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Title: The Horror of a Trump or Clinton Presidency
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Published: Jul 22, 2016
Author: Stephen Lendman
Post Date: 2016-07-22 11:55:17 by Stephen Lendman
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The Horror of a Trump or Clinton Presidency

by Stephen Lendman

America is a nation of leaders, not laws, ignored to serve their agendas, wreaking havoc at home and abroad - so-called checks and balances nonexistent.

All branches of government march in unison. Congress, the courts and tradition largely give presidents a free hand - notably on geopolitical issues, especially on war and peace.

Instead of enforcing law and order, they’re abandoned. Imperial priorities take precedence.

Policies Clinton and Trump endorse are more similar than different. Rhetoric and style largely separate them.

Presidents supporting Wall Street, war-profiteers, and other corporate favorites rule America - never a populist one in its history. Constitutional rights apply only for its privileged class.

Jeffersonian “pursuit of happiness” was code language for the right of privileged Americans to accumulate unlimited wealth and property, no matter the harm to others in the process, most struggling to get by.

Monied interests run things. Presidents, Congress and the courts serve them exclusively, they alone afforded justice, egalitarianism pure fantasy.

Trump or Clinton in power means continued horrors harming humanity like now, perhaps more grievously than ever, virtually certain under Killary - the most recklessly dangerous presidential aspirant in US history.

Endless imperial wars will continue under either candidate, Trump less likely to start WW III. He’d rather make money. She’s perhaps eager - her militancy terrifying anyone paying attention.

Both support New World Order predation, societies turned into democracy-free zones, the widening gap between super-wealth and increasing poverty, market fundamentalism, free-wheeling capitalism, profits over people, neoliberal harshness, Big Brother surveillance, mass incarceration, and police state terror targeting nonbelievers.

Inside the bubble is paradise, outside dystopian hell. America resembles Guatemala, thirdworldized for it privileged few, bipartisan gangsters running things, profiting at the expense of people they’re sworn to serve.

A new administration takes over in January, campaign promises straightaway forgotten like always, power politics replacing them - likely more Machiavellian than earlier.

Four more horrific years await no matter who succeeds Obama. Can humanity survive the onslaught?

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

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#1. To: Stephen Lendman (#0)

I am going to vote third party, my vote may not count, I may be wasting my vote BUT what the FRELL, it is MY VOTE

Darkwing  posted on  2016-07-24   11:00:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Stephen Lendman (#0)

Trump is sorta like a modern-day populist Barry Goldwater. OTOH, how did you like LBJ?? Hillary Clinton is the defective political offspring of LBJ, only with lower morals (if that's possible).

....at a Dover, N.H., campaign rally, a supporter introduced Clinton with the following line: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” passed the civil rights legislation.

The introduction was a clear reference to the Kennedy-Martin Luther King Jr.-Obama comparisons that were popular at the time. The Clinton campaign was in a war of words with Obama, trying to paint him as the optimistic dreamer with no real experience, compared with Clinton’s ability to get things done in the real-world trenches. Nevertheless, the suggestion that a prominent African American with national political aspirations might be assassinated struck many voters, especially African-American voters, as the worst kind of race-baiting from the Clinton campaign.

Oblivious to, or perhaps emboldened by, the introduction, Hillary Clinton doubled down on her role as the LBJ to Obama’s MLK and JFK in an interview with Fox News later on that same day.

“I would point to the fact that that Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done,” she said. “That dream became a reality; the power of that dream became real in people’s lives because we had a president who said we are going to do it and actually got it accomplished.”

African-American voters, political leaders and journalists were shocked and offended by Clinton’s comments. She and her supporters had glibly alluded to the assassination of Barack Obama to score political points, a Freudian slip that was missed by no one. This wasn’t just a dog whistle to conservative white voters; it was a blaring Klaxon to black voters to ward them off from supporting Obama lest something … terrible happened.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2016/01/jan_7_2008_the_day_hillary_clin ton_lost_the_black_vote/

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X-15  posted on  2016-07-24   12:49:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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