At best, this is going to be a "hold your nose and vote" sort of election. The Anointed One will win. Of that I have no doubt, but it'll be a disaster for the populace as a whole.dillon wrote:Old salt, I think there is indeed a "silent majority" in America, and they're about to elect Hillary Clinton President of the United States.
The fatalist in me is leaning towards Trump, more in the "they shoot horses, don't they?" vein than anything else, in that perhaps it's time to put this poor old nag down; however I'd rather not take the rest of the planet with it when the missiles fly. He wouldn't be the first ignoramus to have held the office, but he could be the last. (His choice of VP also worries me; we'd be one rifle-shot from becoming a theocracy.)
A Clinton presidency will merely continue the same slide that's been going on for longer than a generation now, and will likely see the end of it; but instead of it going boom in a grand nuclear fireball will merely see internal collapse, which will then, of necessity, become mind-bogglingly repressive and violent as the masses have to be kept under control by firepower and brute force alone. Rule of law will cease to exist. This is what happens when economies collapse. It will not be covered on Fox
Now there's a name I haven't heard in ages! If memory serves, the indictment was for tax-evasion. I forget whether a trial even followed, but that does hark back to a more reasonable day when the elites actually paid some of their share in tax -- and tried like mad to avoid doing so. Nowadays, that's been legislated away and it's up to the working class -- or what's left thereof -- to support the government. 'Twas a quainter period in time -- a time where conspiracy was actually necessary in the commission of crimes; nowadays, the Leader says it's legal and it miraculously is. Where's the fun in that?It's ironic that Republicans have fallen so far as to become now, in the words of that great (indicted) GOP superstar Spiro Agnew (actually those of Republican speechwriter William Safire) only "nattering nabobs of negativism."
