Posted on 11/14/2016 2:28:58 PM PST by Lorianne
The election demonstrated perhaps better than ever, and better than has been generally recognized, that America is, indeed, a plutocracy. It took a genuine American oligarch, a self-proclaimed billionaire, a man with a lifetime’s economic empire-building, to defeat a family which could provide the very definition of being politically well-connected, a family which had laboriously constructed and carefully maintained a kind of deep well ever-flowing with money for their ambitions. It was the ever-flowing well of money, drilled by Bill Clinton with help from some extremely shady friends, such as Jeffrey Epstein, that made the Clintons keystone establishment figures in the Democratic Party. It was not personal charm or exceptional political generalship – although Bill, in his heyday, displayed some of both of those – that earned the Clintons their place, it was the money, the “mother’s milk of politics.” In what is euphemistically called “fund raising,” many hundreds of millions of dollars were provided for the party over the last couple of decades by Bill Clinton’s efforts.
Hillary Clinton fully appreciated the fact that money buys power and influence. She lacked Bill’s superficial charm, but she certainly more than shared his ambition. On the charm front, when she was ready to move into running for office, she adopted, perhaps under Bill’s tutelage, a kind of forced set of expressions with arched eyebrows, bugged-out eyes, and a smile as big as her lips would allow. These expressions were accompanied by little gestures such as briefly pointing to various onlookers or waving helter-skelter whenever she campaigned.
Her gestures reminded me of something you might see atop a float in a Christmas Parade or of the late Harpo Marx at his most exuberant. These were not natural for her. They were never in evidence years ago when she spent years as a kind of bizarre executive housewife, both in a governor’s mansion and later in the White House, bizarre because she indulged her husband’s non-stop predatory sexual behavior in exchange for the immense power it conferred on her behind the scenes over her far more outgoing and successful politician-husband.
Money Talks
Anyway, Hillary knew that gestures and simulated charm do not get you far in American politics. She determined to build a political war chest long ago, and there are many indications over the years of her working towards this end of making this or that change in expressed view, as when running for the Senate, when sources of big money suggested another view would be more acceptable. She was anything but constant in the views that she embraced because when she ran for the Senate she spent record amounts of money, embarrassingly large amounts.
SNIP
Democracy:
Three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner................
“Democracy Turns Off Millennials.”
Good.
Now, if they were turned off by a Republic, I’d be more concerned.
Or a collection of bobble-head dolls at Yankee Stadium's Gift Shop............
Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
- James Madison (1751 - 1809)
https://madison.thefreelibrary.com/
Now maybe we will find out what’s wrong with that woman.
18 to 21+ years of brainwashing won’t go away easily.
The headline here should state that Democracy turns off SOME millenials. There are plenty of voters from 18-30 that are on the Trump train, and I think they will be very pleased to see a real democracy and competent administration in action.
The crybaby leftists are now attacking the Electoral College, claiming Hillary “won” the popular vote. In fact, we’ll never know who won the popular vote, because countless absentee ballots weren’t even opened after their state was called. Besides, RATS steal millions of votes every election. Recent reports say up to 4 million illegals voted. Subtract that from Hillary’s total and Trump won the popular vote by 3 and a half million, not even considering all the RATS other cheating.
They like it okay except for the part where they don’t always get what they want.
He was into this election like NEVER before, and freaking out ecstatic that Trump won.
It's just damn lazy for the press / commentators / whomever to use "millenials" as a pejorative.
They are wrong to do that, because it will come back to bite them. As clinton found out, there are PLENTY of millenial deplorables.
Wonder what the Saudi's will do about their losses....
Is he kidding? I've never even heard of a human being so totally devoid of anything remotely resembling "charm" as Hillary. "Charm" from Hillary would be her exercising self-restraint and not throwing an ashtray at your head.
She's obviously full of self-loathing for prostituting herself in a demeaning sham of a marriage for what? To simply be able to stand in the shadow of an equally miserable excuse of a husband?
I'll bet right about now she's really hating her life. She sacrificed her dignity for money.
I would imagine bitter lying old hags would turn them off more than democracy.
That will be difficult. There is no democracy in America, we are a representative republic.
For 20 years they were given participation awards, there were no winners, there were no losers, they have just found out there are winners and losers
Democracy is inferior anywise.
Bring back lords and kings.
It's darn hard to chose a favorite, isn't it?
I think mine are the way Hillary repeatedly nods her head up and down in affirmation of everything she says and then applauds at her own statements.
Kind of like a clapping Mortimer Snerd bobble head that goes:
"Yup, yup, yup, I'm right again!"
Attempting to use facts in dealing with the “but muh feelz!” crowd is foolish.
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