American politics currently has become utter madness. This presidential election is a nightmare, one of those types of nightmares where it seems everyone is blind to something you and a handful of others are seeing. Is everyone being conned by a textbook conman or by a mostly identity politics-driven corrupt politician? It is a choice between the lesser of two evils. Like, really this time! We often say that but this time it appears that there has been a raising of the bar for evil. Our choices: "Boundless Corruption" or the "End of the Republic"? Here's a few of my thoughts now that my pick for President, Bernie Sanders, is no longer in the race. Let's start first with Hillary:
Is Hillary corrupt? Yes.
She likely deserves to be in jail if justice came properly for criminal negligence. Now there
is often scandal and corruption. It's a spectrum. There was Nixon and other corrupt presidents
in U.S. History. Hillary if elected will be probably one of the most corrupt President yet. I'm willing to admit this right off the bat.
But knowing all of that I would still pick Clinton over Trump for President. Not because I'm democrat.
I'm actually currently not. I was a registered republican in the GOP primary in
2012 to elect Ron Paul as nominee. I was a delegate here in my home state supporting Ron Paul. Then for this election I registered democrat and became a delegate to elect
Bernie Sanders as the democrat nominee for President. However, once I viewed, with my own eyes, the disgusting anti-democratic display by the DNC/DNC chair here at the Nevada democratic convention I burned my DNC
registration card. I then registered as an independent. I have no party now.
I've been here before. I've been down the 3rd party route before. But not this time. No. Even after my first hand horrible experience at the NV DNC I'm still going to vote for Hillary. I hate
her. I will vote for someone I hate just to stop trump. Wait! It gets worse! I
actually like Trump's personality better than Clinton's personality. When he's not playing
the role of a racist xenophobic bigot he's much more fun and entertaining to
watch. He doesn't cackle like a witch. He doesn't dress like a communist
dictator from North Korea. He's just much more likeable to me than her on a visceral level.
I even find
myself really enjoying when Trump often very accurately calls out her
specific corruption. His tweets about her corruption are many times
exactly right. Hillary is bought out by Goldman Sacs and Wall Street.
She is the poster child for donor money in politics. Trump is right
about this, but even
with all of this I'm still voting for Clinton to stop Trump.
So why am I voting for Hillary over Trump? It's simple. With Trump we are voting
to fundamentally change the essence of our country. I don't mean this in
some Sean Hannity or Michael Moore abuse of apocalyptic prediction sense. I mean this very literally.
Neo-fascism if let in will end our republic as we know it. Fascism has led to mass genocide and so many other horrors that are
unmatched in world history. We cannot change courses to this. Trump
offers nothing of any substance to the American people because Trump is nothing but a con man troll. Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again" is essentially hyper-nationalism where he wants to introduce America to neo-fascism. We do not have a typical politician on our hands with Donald Trump. And I'm not saying this in "a good way" I'm saying this in a "this man is a neo-fascist with aspirations of dictatorship" way. This has become obvious but so many otherwise well-meaning conservative voters are still being conned and are not seeing it. Their "bullshit detectors" are rusty and they cannot see when they are being trolled.
I wish I could properly express my desire for conservative voters to simply read what their party's most
intellectual thinkers are saying about the dangers of electing Donald Trump. That's it. Shut off the usual talk radio pundits and read only the conservative intellectuals with advanced degrees in political science. That's all I ask. Maybe then and only then could conservative voters heed their warnings. Intellectual conservatives right now are saying
exactly what I'm saying.
Another thing to let sink in for conservative voters on the fence about Trump: If I'm wrong about how Trump is fundamentally trying to turn this country into his own
personal neo-fascist enterprise than why on earth did every single GOP President of the past several decades NOT attend the RNC last week!?
Because they know this Machiavellian demagogue is NOT a conservative or republican. He's a
neo-fascist. Trump is the Master Troll. Understand Trump plays a conservative, Trump plays a republican, Trump plays many roles many different times. He is all things to all voters so he can maximize votes.
Listen to him speak. He more often than not cancels himself out by saying one thing than contradicting himself within the same sentence. He is saying literally NOTHING. Just recently Trump said he didn't know who Putin was. Then in the same interview talked about knowing Putin. This type of confusing rhetoric is on purpose. Read about Napoleon. His positions were often extremely confusing to scholars because he was all over the place politically. This is by design for a fascist. This is the way they speak. Go right now and watch of the utter nonsense-speak of Adolf Hitler speeches.
Trump, like all cult of personality demagogues, is nonsensical and deeply narcissistic and thus much more dangerous than just another deeply corrupt politician like Hillary. Hillary wants to at least be corrupt within our current system. Trump wants to fundamentally change the system of government. And I for one cannot support handing this country over to a neo-fascist demagogue. Yeah, fascists don't get my vote. Figured that one out when I was a child. I wish America could break the spell, break the con of this conman. Please read some of the following articles:
Recommended links for further reading:
How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996 from The Week magazine:
America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny from New York magazine:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html
History Tells Us What May Happen Next With Brexit & Trump from The Medium:
https://medium.com/@theonlytoby/history-tells-us-what-will-happen-next-with-brexit-trump-a3fefd154714#.an97vpae5
Anti-Trump videos worth your time (Please share on social media!):
(S)hillary Clinton Campaign Ad (?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnncrGurHfY
Donald Trump: Make the World Fascist Again Ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOop_9Tb-sU
Dictator Donald Ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37qRaQjRg4M
Photo credit source: JOHN DARKOW/COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE, MISSOURI
