As Ross Perot famously quipped at a presidential debate in 1992, "Bill Clinton is not qualified to manage a Walmart Store in a small town." And Perot was correct.
America's fondness for Business tycoons stretches back many generations. The Fords, the Rockefellers, J. Pee Morgan, Vanderbilt, so our infatuation with Donald J. Trump is natural. Sure he is a polarizing figure, he has opinions as we all do, some we can agree with and others we disagree. But the one thing Mr Trump has going for him in this election cycle which is hard wired against the establishment and incumbency is his seeming independence from monied interests which have an overwhelming influence on our political process and thwarted the will of the majority to serve the interests of the monied few.
Trump represents a tiny ray of hope out of the dark, dank cave of corruption our political system has become. Wisely, this current field of democrats and republicans knows not to bite the hands that feeds them and the pols know voters have no teeth, once they are elected. Never take a gum to a gun fight. Will of the people! Ha, ha, ha, ha. A joke amongst the insiders in the beltway.
Well, many voters have had enough of this insider's club promising voters one thing and delivering the monied interests something completely different. Hillary Clinton may just as well get a coin slot placed in her back because she is the quintessential pay for play pol in America today. Nothing is impossible if you have enough coin for the Clinton Foundation. The foundation is filled with bribes from high rollers who, for example, want to buy our uranium mines for a Russian interest but needed the State Department to sign off on the deal. Or block some third world African nation from regaining control of their natural resources. The corruption is sickening. And Donald Trump may shine the light on the back alley deals and put a stop to them? At least that is the hope.
I have long felt the corruption in Washington was a well kept secret, the House Banking scandal in the early 90's and the House Post office scandal led to the loss of majorities in both the house and the senate with the Gingrich revolution ending 40 years of democrat dominance. It seemed that only chased the corruption underground but it is leaking out again and this time we are talking about real smelly stuff. Solyndra, 5 billion dollars here for a useless Obamacare web site, half a million dollars to study why lesbians are over weight, and half a million to study the sexual character of glaciers, a couple of trillions to stimulate our deficit, and a politicized Justice Department and Treasury which should be dismantled and rebuilt with honest people.
The American worker and taxpayer are not getting their moneys worth. We now have government which feeds and grows itself at the expense of the citizens it has sworn an oath to protect and serve. The only protection is of itself and the only serving is its taking.
Trump represents what honest working Americans hope will be a turn towards more honest and thoughtful governance. A fresh pair of business eyes on the sausage factory that our government has become may be just the ticket to straightening out this mess we now find ourselves stuck with.
Trump has his work cut out for himself. He is hated by the vacuous worshipers of centralized government who cling to their shredded copies of the constitution and our bill of rights who live effortlessly off others people's hard work and industry.
"You work and I eat" is their mantra as they ride in luxury in the posh wagons pulled along by the few Americans remaining in the workforce. The workers have had a belly full of this.
Trump is the only reasonable hope for a way out of this nonsense.
I fear if Trump does not win, Hillary will have to build the wall to keep us in, not to keep the illegals out.
It will be that bad.
I am,
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
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