The Way We Are Now

• *The Democratic party is a looney bin and the Republican party is a con game with an unbroken record of insincere promises. Welcome to the 2020 election.
• It is a simple and plain fact that by the established standards of international law, George W. Bush, his handlers and accomplices are war criminals. Like the Nazis who were executed and imprisoned. Since their criminal acts caused the loss of much American life and treasure, they are also traitors—a judgment which the Founding Fathers would make immediately.
• I can believe that Donald Trump genuinely wants to do good for his people and country. That puts him miles ahead of most other politicians. Unfortunately, he has the soul of a salesman rather than a statesman. I do not think he even yet understands the nature of the Deep State and why they have pulled out all the stops to destroy him. He takes it as personal rather than as an ideological war.
• Trump may not have Made America Great Again (whatever that means), but he is certainly the best president Israel ever had. I don’t know about you, but that was not a high priority on my mind when I voted for him.
• The pandemic is helping us to get to know our people better. Look at how many so happily obey illegal government orders. Look at how many (200,000 by one estimate) are eagerly reporting their neighbours and fellow citizens to the authorities for supposed violations of quarantine. Consider how suddenly irrelevant constitutional guarantees of liberty have become. And we still wonder how murderous totalitarians took over Germany and Russia.
• And look at how the crisis has revealed how useless and incompetent government agencies are that consume billions of dollars and employ thousands of people. We did not learn that truth from 9/11 and I suppose we will not learn it now. The likely outcome of the crisis is that the bureaucrats will be given more money and power.
• How will History see President Obama? Probably as a bit of a puzzle. He was elected Senator without ever having done anything, and then quickly elected President without ever having done anything. Then got the Nobel Prize without ever having done anything. He was touted as the first African American president although he was not really an African American in the usual sense. Supposed to reduce racial tensions in American society, he actually intensified them. As President, it will be observed that he was merely a caretaker, preserving the crimes and mistakes of George W. Bush.
• How will History see Joe Biden? It is too soon to tell. If he is elected he will not be very high in the presidential ratings. Like Bill Clinton he is the perfect psychopathic politician, though not nearly so good at it. He presents a plausible front but has never done anything for anybody except himself, not counting sending other people’s money to his constituents to get re-elected. He is intellectually shallow, unable to say anything not pre-constructed by others. Senility is not likely to make him any better but will be a perfect opportunity for handlers to step in with their own agenda. As was the usually disastrous case with weak leaders in the past.
• Want to understand who the real rulers are in our “American democracy”? It has little to do with elections or with the politicians on television. The real rulers may be identified as those who get the most benefit from the government and almost always get their way. (Or, to put it another way, the real rulers are those with enough money to buy Congresspersons.) Take the recent epidemic relief bill, passed unanimously by Congress and both parties: $2 billion to be dispersed for temporary relief to the people, most of whom will never recover from months of lost work. $8 billion for the Banksters, who allegedly are necessary for our prosperity and are Too Big to Jail. The 1% will get ever richer and have even more control over the wealth of American society. This has been “American democracy” since Lincoln. But there are no longer enough real citizens around to notice and most don’t care as long as they are reasonably prosperous. In hard times they turn to their real rulers for relief.
• It would appear that some of the acclaimed newly appointed Republican Supreme Court Justices are turning out to be a bit wobbly. Not in the least surprising since they are Federalist Society products who know no more about the real Constitution than do the leftists.
• The Republicans are counting on electoral help from the old idea that the Democrats are “socialists,” which still seems to work with many of their voters. Socialism is government control of the economy. We already have it. The only question is who exercises and benefits from this control. Certainly not the “proletariat.”
• At least, there is one good thing to look forward to in the 2020 election: we will not have the Republicans urging us to vote for the Lesser Evil, as they so often have done in the past.