Tuesday, November 8, 2016

BloggeRhythms

The time for speculation's finally over as voters head for “real” polls to make their presidential choice today. 

As far as indications are concerned, Trump led  45% to 43%according to the final IBD/TIPP presidential tracking poll. The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times "Daybreak" poll shows him ahead 46.8% to 43.6%.

In terms of the electorate, what’s at stake for them can best be summed up by reiterating the YouTube interview mentioned here yesterday.  Actress Gina Rodriguez asked Obama: “Many of the millennials, Dreamers, undocumented citizens – and I call them citizens because they contribute to this country – are fearful of voting. So if I vote, will Immigration know where I live? Will they come for my family and deport us?” 

Obama responded: “Not true, and the reason is, first of all, when you vote, you are a citizen yourself. And there is not a situation where the voting rolls somehow are transferred over and people start investigating, etc. The sanctity of the vote is strictly confidential.”

Thus, in one short paragraph, the POTUS told voters all they need to know about him and his “legacy.” Because in his reply, he equated illegals to all those who came here properly, working to build what’s here for the past 240 years. And in that same response he thereby condoned burdening upstanding citizens with the responsibility and costs of supporting those here illegally, whereas the vast majority of them cannot sustain themselves sufficiently.     

Consequently, the POTUS’s concept of trading unbridled entry to the nation in exchange for votes has provided Trump with the opportunity to offer a very popular alternative. And in the process, as explained extremely well by Pat Buchanan @wnd.com: “Win or lose, Trump has emasculated ruling class.”

In his piece, Buchanan illustrates the probability of a continuing revolt by the Middle Class who visualize Trump as one who can return their nation to them, as follows:  

“Middle America believes the establishment is not looking out for the nation but for retention of its power. And in attacking Trump it is not upholding some objective moral standard but seeking to destroy a leader who represents a grave threat to that power. 

“Trump’s followers see an American Spring as crucial, and they are not going to let past boorish behavior cause them to abandon the last best chance to preserve the country they grew up in. 

“These are the Middle American Radicals, the MARs of whom my late friend Sam Francis wrote. 

“They recoil from the future the elites have mapped out for them and, realizing the stakes, will overlook the faults and failings of a candidate who holds out the real promise of avoiding that future. 

“They believe Trump alone will secure the borders and rid us of a trade regime that has led to the loss of 70,000 factories and 5 million manufacturing jobs since NAFTA. They believe Trump is the best hope for keeping us out of the wars the Beltway think tanks are already planning for the sons of the “deplorables” to fight.” 

Buchanan’s rationale is well-worth reading. Here’s a link: http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/win-or-lose-trump-has-emasculated-ruling-class/

What's most interesting is that a very similar analysis of the Middle Class’s present state came from none other than Bill Clinton  a year ago and serves as today’s update on his wife. 

Peter Hasson @dailycaller.com writes: “The economic stagnancy of the Obama years is to blame for plummeting life expectancy rates among white, working-class Americans, according to former president Bill Clinton, who privately told Democratic donors that lower-income whites “don’t have anything to look forward to when they get up in the morning.” 

“Clinton made the remarks while speaking to at a November 2015 closed-door fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in Canton, Ohio. 

“Echoing a theme of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign, the former president expressed his concern that white, working-class Americans have been left behind over the last eight years. 

“Clinton expressed his frustration with the most recent (at that time) Democratic debate, which he said lacked a single mention of the fact that “84 percent of the American people, after inflation, had not had a raise of 1 cent since the financial crash.” 

“And the gap between African Americans and whites is closing, but unfortunately not because the death rate among African Americans is dropping but because the death rate among white Americans is rising.” Clinton continued. 

“Why? Because they don’t have anything to look forward to when they get up in the morning. Because their lives are sort of stuck in neutral.”  

Consequently, this interpretation of the current plight of white, working-class Americans is also a condemnation of his own wife’s economic platform. Whereas she’s promised and pledged a continuation of Obama’s policy on the subject. 

And since, the probability is that Bill is absolutely correct in his assumptions regarding this segment of the voting public, it seems a shame that apparently Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, and Starbucks chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz haven’t been paying attention to these entry’s. Because, if they had, they would have been aware of the opportunity for voter appeal they never availed for themselves. 

That's it for today folks.      

Adios

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