https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/mega-issue-one-party-system/

For the bottom-feeders at the shallow end of the human gene pool who still haven’t figured out that America has a one-party political system, the current presidential campaign circus should offer some insights. It is not just the Republican candidates who are going after Donald Trump on every occasion, so have the two Democratic candidates abandoned criticism of one another in favor of anti-Trump tirades. Why this is so is evident from what Trump’s popularity is about: a broadside against the policies, practices, and programs insisted upon by the owners of the political establishment. “Bipartisanship” (i.e., the non-questioning of what the owners consider to be in their elitist interests) is to be honored at all times. Boobus Americanus is expected to stagger into voting booths energized by such “issues” as Willie Horton’s parole, the “pledge of allegiance,” or whether candidate X had inadvertently expressed a politically-incorrect sentiment. Boobus may be gullible, but isn’t entirely brain-dead. In recent decades, he has voiced a desire for candidates who will “change” all of this, but to no avail. The billionaires and multi-millionaires who want no effective rumblings of discontent from within their fiefdoms, were initially annoyed by the candidacy of Ron Paul. But as Ron appealed to intelligent, rational minds, the rulers assumed there would be too few people who might thus be influenced to upset their well-organized racket. But on a more emotionally reactive level, Trump has been able to mobilize Boobus’s underlying frustrations. Neither the GOP nor the Democratic officialdom really grasp what Trump represents. They continue to appeal to the same taboos and articles of faith that have long driven those blessed and financed by the establishment. If Trump can be popularly envisioned as a speaker of political-incorrectness, or as a critic of the crony-capitalism upon which the establishment feeds, or as one who would pull the rug out from under the military-industrial-academic establishment that has controlled American foreign policy since the end of World War II, Boobus’s conditioned mind would cause him to reject Trump. Those who arrogantly assume their elitist authority to rule all of mankind seem to believe that, as they are escorted to a $353,000 per plate Hollywood fund-raising dinner, Boobus will be content to have a few coins tossed to him from the passing limos. The power-hungry just can’t seem to understand why, when all of the traditional criticisms have been offered of Trump, his popularity continues to expand.

For the record, I do not support Mr. Trump’s candidacy, nor will I break my 52 years of non-voting to join Boobus in a voting booth. I do enjoy the ruckus Trump has created – including watching the twits on the television “news” channels trying to express some understanding of the phenomenon without, in the process, endangering their employment. Why do I watch what has become this normally-neurotic behavior? H.L. Mencken answered that question with one of his own: “why do people visit zoos?”

3:35 pm on March 30, 2016

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