Trump vs.
Hillary: A Summation
By Paul Craig Roberts
August 24, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- The US presidential election this November will
tell whether a majority of the US population is
irredeemably stupid. If voters elect Hillary, we
will know that Americans are stupid beyond
redemption.
We don’t know much about Trump, and anti-Trump
propaganda rules in the place of facts.
But we know many facts about Hillary. We know about
her violation of classification laws and the refusal
of the Democratic administration to do anything
about it. The Democrats prefer to control the White
House than to enforce the law, another nail into the
coffin in which the rule of law in the US lies.
We know from their words and deeds and material
success that the Clintons are agents for Wall
Street, the Big Banks, the military/security
complex, Israel, agribusiness, and the extractive
industries. Their large personal fortune,
approximately $120 million, and the $1,600 million
in their foundation, much of which came from abroad
in exchange for political favors, attests to the
unchallengable fact that the Clintons are agents for
the oligarchy that rules America, indeed, that rules
the American Empire from Australia and Japan,
through North America and Western and Eastern Europe
to the Russian border.
We know that Hillary, like Bill, is a liar.
We know that Hillary is a warmonger.
We know that Hillary made the most irresponsible
statement ever uttered by a presidential candidate
when she declared the President of Russia to be the
“new Hitler,” thereby raising tensions between the
US and Russia to a higher level than existed during
the Cold War.
We know that Hillary is allied with the
neoconservatives and that her belief in the neocons’
ideology of US world hegemony is likely to result in
war with Russia and China.
All we know about Trump is that the oligarchs, who
sent America’s jobs overseas, who flooded the
country with difficult-to-assimilate immigrants, who
destroyed public education, who bailed out Wall
Street and the “banks too big to fail,” who
sacrificed American homeowners and retirees living
on a fixed income, who intend to privatize both
Social Security and Medicare, who have given the
public killer cops, relentless violations of
privacy, the largest prison poplulation in the
world, and destroyed the US Constitution in order to
increase executive power over the American people,
are violently opposed to Trump. This opposition
should tell us that Trump is the person we want in
the Oval Office.
Some claim that it is all a charade and that Trump
is playing a role in order to elect Hillary.
American politics are so corrupt that anything is
possible. However the ruling elites and their
puppets seem to be genuinely concerned about Trump’s
challenge to their control, and they have united
against Trump. They have used their money to buy up
“progressive” websites paid to bring the print and
TV anti-Trump propaganda onto the Internet, thus
joining the Internet presstitutes with the print,
TV, and NPR whores who are working overtime to
demonize Trump and to elect Hillary.
The entire power structure of our country is behind
Hillary. Both political parties, Democratic and
Republican, and both ideologies, neoliberals and
neoconservatives, are united behind Hillary.
How much more evidence do Americans need in order to
know that a vote for Hillary is a vote for their own
emasculation?
Apparently, Americans remain captives of their
insouciance. According to news reports, a majority
of voters still haven’t a clue about the
consequences of voting for Hillary. Polls report
that Hillary is well in the lead. Are these real
polls or just another presstitute lie to discourage
Trump supporters? Why vote when they have already
lost?
The propaganda assault against Trump, vicious as it
was, did not succeed during the Republican primary.
Despite the media condemnation of Trump, he swept
the other Republican candidates aside effortlessly.
The current media demonization of Trump might fail
as well. Indeed, it is so transparent that it could
elect him.
All that is required is for enough Americans to
awake from their insousiance to recognize that it is
the enemies of their own lives, their own living
standards, and their own liberty who are violently
opposed to Trump.
If Americans cannot reach this realization, they
have no future, and neither does the planet Earth.
The ruling oligarchy hates Trump because he disavows
war with Russia, questions the purpose of NATO,
opposes the offshoring of Americans’ jobs, and
opposes the uncontrolled immigration that is
transforming the United States into a multi-cultural
entity devoid of unity. The oligarchs are replacing
the United States with a Tower of Babel. Oligarchic
power grows exponentially among the confusion of
diversity.
In other words, Trump is for America and for
Americans.
This is why the oligarchs and their whores hate
Trump.
The imbecillic Americans who vote for Hillary are
voting for war and their own immiseration.
Possibly, a vote for Trump is the same. However, in
the case of Trump we do not know that. In the case
of Hillary we most certainly do know it.
Of course, it could matter not how Americans vote.
Those who program the electronic voting machines
will determine the vote, and as the establishments
of both political parties totally oppose Trump, the
programmed machines can elect Hillary. We know this
from our electoral history. The US has already
experienced elections in which exit polls show a
winning candidate different from the candidate
selected by the electronic machines that have no
paper trail and no way of affirming the vote.
If Hillary gets into the Oval Office, I predict
nuclear war before her first term is over. A vote
for Hillary is a vote for nuclear war.
If you look at the forthcoming election
realistically, you have no alternative but to
conclude that the entirety of the presstitute media
and American Establishment prefers the risk of
nuclear war to the risk of losing control of the
government to the voters.
That Americans permitted the rise of unaccountable
power tells us all we need to know about the
dereliction of duty of which United States citizens
are guilty. The American people failed democracy,
which requires accountable government. The American
government has proven that it is not accountable to
the US Constitution, to US statutory law, to
international law, or to voters.
If the result of Americans’ dereliction of duty is
nuclear war, the American people will be responsible
for the death of planet Earth. One would hope that
with responsibility this great on their shoulders,
the American people will reject the unequivocal war
candidate and take their chances on holding Trump
accountable to his words.
Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of
the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for
Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and
Creators Syndicate. He has had many university
appointments. His internet columns have attracted a
worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are
The Failure
of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution
of the West,
How America
Was Lost,
and
The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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