Tuesday, April 12, 2016

All Outsiders Running

EVERYONE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT is an "outsider". They've never had any power, never belonged to anything, never been to Washington, nothing. Hillary doesn't push it quite that far, but she likes to portray herself as having been far, far away from the action when the damage was done, whenever and wherever that might have been. None of them were anywhere around, and therefore, they all give the promise of representing a fresh start, a fresh, clean approach. One of the best ways to get elected in the U.S.A., for some reason, is to advertise yourself as an outsider. As someone who stood against the forces of destruction when they rampaged through the land. It worked for Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, among others. Hillary, of course, is in bed with our Wall Street corporate masters, even as they oppress the rest of us. Trump didn't make it big without cozying up to people with clout,Ted Cruz is the ultimate traditionalist, and Bernie Sanders has been involved in public political affairs as an office holder for so long that he is never outside the system. Yet, they're all self proclaimed outsiders. this would be a great year for everybody still in the race to run in November, to give the American people four, rather than the usual two candidates. Sanders and Trump should both consider going it alone, starting their own political parties. Trump could represent a more secular, socially liberal free market conservatism. Bernie could usher in America's first enduring social labor party, like all civilized countries have. Let Cruz and Hillary carry the banner of the regular repubs and dems, and see what happens. Chaos is what will happen, the more the better. Revolutions require chaos, as a spark. It seems like all four of these characters claims to be an agent of real change, a real revolutionary. (Ted Cruz, "revolutionary"? don't make me laugh). Let's give them all a chance to strut their stuff all the way through the general election.

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