I love it: Donald
Trump’s campaign reveals the establishment for what it is, a swamp of
corruption as fetid as those of Latin America. It is better entertainment
than Vaudeville. The frantic scramble to rig the primaries, change the rules,
and thwart the voters–anything to defend their cozy entanglement
of political tapeworms–makes absurd any pretense of democracy.
This morning in the Drudge Report: “Trump Highest Number
of Republican Voters in History.” Who do the Republicans want to get rid of?
Trump.
On the same page, a poll
reports Trump tied with Hillary nationally. Who do the Republicans want to
get rid of? Guess.
It’s wonderful. The GOP
is looking for someone that Hillary can beat. She would squash Kasich or Cruz
like stepping on bugs. Trump might actually win. This the Republicans
strive to avoid. What could make more sense?
But it does make sense. The Republicans try desperately
to ditch the only Republican candidate who could win the Presidency
because…Hillary is one of them. Because, as every sentient being has by now
noticed, the Republicans and Democrats are members of the same corrupt club of
blood-sucking parasites, the action arm of the corporations, Wall Street, the
Israeli lobby, and those who want the US to control the world at any cost–except,
of course, to them. They are panicked at the rise of someone who might put
first the interests of America. Better Hillary, a fellow parasite, than
Trump, who isn’t.
The latest
skulduggery is the Virginia governor’s allowing convicted felons to vote.
The obvious intention is to increase the black vote for Hillary. In
Chicago, the dead vote. In Virginia, the killers. This sort of thing, of
course, explains the support for Trump.
Will the two
parties succeed in blocking the Donald? Might they even resort to the Martin
Luther King solution? My powers of political prognostication would be under
zero if they could figure out how to get there. If the felony vote and
delegate-tampering bring Trump to the convention with only 1236 delegates,
and the Republicans broker in some sad-sack compliant loser, well, the mask
will be definitive, openly, for all time off. Welcome to Paraguay.
Which would be only
another step in the country’s race toward the Third World?
What would the
public do if Trump were robbed of the nomination? What could the public do?
There might be protests, mass demonstrations in the streets, but so what? The
Insiders’ Club would just wait them out. Once a society realizes that it has no
power over its rulers, it lapses into resignation. Republicans do not loot
malls or burn cities, and would soon go home. But all the world would see that
the Americans have no recourse, that the Insiders do as they please.
Welcome to China.
But the mask would be
forever off. Very, very off.
If the Republicans
deep-six Trump, and Hillary runs against Kasich, or Cruz, or some other
derelict, what then? Our choices will be not to vote, which will make no
difference, to vote for either of the party candidates, which will make no
difference, or to vote for Trump if he runs as a third party, which will make
no difference. But at least we will have seen under the log, the squishy
pale creatures scurrying. They will keep their grip on the country,
but the world will know them for what they are.
And America for what it is: Corrupt to the roots
of its teeth. The corruption is adroitly
hidden, yes, or disguised as something else. Yet it is there. Consider the
subprime disaster. To believe that it was an accident, or a cyclical
downturn, or another artifact of econobabble, one has to believe that
bankers, realtors, and Wall Street do not understand mortgages, credit, or
defaults. You have to believe that officials of the Treasury, who slide back
and forth between Wall Street and government like the motion of the tides, had
no idea what was going on.
At the top, America is as
corrupt as Mexico but American corruption is far more efficient. Among the
white middle class, the rot is less. But within the clubhouse of
insiders, at the level of the anointed, of the Adelsons and Epsteins and
Clintons and Bushes, there is putrefaction most foul.
It is cleverly done,
and seldom involves anything so sordid as open bribery. Yet the results
are everywhere. Men who knew exactly what they were doing engineered the
student-loan bubble. Yet it is legal, like so many scams. Huge military
contracts for things not needed, the near-control of Mid-Eastern policy by
Israel, poor medical care at high prices, the deliberate gutting of American
industry so that corporations can enrich themselves in China–all of this is
legal. You pay Congress
and it makes legal anything you want.
Credit cards, which
intentionally lure people into going deeply into debt and paying usurious
interest rates, are legal. Big Pharma paid Congress to rule that Medicare
cannot negotiate the price of drugs, opening a sluice to the Treasury.
Corruption, but legal.
Under the rule of the
Insiders Club, medical care is a fecund source of legal graft.
Example: I once needed eye drops from Bausch and Lomb called Muro, which
amounted to hypertonic salt water. A bottle of 1.8 (I think it was) ounces
cost $23 in Washington, $19 in Winchester, Virginia. Exactly the
same product in Mexico, $6. Price-fixing, but where and by whom? What
Congressmen were paid to make it legal, or not look into it too closely, or at
all?
Welcome to Guatemala.
Corruption has come to be the purpose of
government, and the Club battens on it. Do You want to see the political equivalent of a public latrine in Uganda?
Try HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. I promise that you
will be horrified by the diversion of funds and lining of pockets.
You ask, Fred, why do you
say this? Are you a student of HUD? No. I know nothing of HUD. I know much of
government. HUD is an outfit with over thirty billion a year to spend,
completely unwatched. Have you ever seen a newspaper story about HUD? I
guarantee that it is dominated by the sacred ethnic groups who milk it like a
prize Guernsey, and by big companies getting sweetheart contracts.
Or try Commerce, or
Education, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or Congress.
It is to preserve these
overflowing rice bowls that we have elections without substance between
candidates without a difference. Hillary is just Jeb Bush in a dress, Biden a
universally applicable cipher, Cruz a compliant applicant for membership in the
club. Since the parties collude in avoiding issues that people care about,
the contest becomes a popularity contest of the sort found in middle school.
Whoever wins, the Insiders win.
Of course, Trump
also is a billionaire,but he is a turncoat, a class traitor, the Benedict
Arnold of billionaires. He addresses the issues that the Insiders want to
remain unaddressed. He is indeed dangerous. He threatens the endless (immensely
profitable) wars, the endless (immensely profitable) shipping of American jobs
to China, the endless (immensely profitable) importation of cheap Mexican
labor. He threatens the sacred rice bowls.
It is why he must
be stopped.
