Rigging The System, Donald Trump Style

THE SYSTEM ("SYSTEM" means "society") IS RIGGED. We know this because Donald Trump says so, and Donald Trump never lies, unless he happens to be speaking. He never specifies the exact manner in which the rigging manifests; the Trumpster never specifics about anything. He pours the concrete, and lets the framers do the rest. Bernie Sanders is more specific. In his berigment paradigm, the elite wealthy one percent have disproportionate political power, because they purchase it. The wealthy elite, mostly conservative, donate huge amounts of money to political candidates, usually republicans, and in return expect those candidates, when elected by virtue of huge amounts of money spent on advertising,, to work to implement a political agenda favorable to the donors. The agenda usually includes, among other items, less government regulation of the economy, lower income taxes on the wealthy, and lower corporate taxes. Also, less environmental regulation, reduction of spending on social programs for the poor, low capital gains taxes, privatization of social security among other programs, including privatized health insurance, all of which are are opposed by a majority of Americans. None of these proposals benefits anyone but the wealthy, and only the wealthy have sufficient financial resources to aggressively advocate for them. Thus the wealthy constitute a special interest, seeking, successfully, to rig the system for its own benefit. This, specifically, is the manner in which the system is rigged, although Donald Trump probably doesn't think so. Who knows what he thinks? He supports most of these proposals. that Trump vaguely vaguely condemns some vague, unspecified systemic rigging even while supporting the actual rigging seems ironic, but not surprising. don't expect him to ever acknowledge his hypocritical dishonesty; he's too busy watching thousands of Muslims celebrate the destruction of the world Trade Center, and refusing campaign contributions from political action committees, or perhaps accepting them only with the greatest reluctance, because as he says: candidates who accept such contributions are bought, owned, and controlled by their donors, in a system he says is rigged.