Meh. Didn’t watch it.<\/p>\n
The reactions on Twitter were the same, though. Trump isn’t expanding his base any, and neither is Hillary.<\/p>\n
Neither one of these two is a natural leader, and it shows. They’re still just oligarchs fighting turf battles.<\/p>\n
Trump hasn’t convinced people that he can do the things that he says he wants to if elected, and Hillary is… Hillary. She’ll try to represent her side of the country, but get nowhere because nobody who doesn’t support her already will ever trust her.<\/p>\n
So, there it is.<\/p>\n
They’re stuck, and it’s looking increasingly like they’ll stay stuck, forever, unless something bizarre and truly unexpected happens.<\/p>\n
So, now what?<\/p>\n
For me, if Trump gets elected, he’ll owe me. If he doesn’t, I won’t care, since I don’t much like him, frankly. If Hillary wins, she’ll owe me, too- I am well aware how much of the modern feminist movement came from me- and if she doesn’t, I won’t care for her, either.<\/p>\n
And…<\/p>\n
I see that the bogeyman of “ISIS” or “Islamic Terrorism” is still a thing, which just re-enforces my earlier hypothesis that the creation of “Islamic Terrorism” would be the death of the oligarchy. The problem is that the oligarchs don’t have a choice, anymore, but to attend to the real issues, since they are now so overwhelming. But they can’t, because they need to keep yapping about ISIS now. They’re caught in a bind. The military is bankrupting the government, and thus themselves, but they can’t leave the Middle East because of “ISIS”. So, the oligarchy has nowhere to go on that issue but down.<\/p>\n
I still believe that 9\/11 was the single biggest mistake any ruling class ever made in history. Having directly attacked the public like that, they’ll never be able to reconnect in any meaningful way ever again. Barring a miracle, they’re toast here in the US. The future for the US oligarchy lies elsewhere, if it’s lucky, or perhaps nowhere at all.<\/p>\n
I just want the damn election over with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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