Bill Elder

2016-08-02 23:26:21 -0400

Michael Mann commented -,“You don’t actually think Trump is going to win do you?”



I never make predictions until the ballots are counted – Trump has populist momentum – same as Sanders did. I believe that there enough voters in America who have awoken to the fact the political system has imprisoned them – put them on plantations of left or right which self serving political machines harvest votes when needed at election and ignored the rest of the time – they want candidates unattached to the political machines – they thought Sanders was one but surprise eh.



Trump is not a real republican, I think he sounds like a Kennedy Liberal – he’s independent, unbeholden, nationalist and very anti status quo – GOP oligarchs and Globalists hate him – so the jaded voter picks up on this and figures all the right people hate this guy, he must be OK.



But there is another elephant in the room – Class bigotry. Both GOP and Dem oligarchy really hold little people in contempt – they must have their lives run by us – they never listen to what their own supporters were saying about – say immigration, or Obama care, or the Fed and deficit financing, secure jobs – But Trump did. At least he’s paying lip service to these common concerns and ignoring the elitist flack for doing so.



He is a guy who tapped into mainstream working class concerns – he may be a boor and undiplomatic and narcissistic, but he has popular support – that wins elections.



The alternative is candidate dragging scandal luggage from the days in Arkansas to Benghazi who was under FBI investigation- and who personifies the political elite the mounting populist vote despises – not good optics from a populist perspective.



Frankly I think both these people will be a disaster in one way r another -but at least Trump is talking systemic economic reforms and this is what America needs right now.. Getting elected is the easy part – pulling off the reforms to the satisfaction of the electorate is the hard part;

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