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330 Million Citizens & Only One Democrat Interested In Being President
Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com,
I was watching Meet the Press Sunday and found it fairly comical when they got around to discussing Hillary Clinton. In fact, they replayed a SNL skit from Saturday night that made fun of Hillary and the fact that she is the only viable candidate for the Democrats because of the Clinton dynasty. The host of Meet the Press, Chuck Todd and his panel guests all had a good laugh “ha ha ha… yes that’s funny because it’s true ha ha ha”. And once they had a good if not awkward chuckle, one can only presume at the expense of the American people, they simply moved on and stepped over that giant elephant in the room. So despite the fact that we all understand something is incredibly wrong with the fact that Hillary has no challengers in a nation of 330 million citizens we are simply supposed to ignore this giant puss filled boil on the face of our democratic process.
How can this be? How is it that in such a well educated society with an abundance of opinions throughout this vast land the Democratic party is unable to find anyone outside of the core political machine willing to even take a stab at becoming the chief public servant? This is supposed to be a self governed democracy. We have destroyed the entire Middle East over the past 15 years in the name of self governance and rule by the people for the people. What a farce! How can anyone in this country say with a straight face that we are a nation ruled by the people for the people when the system is so locked down to anyone outside of the elite political insiders that we cannot even find a few tokens to throw at the facade of democracy at work?
It is absolutely disgusting that on one hand our political ‘leaders’ stand high on their towers of righteousness proselytizing a natural right to self governance around the world to the point that they use it to defend the immense piles of collateral carnage building up behind the fence. While on the other hand our political ‘leaders’ have mutated the political process here at home to such an extreme that not only do we not have any impact on the legislative process between elections but have now totally abandoned the actual election process toward self governance itself.
That is, it has become such an incredulous notion that a citizen outside of the political elites could ever hope to one day lead this nation as President that we simply stopped wasting any effort on pretending. I don’t just mean the you and me type folks have given up but even those who a couple decades ago would have run and perhaps stood a slight chance have now given up. Again the process is such that the political elite is constantly making the process more and more water tight so as to completely negate any chance of an outsider imposing their or the peoples’ will on Washington.
The truth is the American citizen has no way to bestow her will on the political process any longer. Slowly and methodically over the past 100 years we the people have been relegated to just a logistical function in the political process i.e. we are the coin in the coin toss.. heads Dems or tails Repubs. But we get no say as to which end of the field or if we will kick or receive, we’re just the logistic function that dictates which team gets to make the calls.
The insider circle continues to get smaller and smaller. Here we are about to see the third Bush and second Clinton to run for president in just the past 25 years. And sure one can say that well the Bush’s are citizens too so why not them? And my answer is this – If they really and truly wanted what was best for this nation in the spirit of the founding fathers both the Bush’s and the Clintons would recuse themselves from this election. The idea is that the founding fathers were adamant that America not turn into some oligarchy or aristocracy. As we have so obviously become exactly that, those who put their nation before themselves would do the right thing and break the oligarchical cycle. But these familial dynasties don’t and they won’t and so we know that their self interest is greater than their interest in what’s best for America.
But we the people laugh awkwardly with the press as we step over the glaring contradictions to democracy in our own political process. In fact, we’ve gotten so good at ignoring the things that should be obvious causes for disqualification of any candidate that we don’t even blink at criminal activities like Hillary’s email debacle. We ignored that George junior dodged the Vietnam draft and then dodged his duties in the role that allowed him to dodge the draft all while other men were being sent to their certain death.
What makes that even more sickening is the fact that his father and grandfather were very much involved in getting us into that conflict and every other conflict of the past 100 years. Seriously, the Bush family has been involved in America’s participation in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and the past 15 years of continuous simultaneous multiple major theatre wars. Anyone interested is knowing how deep the Bush family roots dig into the covert ties between the Department of Defense (DoD) and military industrial complex (MIC) should read the book “Vietnam War, Volume 1” by Vinh Truong. Even to someone like myself who was fairly cognisant of the Bush family’s ties to the American war machine, this book was shocking. Mr. Truong provides such vivid detail at such a granular level that it leaves no room for ambiguity. This is the type of book that should be part of every high school’s literature curriculum.
But I digress. Look the point is that we the people have slowly been pushed out of our own system of self governance. Yet the political elites that pushed us out still use the perception of American democracy as a call to arms around the world. A call that puts our sons and daughters into their graves or into a new life of suffering that one wouldn’t wish on one’s enemy. Yet here we go into another presidential election that is estimated to spend $4B to $5B simply to get one of these political elites a job. One job. Anyone willing to spend $5B on securing one job has no f$cking business being in charge of $1 let alone a $16T economy.
