Reflections: A People in Chains?

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Through Trump's cabinet nominations, this election has now revealed itself to have been a bloodless coup d'etat. Unless the electors, or the courts, find the courage and the will to overturn the results, the last vestiges of representative democracy will have gone by the board, replaced by the dictatorial rule of the oligarchic kleptocracy; the fascists in firm control.
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Rants: Clintonites! Put Up or STFU!

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Let's be frank: this whole shitstorm is nothing but smoke and mirrors. If Hillary and the rest of the Democrats really believe that 1) Trump is a criminal, and 2) the Russians tampered with voting machines and stole the election for him, then it is no less criminal to hide behind the skirts of "peaceful transition of power" and let the man take the oath of office.

Clearly, Hillary's corporate puppet masters don't want their lucrative boat capsized by a constitutional crisis and a dangerous international incident that can be avoided by simply letting the People be disenfranchised.

Clearly, they can live with Trump. They all play golf on the same courses, don't they?

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Reflections: Why Michael Moore Nailed It

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Do you know why Michael Moore was right, when almost nobody else was? It's because he pays attention to those people who voted against the system that has been screwing them for decades by voting against HRC.

Moore knew where they had the numbers and that they would turn out to vote. Democracy is dangerous. The classical Greeks found that out. And the Founding Fathers established this nation based on that premise.

So I was wrong: the fix was not in. The election was not rigged.

And now look.

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Reflections on the Elections: HRC Still Dissing Millennials & Others

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Hillary Clinton's campaign to-date seems to be directed with laser-like precision right at those who were automatically going to vote for her anyway. It more or less just pats those preconditioned voters on their collective heads and tells them how very *bright* they are for recognizing HRC to be the *most experienced* and *best qualified* presidential candidate EVER.

But for those potential voters who should be voting Democratic, but who are, at this point, still taking a knee to Hillary's theme music, she offers little-to-nothing. How DARE they question her supremacy? Did she not bring both Sanders and Warren to heel? Is that not proof enough for these idiots? Will they not come around now and be *useful idiots*? Time is running out!

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Reflections on the Elections: Hillary vs. Trump

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If I were a Hillary supporter, I would very much hope that the Donald isn't somehow disqualified as a candidate, because I don't think she could beat any normal Republican candidate at this point. My God, she's barely staying ahead of Trump.

 "At least she's better than Trump" becomes inoperative if Trump is suddenly gone.

Which is to say, they'd better stop merely attacking Trump and start convincing people that Hillary is actually a good choice on her own merits.

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Reflections: Consummatum Est

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AN EXPERIMENT THAT FAILED

The endemic herd mentality and stubborn stupidity of the American people exposed by the current political season--on both sides of the equation--has been demoralizing to the nth degree.

And now there has been the threat that the entire election process will be co-opted by the DHS.

Turn out the lights and lock up the lab. Consummatum est.

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Reflections: The Omens are Evil

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Since the disgraceful demise of Bernie Sanders' bogus "revolution," this has become the most depressing presidential campaign season ever.
Perhaps the worst thing about it at this point is that it is predictive of even worse things to come in 2020. 
It is impossible to imagine either Clinton or the other guy serving more than one term; and even less possible to imagine either of them serving as a catalyst for any positive change in this society, or in this world. 
The likelihood for 2020 is that Ted Cruz, or Paul Ryan, or Mike Pence easily defeats some Democratic nonentity who is rushed in to replace a washed-up Hillary.
At that point, reality really sets in; a very grim reality.

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Reflections: Election Day 2016--Hard Choices

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I just watched Bernie Sander's speech from Philly at the DNC last night. It is sad that it has come to this. But Bernie did get to me.

Obama promised most of what HRC now promises and was able to deliver only bits and pieces of it. HRC won't do any better unless the revolution extends down ticket. Even if you can't bring yourself to vote for Hillary--and I don't blame you there-- you must go and vote for the Democratic congressmen and senators who are up for election or reelection in your state and district. I personally contemplated abstention as an option this time around, but I now reject that notion as irresponsible and potentially destructive.

That said, we also need a strong anti-war movement such as we saw in the Vietnam era to put an end to HRC's murderous foreign policy agendas.It's all well and good if she can mitigate the obscene profit-taking of Big Pharma. But she must also put an end to the huge profitability of the arms industries and the slaughter of innocents abroad that those profits provoke and incite.

I haven't yet decided whether I can bring myself to vote for Hillary Clinton. But I have decided to vote. And as a resident of the crucial swing state of Ohio, with the polls currently showing Trump and Clinton tied, I am persuaded that if the election were being held tomorrow I would have to vote for Clinton--even though I would fear hating myself ever after for doing so.

Hillary Clinton is not a good human being, but we live in a fallen world and we must, of necessity, do the best we can with what we've got.

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