Keeping Out Of Politics
02/28/2020
Not too many people that I know even talk about politics, let alone are involved in the political process. Only about 60% actually vote in national elections. This election cycle, however, seems to be different if only because of the media reporting.
Politicians, themselves, have been extremely vocal lately. However, little of what they say makes any sense. There has been a hue and cry about “the end of democracy as we know it” but at the same time they hold secret impeachment hearings and, as we come to find out, spy on U S citizens. What to make of it other than politicians, of all stripes, cannot be trusted. They just want your vote.
Speaking of voting, some politicians on the left have come out strongly for the abolition of the Electoral College. They feel that the candidate with the most votes should always win. The problem is that the Democratic Party voting system to nominate a presidential candidate resembles the very Electoral College process that they want to get rid of. Just look at the recent Iowa caucuses where Bernie Sanders won the popular vote but Pete Buttigieg won the most delegates. But wait, it gets worse…much worse.
When the Democrats get to their convention, the superdelegates await. If you don’t know what a superdelegate is you might want to inform yourself. The superdelegates, who are not nominated by the public, are the ones who control the convention and the nominating process. It’s a dirty little secret that you’re not supposed to know about… but, of course, now you know. Anton Gunn, a former advisor to then President Obama, recently spilled the beans on MSNBC saying that, “The Democratic Party has a party. The party decides its nominee. The public doesn’t really decide the nominee…But people who are active in the party, they decide the nominee.” Gunn was speaking about superdelegates as the ones who actually nominate the candidate, not the people who voted in the primaries.
Bernie Sanders knows all about superdelegates and how they handed the nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016. This time around the Bernie Bros have openly come out against the “system” and the elites who control it. A recent headline in Common Dreams reads, “You’ll See Rebellion: Sanders’ Supporters Denounce Open Threats By Superdelegates To Steal Nomination.” So much for saving democracy, I guess.
“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” – George Orwell
Is Chris Matthews Warming Up To Trump?
02/25/2020
So, Bernie Sanders easily won the Democratic Nevada caucuses and as a result the elites are flipping out. Chris Matthews on MSNBC compared the Sanders win to the Third Reich’s invasion of France during World War II when the Nazis penetrated the Maginot Line. Why all the fuss?
There are several reasons. For starters, the establishment in the Democratic Party is primarily funded by wealthy donors like Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood. They are fat-cat capitalists and they fear Sanders and his anti-billionaire rhetoric. Then there is the matter of power, both in the White House and the halls of Congress. That is, the people in power want to stay in positions of power and feed off the trough of government spending. This leads directly to the final matter. Many political strategists believe that a Sanders nomination will tip the balance of power to the Republicans in Congress as a result of a negative coattails effect in the 2020 presidential election.
Well-known Democratic establishment political strategist James Carville has gone so far as to call Bernie Sanders a communist and Chis Matthews has piled on by comparing Sanders to Fidel Castro saying that if Castro had managed to bring communism to America there would have been executions in Central Park. Further, Sanders is getting the Trump Treatment of being called a stooge of Putin.
Fear does strange things to people. Apparently, many of the Democratic elites fear Bernie Sanders more than Donald Trump. At least, that’s what Chris Matthews, who is a mouthpiece of the Establishment, says. If true, a Sanders presidency is opposed by almost everyone in the country except left-wing socialists and radicals.
They say that politics make strange bedfellows. However, could you even imagine Democrats voting for the Orange Man? The bottom line, though, is that Democrats would rather lose with Bloomberg/Hillary than win with Sanders. Go figure.
To Fix The Primaries, Let The Elites Decide
02/22/2020
In response to the Democratic Party’s broken primary system, a recent Washington Post headline read: “To Fix The Primaries, Let The Elites Decide.” This type of thinking is bad for the country on so many levels.
Let’s start with the Washington Post article. Just who is the Washington Post, anyway? Answer: The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos and, of course, Jeff Bezos is an elite. So, you shouldn’t be surprised, then, that he is suggesting that he, and his ilk, should be allowed to run the country. In other countries, this is called an oligarchy. It certainly wouldn’t be a democracy.
However, America isn’t even a democracy. It’s actuality a Republic and this is what the fuss is really all about. That is, the Republic of the United States of America gives its citizens inalienable rights (e.g. see the Bill of Rights). It’s the citizens’ inalienable rights that are the real target of the political maneuvering. The elites want citizens’ rights to come from the State, instead… in other words, from them and them alone.
Of course, this call to let the elites decide is no more than smoke and mirrors, as to a great extent the elites already decide. In the Democratic Party nomination system, it’s linked to the existence of Superdelegates which are not chosen based on the voting in the primaries. That’s how Hillary Clinton stole the 2016 election from Bernie Sanders and, in the end, 2020 will be no different.
The country does not operate by mob rule. That is, the majority does not determine the basis for governing our country. Thank goodness for that because otherwise who would protect minority rights? So, polls are for the most part irrelevant. Besides, polls aren’y taken to gauge public sentiment, they exist simply to shape public sentiment.
Presidents will come and go but the Republic endures. The Constitution always remains as the governing rule of law. And all this time, you probably thought we were a democracy.
Epilogue
“With respect to American presidents, almost every president can claim a royal British/European heritage. As shocking as this may sound, these American presidents (even Barack Obama) are related to each other and are part of the same bloodline, a bloodline that stretches back through the Roman emperors to the Babylonian kings and the Egyptian pharaohs. So tell me then, exactly who is it that has been ruling America for the last 200+ years?” – TheEthicalWarrior, “A Dirty Little Secret”
Who Said It?
02/11/2020
Politics is pretty had to figure out some days. Actually, any day. Politicians sure do say the strangest things. For example:
Who said that the Left of today has become part of the elite who has lost contact with the working class it was supposed to represent… they have abandoned working class people in favor of becoming obsessed with mass migration, Greta Thunberg and LGBT issues?
It was actually said by a former member of the Swedish Communist Party, but it applies equally as well to the U.S.
Who said that ” I have my own views of the word socialist… I remember the Cold War. I have an attitude towards Castro, and I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War, there would have been executions in Central Park and I might’ve been one of the ones executed and certain other people would be there cheering.”
Believe it or not it was Chris Matthews of MSNBC.
Who said, “In the future, we ought to pick our presidents in a way that makes sure that the one who got the most votes actually gets to be president… I think it’s the right thing to do.”
It was Pete Buttigieg, who just won the Iowa caucus without winning the popular vote in Iowa.
Who said, “Maybe I’m f***ing deluding myself.”
It was John Kerry, commenting as to whether he should enter the 2020 presidential race. Then, again, aren’t all politicians deluding themselves?
Who first said, “He’s a legend in his own mind.”
I have no idea, but they must have been talking about a politician, right?
“I have nothing against the most famous people in the world using their privileged, global platform to tell the world what they believe. I even agree with most of it. I just tried to warn them that when they lecture everyday, hard working people, it has the opposite effect.” – Ricky Gervais
America, The Land of Revolution
02/09/2020
America was created out of a revolution, circa 1776. Nearly 250 years later, there are two revolutions ongoing in the country. There is the civil war between the Democrats and the Republicans and there is also the ongoing battle for control of the Democratic Party, itself. The politicians used to pretend that the fighting wasn’t really taking place. Instead, both sides considered themselves patriots and cloaked themselves in the Constitution and talked about the founding fathers, as if they agreed with either.
The latest developments show that the fight has moved to what I would call Stage 2. That is, the battle has spilled out into the public rhetoric. Case-in-point:
Chris Matthews of MSNBC commented on the Bernie Sanders campaign saying, “I’m seeing what socialism’s like. It’s not only not free. It doesn’t freakin’ work!” An article in ZeroHedge referred to Matthews comments as a warning of a socialist Sanders dictatorship. This on the heels of a Sanders’ campaign staffer saying that “Trump supporters will need to be reeducated in literal gulags, similar to what Germany did to ‘Nazified’ Germans after World War II.” So, the war between the Democratic Establishment and the breakaway socialist movement within the party is very real.
I was watching Bill Maher’s last show, as I regularly do. He had Republican advisor Steve Bannon on for a little tete-de-tete. They both agreed that Bernie is being shafted by the Democratic Establishment. Bannon said that he likes Bernie somewhat because he’s a populist while Maher hates Sanders. It’s incongruous that a conservative would have nicer things to say about Sanders than a Democrat, but, then, that’s the current state of affairs in Beltway politics.
“What we need is power! Do you understand? …But look, if no one’s persuadable, then let’s just have the revolution.” – James Carville, Democratic strategist
Stealth Election By App
02/04/2020
An article in ZeroHedge today makes the following statement about the Iowa caucus: “Iowa showed American democracy may now just be another developing world dictatorship.” As the author, Chris Andrew at Clarmond Wealth, observed, “There are two possible explanations: it is a conspiracy of the Washington Consensus cabal denying Bernie a clean win and essentially muddying the waters…or it is total and utter incompetence of bringing an untested, non-transparent technology into the democratic process.” Your choice.
Given that the companies involved in the “mishap” are closely associated with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Pete Buttigieg, it looks more like the former rather than the latter. As reported on ZeroHedge, the Bernie Sanders campaign had workers at the different caucus sites and their counts don’t match the official tabulated results.
As I’ve written before, the Establishment has it in for Bernie Sanders. For example, a recent headline reads, “John Kerry Deletes F-Bomb Denial of Anti-Bernie Campaign Plans.” In any event, Pete Buttigieg has declared victory all the while that Bernie Sanders’ attorneys are meeting with the DNC over the voting discrepancies and irregularities. As a result, #MayorCheat (referring to Buttigieg) is trending on Twitter while Buttigieg supporters are claiming that Russian-controlled bots are to blame and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times blames it all on Trump.
However, it is possible that all the confusion is simply due to shear incompetence, in which case why would anyone want any of these people to run the government when they can’t even handle a simple caucus?
“It’s clear that the corporate media, the military-industrial complex, and the party establishment are threatened by [my] message, because it challenges their grip on power. They will do everything to silence us, while also rigging the primary process for billionaire candidates who think they can bypass the kind of grassroots campaigning that is the fuel of our movement.” – Tulsi Gabbard