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How reassuring is it to Hillary, exactly, that she won what amounted to a
straw poll totaling less than 11,000 votes among the various Nevada hotel
employees unions? You could tell from her pained, artificial smile at the
victory podium that there is something booby prize-ish about that narrow
triumph. And what was with the metallic red outfit that had her looking like
a previously-owned Christmas tree ornament? Maybe her handlers put her in
Kevlar for the occasion.
She’ll need it as this fretful election campaign moves into the middle
innings. That trademark unconvincing smile masks the embarrassing truth that
the fix is in for Hillary inside the dark machine that is the Democratic
Party hierarchy, hijacked by chairperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s league of
crones. The so-called “super-delegates” have all been rounded up and branded
with a big smoking “H” on their hindquarters, leaving poor Bernie in the
alkali basin of dashed hopes.
Readers have noticed (and complained loudly) lo these many months that I couldn’t
get on-board for Bernie. I’m glad that someone opposed Mz It’s-My-Turn, but
the Vermonter-from-Brooklyn lacks the juice to drive the necessary wooden
stake into her grifter’s heart. The Goldman Sachs speaking fees ($200-K-plus
each) should have been enough to send her to the donkey’s graveyard but, like
so many awful truths in our over-amped and under-brained world, it got sucked
into the TMZ alternative universe of discarded realities.
The latest simpleton’s political theory floating around the ether says
that Hillary is guaranteed to get the overwhelming support of black voters.
Why is that exactly? And what does it mean? Is she going to re-run the civil
rights era? Is she going take up the banner for “safe spaces” on campus? Is
she going to join the Oscars boycott? And, honestly, what has Mr. Obama done
for black America, besides provide a model for how you can get somewhere in
this society by learning how to speak English intelligibly?
So, the simpleton’s theory goes: Hillary wins the black and Hispanic vote
and a big majority of womens’ votes. What does that mean? That America is now
split into an ethnic-and-womens’ party (Dems) against a white mens’ party
(Repubs)? Isn’t that a nice recipe for a multi-dimensional civil war?
Actually, it would be the mere seasoning in a stew of civilizational
crisis simmering on the margins of the stupidest election contest in American
history that could literally blow the country to pieces. The news media is,
for instance, perfectly oblivious to the awful instabilities blossoming on
the financial scene. In fact, the banks and markets are behaving in a way
that suggests shocking disruptions to everyday life before the general
election is even held. How would the Hillary-versus-Trump match-up go in a
September of bank bail-ins and empty supermarket shelves due to the inability
of businesses to service one another?
Rumblings out of the banking system ought to inform us that trust in
mutual obligations is dwindling to the same zero-peg (and under) as
world-wide interest rates. Something’s got to give and something will give
(perhaps starting with something that has the initials “DB”) and then a whole
lot of other things will give — beating a path swiftly to disrupting the
normal complex operations of daily life that put food in your microwave and
gasoline in the convenience store pumps. At that point, of course, all bets
are off. Without being too cute about it, we ought to have reason to worry
that America will be too disorderly later this year to even hold the 2016 general
election.
As for Mr. Trump, he remains what I said at the campaign’s outset: worse
than Hitler, lacking the brains, charm, and savoir faire of the Ol’
Fuhrer, and with his darkness even more plainly visible. Even Adolf could
manage to get his necktie on so that it didn’t dangle around his nutsack. I
don’t mean to trivialize the difference between these two psychopaths, except
to say that America will be very very sorry to follow the tune of the so-far
leading Republican candidate’s pied-pipings.
Frankly, if Mr. Trump actually manages to technically snag the party’s
nomination, I can imagine several consequences. One, that he will indeed
succeed in destroying the party. The other leaders at the dark heart of its
hierarchy will never stand for Trump. In that case, they will form a
breakaway rump GOP and throw their support to Michael Bloomberg, if he
decides to jump in — and he might be enough of a true patriot to do that. The
less appetizing alternative consequences involve the apparatus of the runaway
Deep State (NSA and the military) either bumping off Trump, or staging a coup
d’état against him in the event that he manages to get elected. I’m not
advocating for those outcomes, but you ought to be prepared for the
possibilities.
Most of all, don’t underestimate the power of events to outrun
personalities this year.