The system and its players have become nothing but a wax museum. The election campaign landscape is but an attempt by a group of strategists to create the Norman Rockwellesque picture they feel the average American wants to believe and thus will respond positively to. And Americans know our part. So such a picture is delivered to us and we, in kind, know we are supposed to appreciate such a world and so we go along with it. We shun any candidate who slips up and cusses but we all run to the candidate that kisses a baby and snaps out a witty G rated one liner. It is all absolute nonsense.
You could ask 1000 people what characteristics they want in a president and 990 will describe Ron Paul. However, ask 1000 people what they think of Ron Paul and 990 will say he’s crazy. Why?? Because that’s what we’ve been told to think. So we think it. It is that simple. And that is why this country has been deteriorating for 100 years and really accelerating, faster each year for the past 15, toward utter collapse. But not to fear, the free fall is about to end… and with a thump. Economic technicians, if such a thing existed, will be looking at the long term economic charts and calling the period between 2010 and 2016 an economic dead cat bounce. Perhaps the first real economic dead cat bounce meaning an economic collapse before the economy has been able to recover and grow since the previous collapse. This is a sign of the absolute abuse of power that leads to resource misallocations throughout the entirety of our society. Simply put… the wax world we have created is beginning to melt down.
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You're onto something. Who are the Clintons to the deep state? They're nobody. Hillary is a footnote in history. The Bushes are the CIA. Jeb wasn't ready in 2008, so they put their man Barry in instead. Now Jeb is ready and 2016 will be his. Hillary is simply being dangled out there, with all her "public scandals", to make it not look too obvious that the Bush dynasty lives on.
I mean, George Snr literally coordinated JFKs murder to secure his family's ascendency. Think he's going to let a Clinton foil what he's paid for?
You make a good point, Hillarity is just what Jeb needs to drive the herd over to his camp. These people are like border collies hearding sheep. I don't want to be a sheep, voting only encourages them, and if it changed anything, they would make it illegal.
You're overthinking this.
By a lot.
You're not thinking. Period.
my nightmare has eric holder as president (if obama leaves office) and Obama as Sec.Gen. of The U.N. Just imagine all the harm they could to to the USA at that point!
my nightmare has eric holder as president (if obama leaves office) and Obama as Sec.Gen. of The U.N. Just imagine all the harm they could to to the USA at that point!
your astute observations don't match up with the fat obese woman in front of my check out lane, buying her shitty cheap beer/vodka and her cheap cigarettes, throwing the butts on the ground rather than in the multiple containers around the gas pumps. BTW, she needs to wash her hair to get the bugs out.
And her vote is worth the same as the vote of a reasonable, rational, contributor to our species.
Assuming a vote is worth anything in the Punch and Judy show.
Sorry, but I think you may be drinking the kool aid. This will be a very close election. Nonetheless it will be the 1%that decides it. Not that it matters as there's not a dime bit of difference between the two. Stand back and look at all the demographics. Who is the clear majority between male and female? Who has almost 50% of the nation as part of a free shit army? What does the national media do to Republicans? Alternatively, when SNL makes fun of candidates do they win or lose? People are too sheepish about obamacare. People don't turn their attention to the election until 2 weeks before voting. Most are too busy just trying to live paycheck to paycheck. Most are waking up and realizing it doesn't make a difference who wins. Most want us to avoid sending our kids to a war and are sick of seeing them maimed but too busy in day to day living to do anything about it.
Reminds me of Viet Nam. Endless war, no fucking good reason.
Wheels are coming off the bus
It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England!
I think she takes bitch pills in the morning, lunch and dinner.
By suppository...
I don not believe "bloody Hands" Hillary Clinton is a shoe-in for the next President. I believe she will be arrested for felony crime AND also for war crimes. She has murdered nations and stolen billions. Hillary has made a big mistake coming out and showing her face. She should have gone quietly with her friend Jon Corzine to exile.
Hillary will be arrested, tried and executed.
Hillary Clinton knowinly and willfully murdered the Libyan Embassy staff. Hillary Clinton willfully and intentionally murdered 250 Americans in 2014 at the hands of illegal alien invaders she and her progressive criminal cohorts allow into the USA.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/14/feds-releasing-illegal-i...
"The data, released by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte at the beginning of a hearing with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana, also showed that the 30,558 criminal aliens ICE knowingly released back into the community in 2014 had amassed nearly 80,000 convictions, including 250 homicides, 186 kidnappings and 373 sexual assaults."
