Going Full Whig

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Published : February 29th, 2016
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Hillary’s dumb riposte to Trump’s dumb slogan — make America great again! — was “…America never stopped being great.” I guess she’s been traveling around the strip-mall wastelands of Carolina failing to notice the carnage that lays upon this land like a mortal scrofula. America has been committing suicide by bad choices for decades.

We took the collateral winnings of World War II and poured it into a suburban sprawl alt-universe so depressing that our citizens are the most over-medicated people in the world. That alone might help to explain how Hillary and Trump lumber inevitably toward their respective nominations. The cheering “folks” marshaled out in the Piggly Wiggly parking lots are so buzzed on Klonopin and Zoloft that they can’t tell how these two odious celebrities epitomize the very forces behind their pharmaceutically-masked despair.

A nation sunk in such falsity is sure to suffer life-threatening blowback and it looks like the first thing to go will be the life of the political parties. Both Democrats and Republicans have gone full Whig, riding into the 2016 election on the garbage barge of history. Hillary went on hyper-gloat after last week’s South Carolina primary, where she stuffed her pander-bag with black votes reaped on empty promises to re-boot the Civil Rights era. It was painful to watch that get-me-outa-here smile stretched across her face as she hugged the last selfie-snapper and slouched toward the ordeal of Super-Tuesday.

I don’t care how many primary victories Trump racks up, the GOP poobahs will not support him going into the convention. They will crack the party up into warring factions before they let him hoist the gonfalon of Lincoln and the Gipper. Be warned: plans are already afoot to shove Trump aside, to derail him with some scandal easily excavated from a life spent greasing other pols and playing ball with the mob-riddled construction industry in New York, Jersey, and Nevada. Failing that, they’ll leave him with a gutted shell of the party apparatus and by-hook-or-crook get some other figure to make a well-funded run under a slightly altered  banner: Paul Ryan, Bloomberg, Romney, just maybe Kasich. The Koch brothers will organize the money mojo. Failing that, there is always the mysterious magic of the Deep State for winning friends and influencing history.

This is not to endorse the old Republican establishment, just saying that they are increasingly desperate to derail this monster of their own creation, and will go to institutionally suicidal lengths to get it done. It will be more than another election cycle, if ever, before the right-of-center portion of the US political spectrum can realign itself into something resembling party.

Or perhaps this is America’s true imperial moment, when all party politics surrenders to the pre-tsunami undertow of events. None of the idiot network commentators or Wash-Po or NY Times columnists seem to notice that the global economy is sinking into a coma, and in so doing is igniting cluster-bombs of default through the financial system. That so far insidious destruction should effloresce exactly around the time of the nominating conventions. The tide will have visibly gone miles out just as Hillary mounts the podium like some bad joke of a national mommy and Trump sits fretting in his Cleveland hotel room wondering how his rococo dreams of glory turned into a shit sandwich from room service. Yeats’s widening gyre is upon us. The biggest surprise of all yet-to-come is that television will fail to explain it. The second coming will not be the reappearance of the celebrity known as Jesus Christ, but rather of the event called the American Civil War.

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James Howard Kunstler has worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. His nonfiction book, "The Long Emergency," describes the changes that American society faces in the 21st century. Discerning an imminent future of protracted socioeconomic crisis, Kunstler foresees the progressive dilapidation of subdivisions and strip malls, the depopulation of the American Southwest, and, amid a world at war over oil, military invasions of the West Coast; when the convulsion subsides, Americans will live in smaller places and eat locally grown food.
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The people supporting Trump, Cruz, Carson are the same people who would fight a civil war against Hitlery, Barry Obongo, Black Lives Matter, La Raza, college radicals and assorted filth and dirtbags.
If there is a civil war it would in my opinion result in the more conservative warriors garnering a victory that would lead to a modern day Caesar or a Pinochet which would be a lot better than what the Democrats would install if the entitlement state got off its ass long enough to complete something other than a can of beer or a joint, which is not likely.
Regardless, we have Trump leading precisely because Boehner and McConnell lied to their base over and over to the point no one with any dignity could support them any longer. Ryan then demonstrated his stand with an homage to McConnell where he twisted the knife pushing through the gigantic spending bill funding everything on the list of the base's most hated programs.
Whigged out indeed.
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James, you have ALMOST a full understanding of the situation; it's just that you're putting the chicken before the egg. The Republican (really, the ONE Party with two heads) ESTABLISHMENT already knows, in fact ~ caused ~ the Financial Crisis currently underway. They've known this end was coming FOR YEARS. The Republican Establishment threw Trump out there as a DIVERSION ~ then disavowed him ~ to throw you (and looks like everyone but me) off their track. Scapegoat Hillary was Plan A while scapegoat Trump was Plan B.

The Civil War will arrive because of the Financial Crash caused by The Elites. The SCAPEGOAT reason for the Civil War will be either the attempted crushing of the Trump Tidal Wave or (once Trump is elected) it will be blamed on the failures of the Trump Presidency. (That's interchangeable with the Hillary Presidency.) The Elites don't want any trail leading everyone to their doorstep ~ carrying clubs and pitchforks. Glad I could help Brother.
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The people supporting Trump, Cruz, Carson are the same people who would fight a civil war against Hitlery, Barry Obongo, Black Lives Matter, La Raza, college radicals and assorted filth and dirtbags. If there is a civil war it would in my opin  Read more
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