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Friday, October 14, 2016

Paul, Trump and Sanders Show Elite Control of Society Has Fractured

Republican Politicians Have Only Their Fears to Blame … In calls this morning, many Rs privately want to defect from Trump. But they say the debate gave them pause since he roused their base. … Remember, there were already an unusual number of high-profile Republicans who had broken with their own nominee, with many saying they would support Hillary Clinton and others just refusing to vote for Trump. Why did it take so long for the rejection to build? -Bloomberg

Bloomberg thinks rejecting Trump is an obvious choice for Republicans but this article doesn’t recognize the larger trend is to reject modern Republicanism itself.

This really started with the GOP’s removal of conservative libertarian candidate Ron Paul from political contention by intimidating his supporters and unilaterally changing and suspending rules. This sort of approach to non GOP-approved candidates has continued with Trump.

Ron Paul, who wanted to educate more than he wanted to win, was nonetheless squashed by a variety of evil and panicked GOP attacks. Donald Trump recast many of Ron Paul’s views but basically moved down Ron Paul’s political track and due to his celebrity and wealth succeeded where Ron Paul had failed.

Ron Paul was anti-tax, anti-central bank and anti-war. So is Trump, though Trump is closer to the elite mainstream than Paul. But the GOP leadership is pro-tax (though it pretends not to be) … also pro-central bank and pro-war.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Republican party is no longer conservative they have been sold out by Rinos (traitors) like McCaine and Paul Ryan.

Anonymous said...

Neither Democrats nor Republicans represent the People anymore. It's all about the cash, no matter the political stripes.

Anonymous said...

I left the republican party when they won the Senate and did nothing to stop our president.

Anonymous said...

Sanders was a total fraud should be ashamed at himself for targeting college. He knows how corrupt CLINTON is and wants us to vote for her. This is after he was shafted by DNC. Spineless sanders.