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Both Trump and
Clinton are taking a lot of heat in their race to become the nominee of their
party for President…their trust scale for each of them is low both inside and
outside their respective party and even in the foreign press.
Trump’s often aggressive manner and open bashing of
anyone who gets in his way has turned off many within his own party and members
of many minorities who openly and sometimes violently protested at his
political rallies. Both candidates rank
low in polls on the honesty scale.
I see ‘Never Hillary,”
‘Never Trump’ and even ‘Never Mind’ signs everywhere. Poor Bernie never had a chance as he was set
up from the get-go by the Democratic party as a straw candiate but surprised
even himself in the primaries and I am bit surprised he never confronted
Hillary about her false tax returns [which she was recently forced to amend to
reflect some ahh, major ‘inaccuacuries,’ or other problems of her past. Trump
won’t release his returns until the IRS finishes his audit, which is standard
for any business.
Young people have voted for Sanders versus Clinton by
almost comically wide margins. They
favored him 54 percent to 37 percent in a USA
Today Poll taken in March. In the
Iowa caucuses, Sanders beat Clinton 84 percent to 14 percent among voters under
30.
Hillary’s campaign is still plagued by potential criminal
charges stemming from her mishandling of sensitive emails by having a server at
her a home while acting as Secretary of State, something she shoudn’t have
done. Hillary has a lot of previous
baggage as well dating back years from Whitewater to Benghazi [even so far as
insulting the widows of those killed in that fiasco] to insulting her Secret
Service staff during her previous tenure in the White House.
Most insiders feel she was second rate Secretary of State
and that she’ll simply become Obama Part II and will carry on his anti-gun
program and ‘give all the illegals a free ride’ program.
The former first lady runs about the nation telling black
audiences they are victims [oh how they love hearing that] ‘systemic t racism’
and white privilege. Meanwhile, Hillary
polls horribly among the large majority of white males. A lot of voters have left the GOP because
they’ve become weak kneed on many issues have allowed Obama to run ram shod
over issues while ‘apologizing’ to the world for all the wrongs the we as a
nation have supposedly done-none of that makes many white voters happy.
[I wonder how many
voters remember that Hillary functioned as one of the vicious partisans on
the Watergate committee? ]
One pundit we learned is trying to assemble a $100K
reward to anyone who can provide information that leads to the arrest and
imprisonment of Hillary! While a
Canadian site is offering free immigration assistance to anyone who wants to
leave the US if Hillary becomes President…to counter that site, a dating site,
Maple Match, offered to do the same if Trump becomes President…
Either way, as most of know, if our system works the way
it’ supposed to [it didn’t always with Obama at the helm] “the country can ill
afford four years of a left-leaning
Hillary Clinton with the Middle East in turmoil, an anemic economy, and
as many as four Supreme Court seats coming for grabs,” said Greg Jones of DailyCaller.com
Peter Beinart in
the Atlantic said “the bad news is that the Republican party
is about to nominate the most dangerous presidential nominee in American
history…but Trump is not going to beat Hillary in November.”
It’s obvious this flatworm hasn’t been studying what just
took place or how angry many Americans have become and despite what polls among
Hispanics and women might suggest, they all ignore the unregistered
independents [such as myself] who often
decide elections! Nearly everyone,
including many Democrats such as the coal miners in W. VA, are angry with
Clinton and others who see her as a job killing pro-NAFTA free trader.
One-third of the families of frontline manufacturing
workers during Obama’s tenure in the US are enrolled in a government safety-net
program like food stamps or medicaid, according to researchers at University of
CA at Berkeley…these factory employees include machinists, assemblers, and
metal workers. Is it any wonder miners
don’t want to continue NAFTA style policies of the Democrats?
Many in the media still underestimate Trump. His message of “Make America Great Again,’
resonates with many Americans who tired of what Obama did to undermine our
nation internationally and many feel Clinton helped promote that decline. Unlike Clinton, Trump is more compelling and
larger than life by comparison. Many see
her as frumpy and old which is one reason why she lost the younger vote to
Sanders.
As an independent I haven’t had this much fun watching a
political race in years. The last time I
was personally involved was when I a registered Libertarian and campaigned for Harry
Brown in 2000!
What I’ve learned in all these years is primarily two
things:
>Your vote in national elections really doesn’t matter
>We need to get big money out of politics and restore
real democracy back to the people
What do you think or you just another party member?
P.S. Many years
ago I served as an intern for Congressman Charles Vanik, a Democrat, and helped
Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton [before her passing] on occasion and although
I’ve written about politics for decades and have frequently been encouraged to
run for office, other than a stint as a city councilman, I’ve never held
office. I’m starting to wonder if
perhaps I should.
Yours for better living,
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
Resources
Americans Who Make More Than $100,000 Pay 80%
Of Federal Income Taxes
(Forbes): "When it comes to income tax, top earners really do pay more in
federal income taxes."
Sean Talks Credit: I Always Pay With a Credit
Card, and You Should, Too (Nerd Wallet): "Gone are the days when charging supermarket
purchases to your credit card signified impending financial disaster. We can
now pay for groceries with our credit cards — and earn 6% cash back — in peace.
It’s about time."
Stuck in a long airport security line? Take a
picture (CNN Money):
"Airlines for America, an airline industry group, is asking fliers to take
a picture of long security lines and post it on social media with the hashtag:
#iHatetheWait. The campaign, which launched last week, aims to get more TSA
resources to airports and alert other travelers of long wait times."
25 Essential Skills I Wish Somebody Taught Me
When I Was Younger
(Medium): "Life is like a game. Like a Super Mario game. But in
life, you are the character and you need to find your own 'mushrooms,' that
help you grow and excel."
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3 comments:
Very insightful and powerful statements which I think express many of our thoughts about this election...
When you look up the term “corrupt politician” in the dictionary, photographs of Bill and Hillary Clinton should be right there. Bill has a history of well documented sexual escapades that goes back for decades, and both of them should be serving long prison sentences for a shocking series of horrible crimes that goes all the way back to the 1970s. But the American people are willingly ignoring all of this, and if the election were to be held today it is almost certain that Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the United States.
What the Republican establishment failed to recognize was the total lack of confidence many of us have in the way they governed us-despite repeated polls showing our disdain for Congress!
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