This election continues and worsens the anti-democratic trend that started in the 1990s. First the Republicans tried to overthrow the democratically elected president Bill Clinton because of a sex scandal. Then Bush won the 2000 elections on a technicality (having lost the popular vote) and this unleashed an avalanche of accusations that the Supreme Court had stolen the election from Al Gore. Then in 2004 Bush won the majority of the popular vote, but some Democrats noticed that Ohio would have tilted the electoral vote towards the Democratic candidate and started asking for a "recount" in Ohio (even if Bush had won the popular vote). Then in 2008 some Republicans came up with the fantasy that Obama was not born in the USA, and therefore his election (by a landslide) was null and void, and this story continued throughout his presidency. Obviously there are an increasing number of people who don't care about the will of the voters: they only care about making sure that their candidate wins, by whatever means. Politics has become so similar to business that an increasing number of people have forgotten the principle of democracy and only think in terms of marketing and selling their own brand. In 2016 the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, started talking of a "rigged" election even before one vote was cast. One of his mottos was "Lock her up!" demanding that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, be jailed (the way they treat political opponents in banana republics and communist dictatorships). There is also mounting evidence of a connection between Trump and Russia's president Vladimir Putin. Russia may have sensed that the US democracy is as weak as it has ever been, and that its system is vulnerable to an undercover operative. Trump has refused to release his tax returns.
My final thoughts on the 2016 presidential election
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Given that we already know that he has not paid any taxes, what else is there that is even more damning than not having paid taxes? It could be that his tax returns show his dealings with a foreign power, the same foreign power that has hacked and leaked information about Trump's opponent. A New York Times article revealed that Trump is not quite as rich as he claims: who is footing his bills? Donald Trump's political campaign has been led by people like Paul Manafort, the former lobbyist for Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, African dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and, last but not least, Ukraine's former president Viktor Yanukovych (Putin's stooge in Ukraine); and by Steve Bannon, a right-wing radical who also happens to be a Putin. Russia's ultra-nationalist Aleksandr Dugin, known as "Putin's Rasputin", has written: "Trump began in the United States a new revolution for your freedom and ours". The negative publicity relentlessly unleashed by Fox News and other mainstream media has created a very undemocratic mood, in which the reality of many small facts does not matter as much as the bigger lies that keep being repeated on the airwaves. For example, the economy is in much better shape than it was under George W Bush, but you wouldn't know it listening to Fox News. San Francisco is depicted as a "sanctuary city" living in anarchy and poverty when in fact the Bay Area is the wealthiest region in the USA with the lowest unemployment rate, the highest salaries and (alas) the highest home prices. The 24-hour "news" cycle at Fox News is meant to create an undemocratic atmosphere in which the only will of the people that is accepted is the one that Fox News likes (radical right-wing). Fox News has hammered Hillary Clinton for years after 4 US citizens died in an embassy attack in Lybia, but never found anything wrong with the 3,000 people killed on September 11 of 2001.
According to Fox News, the Clinton Foundation is a criminal organization, despite the fact that 87% of donations are spent in well-documented humanitarian projects, whereas the Trump Foundation somehow is ok, despite the fact that it doesn't have a single documented humanitarian project. Media on the right and on the left specialize in demonizing political opponents to an unprecedented degree. I would not be surprised if Hillary Clinton were assassinated. The climate is so undemocratic that people, taking for granted a victory by Hillary Clinton, already wonder whether Donald Trump will concede, as customary in the USA; but they should also ask the opposite question: if the unthinkable happen and Donald Trump wins, will (the super-ambitious) Hillary Clinton concede?
This is the end of the Reagan era. For three decades Reagan has been the unchallenged prophet of the Republican Party. Trump won by campaigning against free trade (he is opposed), fiscal conservatism (he would spend a fortune to build a useless wall with Mexico), and military intervention (he is opposed to the Iraqi war). He is not even a social conservative since he is addicted to divorce, has been mostly pro-abortion and never went to church. Despite all these anti-Republican traits, he won the Republican nomination. He stood against the principles of the Republican party and he won over the candidates who advocated those principles. Last but not least, today Reagan would be a Democrat: there is very little left in today's Republican Party of Reagan's Republican Party.
Donald Trump owes his fortune to Hillary Clinton. Any other Democratic candidate would have easily beaten a grotesquely incompetent candidate like Trump, but (right or wrong) Clinton is the only Democratic politician who is almost as unpopular as Trump. She outspent Trump 2 to 1, in same cases 3 or 4 to 1, and, yet, the race is tight until the very last minute: it is telling of how much people dislike her. Donald Trump is campaigning alone, not supported by anyone, not even by his own party, while Clinton has her husband, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and even her former opponent Bernie Sanders, campaigning for her all over the USA, plus pop stars and Hollywood celebrities. And, yet, the race is tight. The mother of all reasons to dislike her is that she didn't step aside: had she stepped aside, it would have been much easier to defeat Trump. She put her personal ambition before the good of her party and, more importantly, of the country; something to remember if she is elected.
