USA, Canada and Mexico all living as one....
I don't expect the press to always agree, but most of what we know as the "mainstream media" no longer qualifies as the press -- because they have become political operatives. You don't invite political operatives to a press conference.
They have no moral authority because they were superimposed on us.
If Trump really wanted to emulate Al Gore, he'd have to sell Trump International to Al-Jezeera.
Oh no, that can’t be right. They don’t want a unified three nations. They keep saying so. I believe them. /s
So all along they’ve said they don’t want a North American Union. Now it’s called a North American Initiative, or is this just an effort in harmonization head toward the NAU?
Anyone involved with this deserves to swing from a rope.
I agree with that last comments.
It will be interesting to see how he handles things.
We must be careful. I believe we should first use their methods against them. Dirty tricks, paid activists to disrupt their meetings, vandalism, sabotage, mayhem, etc. All stuff the libs are doing and getting away with. A little later we can say "screw you" to them. With a smile.
This is why I came unglued when I found out Cruz’s wife worked for the CFR for five years.
With the heartstopping hypocricy of the media?
Hardly.
I have no idea why they would even begin to consider this horrifying. We all know what the Gore people did, not to mention any number of elections where the democrats kept counting until they finally amassed enough so called votes to get their guy in. It would be profusely stupid of Donald to have agreed to this. I do not begin to understand the pretense of the logic they use to say that this is outrageous on Donald’s behalf. It makes no sense to me at all.
What goes around comes around.
I have been thinking this all day long. Funny how things turn around. The only difference now is that the MSM is a PART of the Establishment.
Name me someone in a position of power who hasn’t worked there, belonged to it or has known associates that do. Hell, I worked for Al Haig who was a CFR-member, Bilderberger, Knight of Malta and more, so you could throw me into that briar patch I suppose.
Are you kidding?
Why does the queen bee of seventh grade tell everyone the new girl is a skank?
Did you go apply at the CFR, hire on, and work for them directly for five years? NO!
Of course you’re going to run into folks who were members. I don’t expect you to go running away screaming from each of them.
I’d keep my eyes open though.
The CFR is a globalist enterprise dead set on neutering the United States via international organizations and agreements.
They just don’t care.
I do.
Maybe I misread your intention on your post. I took it as meaning going postal. In such an event, Obama’s goons have an advantage with firepower against small groups or singles. That’s a harsher penalty than the media backlash.
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