Round four of the primary season has concluded in Nevada and the fields have been winnowed faster than I expected.
The Broadway-sized cast on the Republican side has been reduced to essentially three, with all “establishment” candidates out of the game. That is a shocking outcome of seismic proportions for the GOP, leaving two young under-experienced Senators (but what each has is more than the present occupant of the White House when he was running), and a businessman with no political experience who talks in fractured sound-bites and slogans, incapable of putting two compete and related sentences together (also reminiscent of the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave).
I predicted the Trump Political Apprentice Show would run out of steam as the process moved from preening prior to primary season to casting votes that matter in primaries and caucuses. That hasn’t happened in the early rounds involving small states. I still think the picture will change once the larger states begin to vote. Super Tuesday should result in a drastic change in the numbers, and especially in what matters most—the delegate counts. But what if the implausible becomes possible, even likely?
The alternatives on the Democrat side are an over-aged hippie/unrepentant socialist or a career political criminal (claiming to be an “outsider”) who lies with every sulfurous breath she exhales.
She continues to throw around the phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy” just like she and hubby did 25 years ago, deflecting that it was Obama who put the FBI hell-hounds on her tail. What they have found is damning, but the country will probably still elect this harridan from hell. I believe Biden will reappear on the scene on the off-chance Hilliary is actually indicted, the fake “sympathy card” already in place. He has been kept muzzled for a reason: to keep him out of sight to avoid his propensity of putting both feet in his mouth. The “moonshot” cancer mission that has the administration boldly going where others have gone before, a diversion to park him and keep him occupied but available to swoop in and save the day for the Democrats, and “protect the Obama legacy.” (barf)
I am angry. So are major portions of the electorate which is why four out of the five remaining genuine contenders are where they are and establishment candidates are not. What we are witnessing is a political primal scream* because our system has been corrupted beyond recognition and does not work. The failure is obvious, palpable, noxious, and quite possibly, fatal.
I am genuinely scared about our future as the country swirls around the toilet bowl, that final sucking sound of the flush nearly at hand…I am angry and embarrassed that these are the choices.
But what can I do? …
*The sentiment borrowed from ex-CIA/NSA Director Michael Hayden