Even the Republican Party forgot that this was supposed to be a referendum on "Obamacare", the much disliked health-care system introduced during Obama's first term. Well, this is still a referendum on "Obamacare". It has insured millions of people who did not have insurance, but at the cost of millions of dollars in additional premiums paid by people who had insurance. And the people who really need it are often the ones who cannot get it (e.g. people with no income) or for whom it makes no economic sense (if you are over 50 the plans are very expensive and if you have a medium income you don't qualify for "subsidies"). Many people just don't want four more years of Obamacare. If Donald Trump is the only way to undo Obamacare, so be it.
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According to the polls, Donald Trump loses among just about every ethnic group and every age group as well as among women. So how can he have won the Republican Party nomination and how can he still be in the race, even tied with Hillary Clinton in the polls? Because he gets a lot of support from white men who didn't go to college. Everybody else has an excuse if she or he missed the high-tech revolution and still works on "blue collar" jobs; but not white men. White men had all the advantages that African-Americans, Hispanics, women, second-generation immigrants and first-generation immigrants did not have. White men speak the language, they know the system, there are plenty of good colleges in their neighborhoods, they can qualify easily for financial help, and they were here when the high-tech revolution started. How could they have missed it? How did they end up being blue-collar workers when tens of thousands of foreign immigrants got their computer science or engineering or math degrees and easily found a job in places like Silicon Valley where salaries for a first-time job are three times the salary of a 50-year-old blue-collar job in the Midwest? That's a mystery that tens of thousands of immigrants don't quite understand (but they certainly thank these white US-born males for missing the opportunity). Viewed from California, it is really weird that white men are voting for Trump because of the economy: what is wrong with a booming economy? Well, it's not booming for them. Now for these very white males who have been left behind the solution is to elect someone who will save them from complete annihilation by turning the system upside down:
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Trump said he will force companies like Apple to stop making products abroad and he will bring back manufacturing jobs. That, of course, will greatly harm the part of the USA that is doing just fine. Imagine what Apple would do if forced to make its iPhones in the USA, which would cause the price of the iPhone to skyrocket, which would send Apple bankrupt: Apple would either shut down or move to China. And so would all the other companies whose competitivity depends on using cheap manufacturing outside the USA. The experiment of the government telling corporations what to do in order to help poor uneducated people had been tried before in many countries: it is called communism, and it has always failed. Besides, we don't really want any manufacturing job in our backyard. Those are the industries that pollute. We want clean software, not dirty hardware. These white uneducated men are also hostile to science in general, and not only to climate science: they just don't like the scientist who tells them things that they cannot understand because they didn't go to school. These white men didn't study geography and don't have the money to travel around the world: they get annoyed when they hear news of all these strange nationalities. They want a return to white Christian nationalism not because of a racist view of the others but because it's easy to understand for people who know nothing about the rest of the world. The fury of white blue-collar men against illegal immigration is ironic. Due to the fact that Congress never managed to pass a decent immigration bill, the illegal immigrants are the lifeblood of the economy. They do all the jobs that these white blue-collar men would never do. And the illegal immigrants do it for little money, making those services affordable to middle-class families.
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Places like California where salaries are skyrocketing need more illegal immigrants, not fewer, because there aren't enough workers for the humble jobs (in construction, agriculture and services) to match the demand of a growing economy. Who will take care of you when you are 80 years old? Almost certainly a foreign-born nurse. Hopefully, you will be able to hire a foreigner who doesn't charge the outrageous rates of US citizens, otherwise you will probably just die, unable to pay for the help you will need. Illegal immigrants prospered during the Great Recession, when white middle-class men were getting unemployment benefits: the illegal immigrants took all the jobs that US citizens didn't want and did much better than white men with the same (low) level of education. Trump's white male supporters advocate a sinister scenario: they want the USA to become a country run not by winners but by losers. They want to impose the rule of the losers, the rule of the people who dropped out of college and totally missed the train of progress (not to mention of women's emancipation).
If Hillary Clinton wins, as the polls predict, she will probably make the huge mistake of claiming that she has a mandate. That's what George W Bush did when he lost the popular vote but became president thanks to a technicality. Clinton is in a similar situation: if she wins, it will not be because people voted for her, but because people voted against Trump. Very few voters (even within her own party) would have picked her as their ideal president out of one hundred politicians selected at random. She will have absolutely no mandate. Hillary Clinton needs to remember that a decent Republican candidate would have easily defeated her. Trump was a godsend for her. There is a reason if people voted for Trump despite all of Trump's shortcomings.