The push back against criminal progressive law breaking tyranny and murder by Hillary Clinton and the rest of the progressives will be a tsunami that hits without warning.
Grimaldus
hahaha, that's a good one. Hillary arrested. She richly deserves it, but do you honestly think that will ever happen? We live in a society where Hillary (or Obama, etc) can do ANYTHING and not face consequences. Anything. Dream it up, the worst things you can imagine. The most anti-American things. They can execute a terrorist act on this country and not go to jail. They can sic the government on their adversaries and no one bats an eye. They can aid and abet the enemy and not pay a price.
Keep living the dream. We don't send our elites to prison much less the gallows in the United States of Oligarchy
She can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at her.
Ahhh...Monty Python, if only life imitated art.
Unfortunately reality is far more surreal.
I hate articles that are just 1 big long winded whinge festive, with no suggestions for resolutions. That is exactly what this article is! However I have to make this the exception to the rule, what a great rant, and fantastic points. This article sums up all that is wrong with the U.S. It actually is the finality of democratic society, the U.S was founded on the principle of rewarding hard work, commercialism and consumerism was the result. Finally the game of monopoly draws to it's familar end, one person owns all the property and everyone else playing is just hopelessy rolling the dice. Even the winners of the game of monopoly have become bored with the game, and are leading to more and more extremist positions.
Will be interesting to see who gets pissed off enough to finally flip the board in disgust, or will the game simply start again with the same biased bankers in control.
I live in Australia and we are still lucky to enjoy a good standard of living (exception of stupidly high property market). However it certainly seems time has come for Americans to start fighting for their own country rather than other peoples.
I agree. Everything in the article is true, but it's just stating what has been patently obvious for a long time. When someone like Ted Cruz suggests we follow the Constitution and gets lampooned, you know we're in trouble. It may take 5 years or 50 years, but I don't see any solution but a full reboot ala Atlas Shrugged.
I'm all for following the Constitution, but I don't need Ted Cruz or some other dickhead politician telling me how to do it.
WTF happened to all of the comments? And in the AZ cop running a guy over thread too?
Someone said it happened to HH's Article Too.
It's a lot of posts....and it's very selective.
I wouldn't call it very selective. It is well over half of the posts.
It's growing and growing....someone is laying waste to Zerohedge land.
I'm wondering if one of the tylers snapped? Lizard people?
Truly odd. Now I go into "My Account" and click on "follow this users comments" and it pops up with the name DuneCreature already in the field - I put in my username, click, and I'm back to the same page with DuneCreature in the username field again. *sigh*
To Serve Man ...
It's a... Cookbook!
I've had a lot of trouble accessing the internet from my computer this morning, so I checked out my cell phone and tried to look up a couple of web pages, and nothing would load, not even Yahoo. Note that I'm not talking about loading onto my phone from wi-fi, it has it's own connection to the internet. Then I finally get this page to load, and the comments are all missing. Interesting start to the day.
My coffee seems to be a lot stronger this morning than usual..., and I always make it just the same...
arkancide
Jade Helm?
"the Democratic party is unable to find anyone outside of the core political machine willing to even take a stab at becoming the chief public servant"
When I was attending UC Berkeley, there was a satire rag called the Heuristic Squelch (like The Onion) that the students put out regularly. They went on a tear bashing Chelsea's, shall we say, lack of physical beauty. The attacks were vicious and often very funny. Chelsea was attending Stanford at the time. One day, all the attacks magically stopped and never reappeared again. Scuttlebutt on campus was that the Secret Service started threatening the editors.
I don't think it's that no one is interested in opposing Hitlery. It's that the Clinton Crime Syndicate is not afraid to use any and all means necessary to get what they want, including using SS thugs to terrorize college kids. Nobody wants to get Vince Fostered, so no one is going to oppose the Warthog Hag. These people are straight-up gangsters. And they're running the country.
You went to Berkeley and you're reading ZH?! You HAVE to be the only one. Hats off to you, you made it. :-)
Chelsea Clinton for Pres. 2024
'Ha! Then who's Vice President... Jerry Lewis?'
"Warthog Hag" +100
Bread and circus for the plebs. Ralph Nader clearly warned us of the two-party duopoly 15 years ago. For those who still don't see it, it's too late. There'll be no dark horse in this election. Americans deserve what they get.
George Wallace said "There ain't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties" back in '68. This isn't new information.
What about the Lannisters????
I know you americans critisize crapy 3rd world countries for dictatorships, oligarchys etc
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE USA ???
In a country with 330 MILLION PEOPLE !
What are the odds of having a father and a son presidents (Bush)
A husband and a wife (Clintons) ???
