More push back from the GOP ranks
Wisconsin has yet to hold it’s primary elections for congressmen, senators, and assorted state offices.
The state is the home to the recently selected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (third in line to the presidency), Paul Ryan.
Mr. Ryan is quite the star in GOPe circles (e=establishment).He has gone all out in pushing Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership,
Politicians of such standing rarely face any kind of serious opposition in primary elections. This time around may be different.
Indiana Primary today
1. Looking like a healthy turnout today for primary voting in the state of Indiana.
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2. Harvard Law School Grad debates Working Class American [0:27]
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3. Should T’he Donald have a big victory in Indiana, it is likely that many will be looking get on board the Trump Train … before it leaves the station.
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Sucking Up Conventional Wisdom Syndrome
There are some, still, it seems, who really, really do believe everything they read in the papers. You can tell who these people are by the dazed look in their eyes at the mere mention of Trump.
These people are the suckers up of conventional wisdom. It is all they know, and all that they will ever know. When intelligent looking, and sounding, pundits smugly proclaimed that Trump was just flash in the pan, these people, these ‘suckers up of conventional wisdom,’ accepted that … often in some kind of weird self-congratulatory manner.
Then, of course, there are the others. Those who actually pay attention to what is going on ‘out there’ – on the ground – in the world … those who are not willing to let themselves in zombie like fashion fall prey to pundit-brainwashing.
These are the people who knew – and understood why – there was heaps and heaps of anger and frustration in the ranks of the citizenry … and who were not surprised at all when the Trump thingy took flight.
Sadly, however, sucking up conventional wisdom syndrome [SUCWS] may be incurable. So, today, these sufferers continue to buy into nonsense such as, ‘The reason Trump is doing so well is that all his followers are so dumb.
It’s all about the ‘middle’
Trumpism is about the American middle class.
And why are they, the middle income earners,’ turning to Trump?
“Thus again, we see the impact of the financialist globalization that has dominated the economy this past half-century. As a result, American investors and knowledge-workers have flourished mightily, while American laborers and wage-earners have suffered mightily. Meanwhile, below the middle class, the economic standing of the lower class — mostly the beneficiaries of entitlement programs and the welfare system — has stayed about the same. Why? Because while the floor underneath the middle class has been demolished by globalization, the floor under the poor has been maintained by government “
So, really, why …
... are the ‘establishment’ so very much concerned about the ‘political outsiders?’
The Washington D.C. metropolitan area has no major industries. Neither is it, like some other western capitals, the center of finance for the country. The DC economy is pretty much all about the federal government. Civil servants, government contractors, lobbyists abound. And yet, four of the top five counties for ‘household income’ are DC suburbs.
| County | Median Household Income | |
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| 1 | Loudoun County, Virginia | $115,574 |
| 2 | City of Falls Church, Virginia | $114,409 |
| 3 | Fairfax County, Virginia | $105,416 |
| 4 | Los Alamos County, New Mexico | $103,643 |
| 5 | Howard County, Maryland | $103,273 |
Q: What’s freakin’ out the anti-Trumpsters?
A: “We will no longer surrender this country, or its people, to the false song of globalism. The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony.” -Donald Trump, yesterday.
Prediction
Prior to the FBI’s recommendation to the Department of Justice that Hillary Clinton be, or not be, criminally indicted, HRC will announce that because of some nagging serious health concerns, she will be ending her campaign for the presidency, at which point President Barack Obama will issue a preemptive full pardon of her vis a vis her actions as Secretary of State, thereby bringing to a close the FBI’s investigation.*
*Or maybe not.
The ‘Trump Effect?’
Americans are known for various things: entrepreneurism, being insufferably full of themselves, openness, waistlines.
Also, unlike in many western nations, America is a place where, still, mostly, ‘nationalism‘ is not a pejorative … and ‘flag waving’ does not necessarily arouse suspicions of fascism.
Will the United States be the first western nation to experience a peaceful/non-violent, democratic populist push-back against the established order’s globalist agenda?
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