{"id":2175,"date":"2016-11-08T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2016-11-08T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T22:04:47","slug":"trump-is-just-symptom-of-clintons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/trump-is-just-symptom-of-clintons-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is Just Symptom of Clinton&#8217;s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dunno how this one is going to turn out, but just wanted to get some thoughts down about how badly our &#8220;Betters,&#8221; the Very Serious People, the \u00e9lites of the country, have so screwed us, and thus brought us to this pass. And they know it, too. They belatedly realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/11\/07\/us\/how-trump-can-win.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=us&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=69&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\">&#8220;those people&#8221; Beyond The Hudson and Outside of the Beltway actually&#8211;<em>g<\/em><em>asp!&#8211;<\/em>vote<\/a>. Now our betters\u00a0are in a panic. And at least paying lip service to the 99%. There have even been some mea culpas trotted out by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/20\/opinion\/the-decline-of-the-west-and-how-to-stop-it.html\">old bulls of foreign policy: <em>Please, please, pretty please, ye unwashed, give us just one more chance!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/10\/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul\/504710\/\">his Atlantic article, <\/a>another\u00a0in a long series of what I&#8217;m calling The Great Panic of Aught 16 (ie, the establishment in a tailspin over The Bern and The Donald):<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually quite good. Basically explains the genesis of the Democratic Leadership Council Democrat (the sellout wing of the party funded by the Koch Bros.) whom I so vehemently abhor. HRC is\u00a0the latest in a long line of these turncoats. Also helps explain the link between these bankster-friendly neo-liberals and the pro-war neo-cons, a link which I had always found bizarre but understand better now.<\/p>\n<p>But, sorry neo-liberal \u00e9lites, Hillary et al, you&#8217;ve had your chance, and you blew it. Win or lose, you have blown it. You should have read your <em>What&#8217;s the Matter with Kansas<\/em>\u00a0back in Aught Four and paid attention to its prescience. You should have paid attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-29\/disaster-inflation-bottom-95\">the data which so clearly showed the crushing of the poor and the middle class.<\/a> Instead of ensuring a more just and equitable America, you just doubled down on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Economics of Cruelty&#8211;Your unfair &#8220;free&#8221; trade pacts and tax policies that crush the 99% while gilding\u00a0the preciousness of the 0.1%<\/li>\n<li>Torture&#8211;You let them off the hook, shaming this nation, enfeebling\u00a0our moral standing.<\/li>\n<li>Warmongering&#8211;You voted for those wars.<\/li>\n<li>Stasiland&#8211;You turned the people&#8217;s government into a surveillance state, shredding our Constitution. It was a coup and you were part of it.<\/li>\n<li>Banksterism&#8211;You rescinded Glass-Steagall and other reasonable regulations, allowing the banksters to drive our economy into a ditch, then let them steal people&#8217;s houses. And\u00a0when that wasn&#8217;t enough, you let them loot the treasury. And now you cozy up to them. Yes, Hillary, brilliant idea you proposed at that Goldman Sachs dinner: let the banksters regulate the banksters.<\/li>\n<li>Global Warmism&#8211;You send us into multiple\u00a0wars for oil to\u00a0keep cars well-fueled, then the economy goes\u00a0into a tailspin from sky high fuel prices thanks to your pro-highway policies (remember your &#8216;drive til you qualify&#8217; housing policies?), your solution is&#8230;to build more highways! Thanks to your pro-gluttony transportation policies we are cooking the climate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You and your party had it all from 2009 to 2011&#8211;the presidency, congress, everything&#8211; and you did nothing to rectify the worst excesses of the Bush years. Indeed, you people just gave it your Democratic imprimatur.<\/p>\n<p>And then you wonder why the people revolted. \u00a0From 2009 to 2011 you had it all. And you just doubled down on the cruelty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelmoore.com\/trumpwillwin\/\">We&#8217;ve had quite enough of you people.<\/a> Even if you eke out a win we&#8217;ve had it with you.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, we the people have but one very blunt instrument available, and that is the vote. We couldn&#8217;t get the likes of Hillary to hear us, so masses of us voted against her in the primaries. It shook her up and made her adopt a more, shall we say, 99%-friendly posture. But the emails prove that she is busy staying cozy with the banksters and the 0.1%. And I will never be able to forgive her for her\u00a0Iraq War vote. So, I&#8217;m done with her. (Don&#8217;t worry, I won&#8217;t be voting Trump though.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts on why a demagogue is giving the establishment fits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[760,5,354,91,4,1],"tags":[1345,1348,1341,1013,1350,1347,1342,1349,1338,1339,1353,1354,1343,1344,1352,166,1340,260,1355,1346,1351],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-national-insecurity-heimatssicherheitsdienst-staatssicherheit","category-perspectives-on-american-gluttony","category-society","category-uncategorized","tag-bankster","tag-banksterism","tag-demagogue","tag-democratic-leadership-council","tag-drive-til-you-qualify","tag-economics-of-cruelty","tag-global-warmism","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-hrc","tag-neo-cons","tag-neo-liberals","tag-stasi","tag-stasiland","tag-strobe-talbott","tag-torture","tag-trump","tag-u-s-constitution","tag-very-serious-people","tag-warmonger","tag-whats-the-matter-with-kansas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}