Dont tell me the other 329,999.995 citizens are not interested in politics
USA is just the same corruption and anti-democracy as everywhere else, it is just more HYPOCRIT or its citizens are more DUMB
There were several pages of comments here last night.
Something ain't right.
In case I don't get to say it later....it's been nice knowing you guys.
This ain't the only thread that this happened to.
BTW, Hillary is a shrill vicious cunt.
Can't we all just exchange phone numbers and start one big group text?
A Harpie!
We have a Military Republic. And one the frequently uses the "Noble Lie" from Plato's Republic. Several important facts about our Nation Government have to be reconciled with their opposition to our US Founding Documents.
- Empires & Super Powers Require strong Financing or Revenue through Taxes for a Huge Military and must exercise this power around the world
- A strong Central Government is not a requirement for a Constitutional Democracy at all, Founding Documents do not provide for this
- Republics don't need openness, transparency, free speech, a First Amendment, Free Internet, Small Businesses, a Large Population of Self Employed people, or freedom from Secrets...
- It is quiet the opposite, Republics can Thrive by censorship, propaganda, control, money in politics, secretive Banking, Secretive Accounting, Secretive Financing, Secretive Trade Deals and huge strong corporate powers
- We have Democracy on the Local Level, but power has been pulled to Washington DC, Washington DC's Funding, Wall Street, and Huge Corporations that can set their business terms while leveraging trade and cheap labor
- The Marriage between Huge Corporations & Federal Government is another sign that we don't have equal opportunity or a Democracy
- The loss of small businesses, the declining number of corporation, and the decline of self employment must be noted as a trend counter to democracy & freedom
"....If they really and truly wanted what was best for this nation in the spirit of the founding fathers both the Bush’s and the Clintons would recuse themselves from this election. The idea is that the founding fathers were adamant that America not turn into some oligarchy or aristocracy. As we have so obviously become exactly that, those who put their nation before themselves would do the right thing and break the oligarchical cycle. But these familial dynasties don’t and they won’t and so we know that their self interest is greater than their interest in what’s best for America."
Perhaps or "clearly" there are unofficial power structures that lie outside of the National Government.
And why would foreign powers not want to set up more of a continuity of government from American Royalty type families. Why wouldn't Anglo Countries put their financing behind the USA at it's birth. Why wouldn't a Unified Europe after WWII not put their financial power behind US Politicians. Why wouldn't our Secret Agencies, the Shadow MIC, attempt to put financial and other powers to use to influence US Politicians... like putting a former CIA Executive in the White House and controlling congressional committee members through promises to share secret information.
Yep, ZH is now censoring out posts that puppetmasters don't like.
Buh-Bye.
I'm holding out hope that ZH just got hacked....crossing my fingers.
In a perfect world....we'd catch Hillarys fingers in here.
The new name ...
HuffHedge.
"On a long enough timeline, everyone will have a skull full of mush."
Here is an example where a post that I commented on was deleted but my comment wasn't. I'm not a computer guy, but like a new port was started and another was turned off.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-15/ecb-preview-draghi-address-bond...
And what about the post yesterday where Winston Churchill suggested that it would be a good idea to make people pass the citizenship test before they can vote?
Would that screw up the Diebold pre-programming? Or affect which sockpuppet each party was running?
Where did all the comments go? Looks like a whole slew of comments got Corzined...
Yeah, they did. Guess censorship is alive and well.
First they came for the comments........
Women don't like her. End of story.
I don't know why ZH posts are being deleted at full page(s) pace but i posted this days ago and it was deleted. I will continue to repost as i think it is important.
There are many folks in every society who either choose to not think for themselves for whatever reasons (not enough free time from their required 3 jobs, are very passive, uneducated, etc) or are incapable of such. Most of these people are good, hard-working folks who simply do not realize the implications of their inactions – personally and collectively to the country.
The Church's in the US are next in line for blame for their apathy or protection of self-interests (after the individual). Many of those people who are honest, hard working but refuse to educate themselves for whatever reason, also attend these Churches. These Churches KNOW the US Troika (US GOV + TBTF WS BANKS & FED RES + US MIC) have destroyed the US for their personal gains yet they refuse to call them out. Heck, I even had my church here in Dallas - WaterMark Chruch - accuse me of "scorched earth" policy for simply saying as much!
I am a God-Fearing man but I will never step foot in an organized religious establishment again.....especially WaterMark Church……and I now understand why the fellow who posted years ago that, atleast modern day, if not all prior, religious establishments are established for, or eventually become, nothing more than a “Population Pacification Program (PPP)”!