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Peter1469
05-07-2016, 07:22 AM
Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders (http://www.salon.com/2016/05/06/our_awful_elites_gutted_america_now_they_dare_ring _alarms_about_trump_sanders_and_cast_themselves_as _saviors/)

This article pretty much echoes what I have been talking about during this election cycle. The best thing for America would be a Trump Sanders race for President. Why? Because it goes contrary to the Establishment. It could wake American's up in time to save the nation.


This week, on the night of the Indiana primary, I read one of the most loathsome political screeds (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html) it has been my misfortune to encounter.


It was an alarm bell raised by Andrew Sullivan, arguably the greatest hypocrite of the Bush era, on par with his partner in many crimes Christopher Hitchens (remember “Islamofascism?”). Sullivan proclaims that the election of Trump would be an “extinction-level” event. Well, perhaps it will be.


But the extinction Sullivan is most worried about is clearly that of his own breed of callous elites, who could care less about normal human beings who do not have decent jobs and who live in crappy housing and who are so desperate to find a way out of the trap that even someone like Trump starts sounding rational to them.


Now this panic alert, designed to get us in line behind Hillary, is raised by the man who ended The New Republic as we knew it (which then went on to end and then end again), promoting racist and imperialist dogma during his reign at the magazine in the 1990s, and then, with his finger in the wind (which to him and that other arch-hypocrite Hitchens meant being like George Orwell), turned into one of the biggest shills for the war on terror, the Iraq war, the whole works, all the while denouncing the fifth column within our ranks. This so-called journalist, who has no record of liberal consistency, who keeps shifting to whoever holds moral power at any given moment, is scaring us about the mortal threat that is Trump.


No, the danger is the elites, who have made such a joke of the democratic process, who have so perverted and rotted it from within, that the entire edifice is crumbling (to the consternation of the elites). Both parties are in terminal decline after forty years of ignoring the travails of the average worker (the Republicans admit they’re in the intensive care unit, while the Democrats calling for Sanders to quit already have yet to come around to admitting that they might have the flu), and voters on both right and left have at last—and this is a breath of relief—stopped caring about the cultural distractions that have kept the elites in power. No, they want their jobs back, even if it means building a wall, keeping Muslims out, deporting the illegals, and starting trade wars with China and Japan—because what else did the elites give them, they’re still opposing a living wage!

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PolWatch
05-07-2016, 07:38 AM
Good article! Some people seem to think that Trump/Clinton/Sanders/Cruz just appeared....like magic! We have watched the government of this nation be sold to the highest bidder and ignored the basic dishonesty of our elected representatives. We have allowed political discourse to sink to the lowest common denominator and laughed or cheered the crudity. The only thing that seems to have mattered is which team wins. We have accepted any candidate that flies the party flag. I remember people saying my country, right or wrong.....today's motto is my party, right or wrong.

Mac-7
05-07-2016, 09:15 AM
We have watched the government of this nation be sold to the highest bidder and ignored the basic dishonesty of our elected representatives.

The key word is "watched"

too many malcontents are just sitting on the sidelines complaining but doing nothing

Bo-4
05-07-2016, 09:53 AM
Nice find. I'll take Trump vs Sanders ---> DONE! :)

donttread
05-07-2016, 10:18 AM
Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders (http://www.salon.com/2016/05/06/our_awful_elites_gutted_america_now_they_dare_ring _alarms_about_trump_sanders_and_cast_themselves_as _saviors/)

This article pretty much echoes what I have been talking about during this election cycle. The best thing for America would be a Trump Sanders race for President. Why? Because it goes contrary to the Establishment. It could wake American's up in time to save the nation.



Read more at the link.

But why not Paul vs. Stein. Or my admittedly unconventional idea of a Paul/Stein ticket

MisterVeritis
05-07-2016, 10:25 AM
But why not Paul vs. Stein. Or my admittedly unconventional idea of a Paul/Stein ticket
Pipe. Dream. :grin: