Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Reflections on the Apocalypse

Everyone should know by now that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump should be president of the United States.  Hillary belongs in prison and Trump belongs in a mental institution.  Hillary's election will allow Democrats to rewrite the Constitution and transform the Supreme Court into a liberal rubber stamp, giving the Democrats a permanent dictatorship.  Obama started the process, Hillary would finish it.  On the other side, nobody has a clue about what Trump would do as president.

Unfortunately, most Americans seem to think they have only two choices to vote for.  After all, how would they know other candidates exist?  The Republicans and Democrats, who control the televised debates, won't let Gary Johnson on the stage and the media won't provide the coverage of his candidacy they are obligated to do.

Gary Johnson has more experience as the chief executive of a governmental organization than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.  Both he and his VP candidate William Weld were elected and re-elected as governors in heavily Democratic states.  Gary Johnson has proven he can handle the job, and he isn't an arrogant elitist.  Most of all he isn't Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, and he is on the ballot in all 50 states.

Gary Johnson and the Libertarians are economically and fiscally conservative and socially liberal, which happens to be the same philosophy of the majority of Americans.  Johnson and Weld believe in our Constitution and the separation of powers.  They believe in limited government interference in private enterprise and support equal rights, equal justice, and equal opportunity.  They most definitely do not support the globalist platform of elitist eggheads controlling our lives by mandating politically correct rules and regulations denying our individual rights.  They do not think America should become involved in foreign conflicts, but also do not advocate the unilateral disarmament and dismantling of our ability to defend ourselves from terrorism and foreign aggression currently underway in the Obama administration.  Doesn't it make more sense to vote for someone who represents the views of the people rather than the inflexible, misguided agenda of the Republicans and the Democrats?

America cannot restore its liberty, justice, prosperity or social harmony under either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.  Hillary Clinton has declared she will double down on the disastrous policies and authoritarian administration of Barack Obama.  Donald Trump is, well, just nuts.  Gary Johnson offers a refreshing alternative.  He is exceedingly worthy of strong consideration, particularly given the unworthy candidates the two major political parties are offering.  He is a much better choice than a slithering snake or a pompous peacock.

It is now nut-crunching time.  Does anybody really want to see Hillary or The Donald on the front page of the newspaper every day for the next 4 years?  The leadership of the two dominant parties is corrupt, unproductive, indifferent to everyone but their political benefactors, and intent on maintaining the status quo rather than doing what is right.  Neither of them represent the American people.  They are bought and paid for by wealthy benefactors and special interest groups.  They have controlled our government for far too long.  It is past time for a change.

I refuse to believe that the majority of Americans are greedily self-centered enough to vote based on how much they can extort from our government at the expense of others; possess a psyche that is so fragile they must be protected from the opinions of others; believe that law enforcement personnel and every white person is racist; or have just lost their sanity.  Unfortunately, I could be wrong on all counts.  Something is very wrong in a country where either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump could be the next president.  We cannot survive the continuous polarization of our society.  It is time to get a grip.

I know that Gary Johnson has no chance of being elected president.  The fact that he doesn't is quite disturbing, and reflects the reality that we no longer have a functioning democracy.  So I understand the pressure to vote for Donald Trump in order to prevent Hillary from winning the election.  Hillary Clinton has been involved in criminally corrupt, diabolically dishonest, and deviously duplicitous activities throughout her more than three decades in the public arena.  Why would anyone vote for such a deplorable person who has never done anything favorable for the American people in any office she has held.

Personally, I am voting for Gary Johnson.  If Hillary wins the popular vote in Texas by one vote I will probably have to shoot myself.  Regardless, if anyone who reads this still feels compelled to vote for Hillary, it is vitally important to vote for Republicans in the congressional races.  If Hillary wins and the Democrats take either the Senate or the House of Representatives, this country is toast.  Even Democrats have to know that is true, at least the ones who haven't been totally brainwashed.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Government of the Insane

Only two weeks to go and American voters are faced with the following dilemma.  One presidential candidate is insane.  I don't think he even cares about winning the election.  It's all about the attention.  He craves it, but at the same time cannot abide criticism.  That is why he constantly says and tweets obnoxious responses to anyone who criticizes him, actions that further alienate any rational people in the voting public.

The other candidate is an extraordinarily corrupt, serial lying, influence peddling, rapacious arrogant elitist with no accomplishments that were beneficial to the American people in her years of public "experience".  She has been lying for so long she can no longer tell the truth.

Regardless, the American people are faced with the following question.  What is more rational - having a president who is insane or a whole political party that is insane?  We lived through 4 years of Jimmy Carter.  A Congress and a Supreme Court that does its job can prevent an insanely naive president from destroying the country.  But America is unlikely to survive twelve years of authoritarian politically correct progressivism.  The country cannot be saved if the whole government bureaucracy, from top to bottom, is insane.

Hillary has pledged to continue the insanity that is already in progress. For example -

1.  Unilateral disarmament and weakening the country's ability to defend itself against terrorism and foreign aggression.
2.  Alienating our traditional allies while appeasing and capitulating to our adversaries.
3.  Blaming law enforcement for enforcing the law.
4.  Claiming that government creates jobs and economic growth, not private enterprise and free markets.
5.  Doing nothing about entitlement programs that are bankrupting the country.
6.  Providing public support systems that discourage work and encourage dependency on government.
7.  Promoting an educational system that focuses on politically correct safe spaces and gender pronouns, denies students in the inner cities a quality education, and does nothing to prepare students for adulthood and real jobs.
8.  Arguing that the answer to every issue in America is to throw more money at it.

Free speech is already gone in America.  Conservative opinion is banned on college campuses, and people lose their jobs if they make a politically incorrect comment that may offend somebody, even though there is no law to not be offended.  Barack Obama and his Administration's bureaucrats make laws, rules, and regulations we all are supposed to comply with even though the power to make laws is vested in Congress by the very first section of the very first article of the US Constitution.  Democrats are eviscerating the Constitution and the Bill of Rights without the consent of the American people.  They won't stop until they have eliminated democracy altogether, if we are lucky enough to still be around.