A Nod To The Gods

When you can’t buy a politician to do your bidding it screws up the works, that’s why everyone is freaking out about Trump, he can’t be bought. Hillary on the other hand has been bought and paid for through her money laundering foundation. It’s obvious the Clintons are a corrupt people, so who would you rather have running the country, the Clinton clan paying back their donors with policy decisions, or Donald Trump who owes no one?

That’s changed a lot in the last few decades. The technological revolution and the technocratic revolution has unleashed a new force in politics and that’s the global elite. Mark Zuckerberg’s company makes money all over the world. Apple makes more in China than in the US. Countries are no longer places to global business. They are markets. Consequently, the super-rich are no longer citizens of a country. They are citizens of their class, the global elite.

The political and media class are the servants of this global elite. They fly on their jets to Davos and they rely on their largess to finance their think tanks and media companies. The American Enterprise Institute, for example, has no customers and conducts no commerce. Yet it has offices in Washington and 150 people on staff. Who pays for that? Donors, of course, and those donors are not school teachers and shop keepers.

The result of globalization is that a smaller class of people than the former ruling classes has a bigger impact on the national affairs of every country. The old way had rich people trying to buy influence with elected officials. The new way is elected officials trying to curry favor with the rich people, in the hopes they will finance their campaigns.

That’s why everyone involved in politics panics whenever the “I” word comes up. Immigration is the one subject where the vision of anointed is revealed. On the one hand, global elites wish to get rid of citizenship and national governments because they are a nuisance. On the other hand, they imagine a world where the masses beneath them live in enforced equality. Their solution to inequality is to make everyone a peasant.

That last part is what no one discusses. The elites imagine a world like the college campus. At the top are the trustees who hire administrators to culture and cultivate the undergraduates who live communal lives. The new definition of socialism is the redistribution of happiness and self-actualization by a cloud people who rule as if they are gods. here….

It’s been amazing watching everyone attack Donald Trump. Republican candidates can count on mild attacks from fellow GOP opponents with the vicious stuff coming from the media and the democrats, but Trump is getting the vicious stuff from everyone.

My thoughts at this stage of the 2016 race is that the republican party will get what it deserves, which is to say, it does not deserve another establishment candidate. The thought of Jeb Bush as POTUS makes me cringe as much as the thought of Hillary. Obamacare would stay in place, amnesty would be rammed down our throats, Iran would still get the bomb, and the status quo of DC cronyism would continue, basically the same thing a Hillary presidency would look like. So what is the option?

Cruz is my best bet with Rand Paul coming in a close second, Rubio is flawed due to his Gang of Eight membership so I don’t trust him. Trump on the other hand is a wrecking ball, which I think is a good thing. Now Trump may be a wolf in sheeps clothing, saying whatever it takes to get elected, but so did 99.9% of the republicans we voted into office in ’14, and what do we have to show for it?

People say that Trump can’t win the general election against Hillary or whoever, I think they’re wrong and here is why. Obama won a popularity contest, it was him against Hillary, he was the new kid in town and the useful idiots along with low info voters fell in love with the image. It had nothing to do with his accomplishments, his was an affirmative action presidency, he was the liberal voters prince. Same thing in 2012, if he does not win re-election the experiment of the first black POTUS would be considered a failure so regardless all of his scandals and incompetence he was re-elected. It was a shocking reality for me personally, I didn’t think there was a chance in hell Obama would be re-elected, but that is how far down the rabbit hole we have slid, which brings us to Trump.

He has massive name recognition, fans of his television show cross the political spectrum, if it’s him against Hillary the low info voters will go Trump on name recognition only, and he has tapped into the voting block that stayed home for Romney. If it becomes a popularity contest, Trump wins because of his image, and if you think the black vote will go for Clinton your crazy, they will go Trump or stay home, my guess is they stay home. The hispanic vote could go to anyone but Trump, but that won’t decide the election, it’s the crossover vote that Trump gets because…well….he’s pop culture.

I don’t care how arrogant, crass, egotistical, or blow hard he gets, in my humble opinion, the GOP gets what it deserves. I would prefer Cruz, Paul, or even Carly, but I am the conservative voter who is pissed off enough at establishment republicans that I would vote Trump just to pay the lying bastards back for their failure to do what they campaigned on.