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People are indeed fed up with "politially correct" talk. Trump's unhibited comments were a fresh draft of oxygen for people asphyxiated by political correctedness. The USA is a country where an incredible number of words are banned. Not even in China are there so many restrictions on which words you can use. Whenever a public official opens his or her mouth, s/he has to consult with lawyers and experts to make sure that s/he is not saying something that is sensitive to this or that group (and, generally speaking, the least protected group is precisely the white males who support Trump). For example, we cannot say that most violent crime is due to young black males, even if the statistics say so. It is politically incorrect to say so, even if it is so (the USA is not such a dangerous country if you don't count black neighborhoods, as most homicides happen in black neighborhoods and are committed by young males). It does not help to solve the problem, and black communities are the first victims of this problem. Ironically, the politically-correct speech that is supposed to protect them is actually one reason why their situation is not improving. Nor does it help to keep calling Islam a "religion of peace" to avoid that Muslims get offended. Islam is the only major religion that was founded by a man who personally killed, the only religion that started with a war, and the whole point of that war was to expel all other religions. The vast majority of victims of this "religion of peace" are Muslims themselves. It helps neither "us" (non-Muslims) nor them (Muslims) to pretend that there is nothing wrong with the foundations of Islam.
You should vote for Hillary Clinton. The reason is none of these. The reason is very practical. It is very likely that the Republican Party will retain control of both the house of representatives and the senate.
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If Trump becomes president with house and senate on his side, you will see not only his current political opponent go to jail but also any politician and any journalist who dares criticize him. Even if you believe that an unchecked Republican government (White House and Congress) can be trusted with unlimited power in domestic and foreign affairs, you should think about the consequences for the US democracy. And i, for one, don't trust the Republican Party with unlimited unchecked power: they are too influenced (and funded) by the military industrial establishment and de facto take orders from Israel, which means that the USA would almost certainly get involved in another major war, causing another major budget deficit, another major recession and more anti-US terrorism. The Republicans are using a scare tactic, predicting that Hillary Clinton will nominate so many justices of the Supreme Court in the next four years. First of all, the president cannot appoint a justice of the Supreme Court: the Congress has to approve the nomination. And that's the main point, because the situation is exactly the opposite of what the Republicans claim: if Hillary Clinton is president, checked by a Republican-dominated Congress, she will not be able to appoint radical left-wing justices; but if Trump is president, the Republicans (who control Congress) will be able to appoint the justices they want, no matter how radical. A Clinton presidency will be much more "fair and balanced" (to use Fox News' favorite oxymoron) than a Trump presidency for the simple fact that it will be checked by a Congress dominated by the other party. The other reason we are voting for Hillary Clinton is simple: she will be the first woman to be elected president of a country that has been around for 240 years. That would indeed be something to be proud of. It is the only thing that can make us proud in this awful presidential election.
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im not reading all that shit. is piero being the contrarian he is and going for trump? is he /ourguy/?
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OP, tldr, but this pic should easily explain it.
This is what you get paid for lying to the public for an hour straight. It goes back further than this and I'd hate to think what Donald Duck gets for his rallies. The whole thing is beyond fucking corrupt.
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This is what we should be striving for. A capitalist nationalistic meritocracy, built upon the ideals of the founding fathers and the US Constitution. A society hell-bent on achieving American greatness and the preservation of American culture and values, at the detriment of all others. This is the only natural, sane responce to a world filled with sub-human terrorists and degenerate leftists whose only goal in life is the extermination of everything just and pure.
We tried to give globalism it's chance. We signed free trade agreements, with the promise of more jobs and cheaper wares. We opened our borders to the world, with the promise that diversity and multiculturalism would make us strong.
And what did we get? The loss of our jobs to the third world, and our factories in ruins. Welfare dependent immigrants, with high crime and terrorism as an additional caveat. It ends today.
We need a new system. Something more noble, than the petty mercantile aspirations of multinational bankers. Something greater than the slave-like morality imposed upon us by political correctness in this country. A society built upon unshakable, indelible foundations, woven from our own stock, and goverened by the light of apotheosis. That driving, all-consuming framework of beliefs that the American man is his own God. That he is God. The keeper of his own destiny. Noble by birth, master by choice, tyrant by need, and ruler by right.
This nation was great once, and it can be again. But first, we must burn the media, kill the corporatist, and purge the politicians. And then when we've freed ourselves of corruption, degeneracy, and dishonesty, then and only then, will we Make America Great Again. And the planet will tremble.
This is our destiny.
Dude, OP didn't write this. Scaruffi did.
holy shit. BASED SCRUFFI.