Last night’s debate raises some interesting questions,
such as: would the Romans have elected Caligula if given the chance to vote?
Can the Republican party recover from Donald Trump? If the party poobahs “pull
the plug” on Trump, as some are threatening to do (that is, cut off funds to
his campaign), will they go down the drain with him anyway? Is the USA a
nation or just the world’s biggest comedy club? Where is the Deep State when
you really need it?
That odor wafting across the land is the smell of
Republicans with their hair on fire. Yet the gloat of astonishment on
Hillary’s face as she witnesses the Queeg-like crack-up of her rival will
eventually fade as she discerns the wreckage awaiting her in the oval office.
Weep for your country!
The only good to come out of this sordid election is the
certainty that a lot of political debris will be swept away in the Fourth
Turning underway. Out of the miasma of idiocy and posture that is this
election campaign, the hard-edged realities of our time will emerge and the
TV audience will come to the stark recognition that it is not just another
mere entertainment.
The other major nations of the world are not so much
ganging up on America, as Hillary would have it, but reasonably attempting to
ring-fence the mad bull that the USA has become — as the two candidates vie
to start World War Three with China and Russia respectively. The last resort
of the scoundrels in today’s version of the “yellow press” is to blame Russia
for attempting to meddle in our election. War, children, it’s just a shot
away.
It is getting to be too late to sort out all the
confusion sown by this horrific campaign. From here on its really more a
matter of the dust settling. In background of it all looms the train-wreck of
global finance, which will be the true determinant of what the American
people will have to do in the years ahead. During the weeks of the election
distraction, the European banks struggle to conceal their insolvency while
the politicians of Euro-land desperately try to paper over the cracks in
these fracturing institutions. Few can tell what is actually happening
in China’s banking system, but it’s sending out ominous tremors that are hard
to ignore. But be sure it is all daisy-chained right into Wall Street and the
US banks. The potential for wrecking markets and currencies around the world
is extreme at this moment. It may only be a matter of whether it happens
before or after the election.
Then we’ll see what happens when financial institutions
can’t trust each other. Trade stops. Economies crumble. Pretenses evaporate.
If it gets bad enough, the shelves of the supermarkets go bare in three days
and you’re living in a permanent hurricane disaster without the wind and
rain. Believe me, that will be bad enough. Hillary, if elected, will not get
to play FDR-2. Rather, she’ll be stuck in the role of Hoover, the Return,
presiding over a freight elevator of an economy with a broken cable. Expect
problems with the US dollar. Expect “emergency” actions. Expect the
unintended consequences of those actions.
If there is one outstanding upshot of these “debates” it
must be their staggering failure to reassure the American public that they
can expect effective leadership through the hardships ahead. There must be
many others out there like myself wondering who will emerge from the rubble?
I suspect it will be someone we haven’t heard of before, just as Bonaparte
was unheard of in France in 1792. This is not entirely a nation of clowns,
though it feels like that lately.
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page
!
